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Co-production of access and hybridisation of configurations: a socio-technical approach to urban electricity in Cotonou and Ibadan

International journal of urban sustainable development, 2022-12, Vol.14 (1), p.180-195 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. 2020 ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 1946-3138 ;EISSN: 1946-3146 ;DOI: 10.1080/19463138.2020.1780241

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  • Title:
    Co-production of access and hybridisation of configurations: a socio-technical approach to urban electricity in Cotonou and Ibadan
  • Author: Rateau, Mélanie ; Jaglin, Sylvy
  • Subjects: access to electricity ; Architecture, space management ; Co-production ; Cotonou ; Geography ; Humanities and Social Sciences ; hybridisation ; Ibadan ; sub-Saharan Africa ; urban electricity configuration
  • Is Part Of: International journal of urban sustainable development, 2022-12, Vol.14 (1), p.180-195
  • Description: The article examines the dynamics of access to electricity in two West African cities: Cotonou (Benin) and Ibadan (Nigeria). Due to poor supply from the grid, households are developing varied ways of accessing electricity, based on different socio-technical dispositifs. In this paper we first demonstrate that access to electricity is based on co-production processes that must be approached from a multi-scale perspective (from the household to the urban scale). We then argue that particular attention to the socio-technical and spatial dimension of co-production arrangements makes it possible to interpret urban electrical configurations and their evolution. We thus show that co-production processes, relying on many actors and technologies to meet a growing and diversified demand for electricity in cities, support an ongoing movement of extension-hybridisation of electricity configurations on an urban scale, thus offering an interesting perspective on power changes in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1946-3138
    EISSN: 1946-3146
    DOI: 10.1080/19463138.2020.1780241
  • Source: HAL SHS: Archive ouverte en Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (Open Access)
    Taylor & Francis Open Access
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