Outputs (2)

'Candles are not bright enough': Inclusive urban energy transformations in spaces of urban inequality (2021)
Book Chapter
Caprotti, F., Phillips, J., Petrova, S., Bouzarovski, S., Essex, S., de Groot, J., Baker, L., Reddy, Y., & Wolpe, P. (2021). 'Candles are not bright enough': Inclusive urban energy transformations in spaces of urban inequality. In M. Keith, & A. de Souza Santos (Eds.), African Cities and Collaborative Futures: Urban Platforms and Metropolitan Logistics (121-142). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526155351.00012

In this chapter, we discuss the key issue of how to envisage a just, fair and equitable energy transformation in the South African context. We argue that the move towards a new energy landscape cannot simply be described as a transition, but more acc... Read More about 'Candles are not bright enough': Inclusive urban energy transformations in spaces of urban inequality.

The materiality of precarity: Gender, race and energy infrastructure in urban South Africa (2021)
Journal Article
Phillips, J., & Petrova, S. (2021). The materiality of precarity: Gender, race and energy infrastructure in urban South Africa. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 53(5), 1031-1050. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X20986807

Analysis of precarity has offered a critique of labour market experiences and politically induced conditions of work, housing, migration, or essential services. This paper develops an infrastructural politics of precarity by analysing energy as a cri... Read More about The materiality of precarity: Gender, race and energy infrastructure in urban South Africa.