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Professor Marcus Power's Outputs (72)

Rendering development investible: The anti-politics machine and the financialisation of development (2024)
Journal Article
Power, M., & Taggart, J. (2024). Rendering development investible: The anti-politics machine and the financialisation of development. Progress in Human Geography, 48(5), 552-574. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325241240741

We critically engage with the so-called ‘Financialisation of Development’ and argue that such is neither automatic nor inexorable. We review and extend a body of recent research that underscores the extensive ‘work’ required by ‘big D’ Development ac... Read More about Rendering development investible: The anti-politics machine and the financialisation of development.

Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique (2022)
Journal Article
Gebreslassie, M. G., Cuvilas, C., Zalengera, C., To, L. S., Baptista, I., Robin, E., Bekele, G., Howe, L., Shenga, C., Macucule, D. A., Kirshner, J., Mulugetta, Y., Power, M., Robinson, S., Jones, D., & Castán Broto, V. (2022). Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 12(1), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13705-022-00348-2

Off-grid and decentralized energy systems have emerged as an alternative to facilitate energy access and resilience in a flexible, adaptable way, particularly for communities that do not have reliable access to centralized energy networks both in rur... Read More about Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique.

The irony of choice in the “New Development Financing Landscape” (2021)
Journal Article
Taggart, J., & Power, M. (2022). The irony of choice in the “New Development Financing Landscape”. The Geographical Journal, 188(1), 109-117. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12411

The so-called “New Development Financing Landscape” has heralded claims of an “Age of Choice” for developing countries. Here, more diverse sources of development finance have undercut the monopoly of influence held by “traditional” donors: opening up... Read More about The irony of choice in the “New Development Financing Landscape”.

Mahbub Ul Haq (1934-1998) (2019)
Book Chapter
Power, M. (2019). Mahbub Ul Haq (1934-1998). In D. Simon (Ed.), Key Thinkers on Development (436-442). (2nd ed). Routledge

Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Kumar, A., Ferdous, R., Luque-Ayala, A., McEwan, C., Power, M., Turner, B., & Bulkeley, H. (2019). Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Energy Research and Social Science, 48, 166-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.005

Lanterns, homes systems, hot water systems and micro-grids based on small-scale solar have become prominent ways to address the energy access challenge. As momentum grows for this form of energy transition this paper draws together research on small-... Read More about Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

Powering the State: The political geographies of electrification in Mozambique (2018)
Journal Article
Power, M., & Kirshner, J. (2019). Powering the State: The political geographies of electrification in Mozambique. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(3), 498-518. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654418784598

This paper explores the role of electricity infrastructures in helping to create, expand or limit the contours of the state in post-colonial Mozambique. Through a focus on recent electrification campaigns and attempts to improve sustainable energy ac... Read More about Powering the State: The political geographies of electrification in Mozambique.

Africa and the export of China’s clean energy revolution (2016)
Journal Article
Shen, W., & Power, M. (2017). Africa and the export of China’s clean energy revolution. Third World Quarterly, 38(3), 678-697. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2016.1199262

The spectacular scale and speed of China’s domestic renewable energy capacity development and technology catch-up has in recent years been followed by the ‘go out’ of Chinese clean energy technology firms seeking new markets and opportunities in sub-... Read More about Africa and the export of China’s clean energy revolution.

The political economy of energy transitions in Mozambique and South Africa: The role of the Rising Powers (2016)
Journal Article
Power, M., Newell, P., Baker, L., Bulkeley, H., Kirshner, J., & Smith, A. (2016). The political economy of energy transitions in Mozambique and South Africa: The role of the Rising Powers. Energy Research and Social Science, 17, 10-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2016.03.007

In a world in which rising powers are reconfiguring global development trajectories with significant implications for their sustainability, it becomes increasingly important to understand whether and how low carbon energy transitions might be enabled... Read More about The political economy of energy transitions in Mozambique and South Africa: The role of the Rising Powers.

Towards a Critical Geopolitics of China’s Engagement with African Development (2016)
Book Chapter
Power, M., & Mohan, G. (2016). Towards a Critical Geopolitics of China’s Engagement with African Development. In T. Young (Ed.), Readings in the International Relations of Africa (322-337). Indiana University Press

China’s growth has required a concerted economic internationalisation and with it changing foreign policy discourses, that bring China closer binationally and multilaterally to other countries. As a result the orientation of China’s vision of ‘develo... Read More about Towards a Critical Geopolitics of China’s Engagement with African Development.

The Rise of the BRICS (2015)
Book Chapter
Power, M. (2015). The Rise of the BRICS. In J. Agnew, V. Mamadouh, A. Secor, & J. Sharp (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell companion to political geography (379-392). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118725771.ch28

Coined in 2001 by an economist at the multinational global investment firm Goldman Sachs, the “BRICs” acronym (referring to Brazil, Russia, India, and China) identified a group of four countries that were, due to their scale, population size, and gro... Read More about The Rise of the BRICS.

Mining and extractive urbanism: Postdevelopment in a Mozambican boomtown (2015)
Journal Article
Kirshner, J., & Power, M. (2015). Mining and extractive urbanism: Postdevelopment in a Mozambican boomtown. Geoforum, 61, 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.02.019

Mozambique has attracted international attention in recent years following the discovery of huge reserves of coal and gas deposits. A major focus of Mozambique’s extractives boom is the province of Tete, once a remote outpost but now a hub of power g... Read More about Mining and extractive urbanism: Postdevelopment in a Mozambican boomtown.

Reappraising Geopolitical Traditions. (2013)
Book Chapter
Sidaway, J., Mamadouh, V., & Power, M. (2013). Reappraising Geopolitical Traditions. In K. Dodds, M. Kuus, & J. Sharp (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics (165-188). Ashgate Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315612874.ch9

This chapter reworks some material from Sidaway and Mamadouh (2012) and Mamadouh (1998). We are grateful to Pearson and Kluwer for permission to rework and incorporate that material here. We are also grateful to Klaus Dodds and Merje Kuus for their h... Read More about Reappraising Geopolitical Traditions..