All Outputs (2)

Incremental infrastructures: material improvisation and social collaboration across post-colonial Accra (2014)
Journal Article
Silver, J. (2014). Incremental infrastructures: material improvisation and social collaboration across post-colonial Accra. Urban Geography, 35(6), 788-804. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2014.933605

Approaching the informal construction and extension of infrastructures through the terrain of what I term “the incremental” opens up new platforms of analysis for post-colonial urban systems. This refers to ad hoc actions on the part of slum dwellers... Read More about Incremental infrastructures: material improvisation and social collaboration across post-colonial Accra.

Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics? (2014)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., & Silver, J. (2014). Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics?. Political Geography, 40, 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.02.003

This paper takes as its starting point the argument that infrastructure networks cannot merely be thought of as the backdrop against which climate politics is played out in the city, but are instead fundamental to the ways in which this is conducted.... Read More about Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics?.