Energy bricolage in Northern Uganda: Rethinking energy geographies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Energy bricolage in Northern Uganda: Rethinking energy geographies in Sub-Saharan Africa
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乌干达北部的能源拼凑：重新思考撒哈拉以南非洲的能源地理
DOI：
10.1016/j.erss.2019.04.016
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
Anne L. Bartlett
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作者：
P. Munro;Anne L. Bartlett
在这篇文章中，我们提出了“能源套餐”的想法，作为重新思考撒哈拉以南非洲人们如何实现日常能源需求的一种方式。通过这样做，我们直接挑战联合国和其他发展机构对非洲能源贫困的主要框架，这些机构倾向于将这一问题描述为获得电网的问题；能源贫困是由于无法获得大规模基础设施而产生的。借鉴乌干达北部的研究，我们展示了非洲的家庭和个人是如何被理解为棕榈树的，他们创造性地和足智多谋地利用手头的任何材料，试图实现他们的能源需求和愿望。他们从事着复杂的能源领域：用电池做手电筒，用光伏发电给手机充电，用音响做音响，用柴火做饭，用木炭卖东西，用汽油运输。从这个意义上说，除了像电网和电力接入这样的现代主义能源发展概念之外，他们还能够创造出一种后现代能源格局，一种既不“传统”也不“现代”的能源格局，而是不同社会和经济进程的零散产物。我们认为，能源分类的这一概念使我们能够以更微妙的视角来理解撒哈拉以南非洲和其他发展中国家的能源贫困的地理位置。我们将能源贫穷者的观点重新定义为勉强维持前现代生活的勉强糊口的人口，转变为与不同且不断变化的能源技术和制度安排有着复杂纠葛的人。
In this paper, we propose the idea of ‘energy bricolage’ as a way of rethinking how people in Sub-Saharan Africa realise their energy needs on a daily basis. In doing so, we directly challenge dominant framings of energy poverty in Africa by the United Nations and other development agencies that have tended to present the issue as a question of access to the electricity grid; that energy poverty emerges from a lack of access to large-scale infrastructure. Drawing on research from Northern Uganda, we show how households and individuals in Africa can be understood as bricoleurs, making creative and resourceful use of whatever materials at are at hand to try and realise their energy needs and desires. That they engaged in complex geographies of energy: using batteries for torches, photovoltaic power for phone charging and stereos, firewood for cooking, charcoal for selling and petrol for transport. In this sense, beyond the modernist conceptions of energy development as grid electricity access, they are able to craft post-modern energy landscape, one that is neither ‘traditional’ nor ‘modern,’ rather the fragmented product of different social and economic processes. We argue that this conception of energy bricolage allows us to bring a more nuanced perspective for understanding the geographies of energy poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the developing world. We reframe the view of the energy poor as subsistence population eking out pre-modern lives, to one that has complex entanglements with different and changing energy technologies and institutional arrangements.
影响因子：
3.2
作者：
Branch, Adam
通讯作者：
Branch, Adam