Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid

Andrés Luque-Ayala is a Lecturer at Durham University’s Geography Department. His research examines the emergence of a local governance of energy and the interface between urban infrastructures, climate change and development modes in the global South. Jonathan Silver is a postdoctoral research associate at Durham University’s Geography Department. His research works at the intersection of urban infrastructure, politics and socio-environmental inequality.

1. Introduction

(Andrés Luque-Ayala and Jonathan Silver)

Part 1: The Uneven Geographies of Urban Energy Networks

2. The American South: Electricity and Race in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 1900-1935
(Conor Harrison)

3. Plovdiv: (De-)racialising electricity access? Entanglements of the material and the discursive

(Rosalina Babourkova)

Part 2: Rewiring the Urban Grid

4. Rio de Janeiro: Regularising favelas - energy consumption and the making of consumers into customers
(Francesca Pilo)

5. Delhi: Questioning urban planning in the electrification of irregular settlements
(Laure Criqui)

6. Maputo: Fluid flows of power and electricity - Prepayment as mediator of state-society relationships

(Idalina Baptista)

Part 3: Social Movements and Protest in the Electric City

7. Berlin: Cooperative power and the transformation of citizen’s roles in energy decision-making
(Arwen Colell and Luise Neumann-Cosel)

8. Beirut: Metropolis of darkness and the politics of urban electricity grids

(Eric Verdeil)

9. Barcelona: Municipal engineers and the solar guerrillas
(Anne Maassen)

10. Athens: Switching the power off, turning the power on - Urban crisis and emergent protest practices
(Georgia Alexandri and Venetia Chatzi)