Urban Infrastructure and Energy Poverty in Maputo, Mozambique

Salazar, Diana; Broto, Vanesa Castán; Adams, Kevin

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-47354-7_14

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“…and other ‘climate‐friendly’ innovations in some cities might end up creating new and exacerbating existing landscapes of environmental degradation and toxicity in other locations. In Maputo, large programmes to deliver improved cookstoves have failed to understand the enduring cultural relevance of charcoal as a source of energy in poorer neighbourhoods, highlighting a disjuncture between solutions that are supposed to deliver climate mitigation and health co‐benefits and local socio‐cultural practices (Salazar et al ., 2017). Beyond infrastructures, other analytical categories such as ‘finance’ and ‘politics’ can be redefined through a situated analysis of climate action happening below‐the‐radar.…”

Section: Situating Climate Urbanismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Postcolonial Perspective on Climate Urbanism

Robin¹,

Broto²

2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The growing interest in urban areas as sites for climate action has led to new ways of conceiving and planning the urban. As climate actions reshape existing understandings of what cities are or ought to be, they constitute new modalities of what recent scholarship has referred to as ‘climate urbanism’. This research has framed climate urbanism as a climate‐inflected iteration of neoliberal urban development, geared towards the mobilization of ‘green’ private capital for large‐scale infrastructural projects, focused on carbon metrics, and conducive to population displacement through eco‐gentrification. In this intervention, we commend these efforts to deliver a critical perspective on how climate change gives rise to forms of urbanism that reproduce urban injustices without addressing the root causes of the climate crisis. However, we warn against two biases in recent scholarship, namely an emphasis on technological solutions and an overreliance on familiar contexts of climate action. The literature on climate urbanism does not yet reflect the diversity of urban responses emerging under the broad umbrella of urban climate action. Adopting a post‐colonial perspective on climate urbanism, we call for a greater engagement with the heterogeneous character of climate‐changed urban futures.

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Section: Situating Climate Urbanismmentioning

confidence: 99%