Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid: Geographies of the Electric City

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Synopsis
Providing a global overview of experiments around the transformation of cities' electricity networks and the social struggles associated with this change, this book explores the centrality of electricity infrastructures in the urban configuration of social control, segregation, integration, resource access and poverty alleviation. Through multiple accounts from a range of global cities, this edited collection establishes an agenda that recognises the uneven, and often historical, geographies of urban electricity networks, prompting attempts to re-wire the infrastructure configurations of cities and predicating protest and resistance from residents and social movements alike. Through a robust theoretical engagement with established work around the politics of urban infrastructures, the book frames the transformation of electricity systems in the context of power and resistance across urban life, drawing links between environmental and social forms of sustainability. Such an agenda can provide both insight and inspiration in seeking to build fairer and more sustainable urban futures that bring electricity infrastructures to the fore of academic and policy attention.
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
222 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317143550
Related ISBNs:
9781138546837, 9781472449009, 9781315579597
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Andrés Luque-Ayala and Jonathan Silver
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Andres Luque-Ayala
Edited by:
Jonathan Silver

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