Energy decentralization in South Africa: Why past failure points to future success

A Lawrence - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
South Africa's energy transition has stalled on two related fronts: its rollout of renewable
energy (RE) sources has suffered interruptions and delays, proceeding too slowly; and its …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative study of women environmental defenders' antiviolent success strategies

D Tran - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
This research advances knowledge on the understudied topics of violence against women
and their contributions to ecological movements through a multiple case study analysis of 25 …

Irregular connections: Everyday energy politics in Catalonia

J Angel - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
While questions of energy and energy transition have become hotly contested, the abstract
and fetishized conception of energy that dominates contemporary political debates occludes …

[图书][B] South Africa's Energy Transition

A Lawrence, J Ballard - 2020 - Springer
South Africa is typical among major fossil fuel producers for having failed to substantially
transition toward renewable energy (RE) sources. Like many other countries, it shows a …

Tokenism in South African social policy

P Bond - Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern …, 2014 - muse.jhu.edu
South Africa's welfare state expansion is said to be one of the leading 'social democratic'
achievements of the post-apartheid era. However, overwhelmingly tokenistic features …

[PDF][PDF] Economic promises and pitfalls of South Africa's World Cup

P Bond, E Cottle - South Africa's World Cup: A legacy for whom, 2011 - ccs.ukzn.ac.za
What were the costs and benefits of hosting soccer's great festival? Economic consultants
like Grant Thornton1 and KPMG2 issued one rosy report after the other prior to, during, and …

[PDF][PDF] Reconfiguring electricity infrastructures in Accra and Cape Town: Understanding the political ecologies of networked urbanism

J Silver - 2013 - etheses.dur.ac.uk
This thesis explores the relationships between emerging intersections of climate and energy
agendas in cities and how these responses are being materialised across networked …

Amandla! Awethu! Energy, infrastructure, rights, services

J Wenzel - Interventions, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This essay compares the role of energy infrastructures and electricity in social protest during
and after the apartheid era in South Africa. The struggle against apartheid produced both a …

The urban governance of climate change: A comparative socio-institutional analysis of transformative urban responses to climate change in Durban (South Africa) and …

ACE Aylett - 2011 - open.library.ubc.ca
This dissertation investigates the socio-political dynamics of urban attempts to address
climate change in a systemic, rather than project-based or piecemeal, fashion. It focuses on …

South African social policy 'tokenism'as austerity grips

P Bond - Africanus, 2016 - journals.co.za
The South African government's mandate was to transform state social policy and correct
historic class, racial, gendered and other injustices. The main design patterns of economic …