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来源

URBAN STUDIES,Vol.56,Issue6,P.1250-1266

语言

英文

关键字

access; agglomeration; urbanisation; development; electricity; infrastructure; networks; poverty; exclusion; ENERGY; POLITICS; POVERTY; KISUMU; CITY; STS

作者单位

[Smith, Shaun] Univ Sheffield, Urban Inst ICOSS, 219 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP, S Yorkshire, England. Smith, S (reprint author), Univ Sheffield, Urban Inst ICOSS, 219 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP, S Yorkshire, England. E-Mail: shaun.r.smith@sheffield.ac.uk

摘要

This article examines electricity access in Kisumu and Kitale, Kenya, through the mediation of land tenure relations. Despite a reported rapid expansion of formal network connectivity, various everyday practices have emerged, including piecemeal electricity purchase and communal meter sharing, which mean electricity access is controlled and mediated at various social scales. It is argued that such practices represent hybridised forms of electricity access and that landlord-tenant relations alter the socio-technical electricity network and how access is lived and experienced.