Shocks, Burnouts, and Outages: Chronicles of Modern Energy for All - Livestream
Vero’s work explores how “modern energy for all" - the internationally-supported goal to increase electricity access - came to be touted as a primary means of poverty alleviation in the Global South. Despite outsized amounts of money and support, electricity development goals have been largely unrealized and huge disparities in electricity production and reliability persist worldwide. Nevertheless, low-income residents, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and south Asia, are tacitly understood to be “able to cope†or fortunate in spite of poor quality and expensive access - because “a little goes a long way.†Simultaneously, these same users are being partially blamed for failing electrical systems - accused of not consuming enough or unwilling to pay for the service. In an attempt to move past these oversimplified, prescriptive narratives, Vero’s work develops a detailed ethnographic account of the benefits, responsibilities, and burdens on offer within, unreliable and unaffordable electricity access. Her work raises ethical and political questions around the future of energy development in the Global South.
Speaker: Veronica Jacome
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Wednesday, 09/30/20
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