09:00 - 10:30
The Political Economy of Drives toward Universal Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa
Oral session
Room: Aston Webb – C-Block Lecture Theatre
Stream: The Political Economy of Development in Africa: The Politics of Economic and Social Transformation
Chair/s:
Barnaby Dye, Ivan Cuesta-Fernandez
Discussant/s:
Filippo Menga
09:00 - 09:15
Th-A49 Politics of Transformation 13-P-001
Electric Scrambles in Rwanda and Tanzania: ‘Meta-unrealism’ in the Megawatt Mission?
Barnaby Dye
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
09:15 - 09:30
Th-A49 Politics of Transformation 13-P-002
Problematic elements in Maputo’s energy transitions: precarity, autonomy and modernisation in the energy landscape
Shaun Smith, Vanesa Castán Broto
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
09:30 - 09:45
Th-A49 Politics of Transformation 13-P-003
On citizenship, off-grid
Jon Phillips
University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom