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

ISBN-13: 9781472449009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 222 str.

Andres Luque-Ayala;Jonathan Silver

Opis

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.

Recenzje

’Urban studies has switched on to energy at long last. In Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid, Luque-Ayala and Silver have gathered together a dynamic group of young scholars and an exciting array of case studies from across the global urban landscape which advance our knowledge of the inequalities, infrastructures and indignations through which energy comes to matter in the urban arena. From everyday encounters with wires, meters and generators to the assembling of resistances and alternatives, the electricity grid is shown to be highly charged with political power and possibility.’ Jonathan Rutherford, LATTS, Paris Est University, France