Electricity Capital and Energy Poverty: Perspectives From Developmental States and Decentralised Markets

Lucy H. Baker is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography at the Open University and a visiting Associate Professor in the Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation and Sustainable Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Umberto Cao is an anthropologist, researcher at the public health dep. of Aix-Marseille University (France). His research focuses on social mobilisations for energy justice, especially among indigenous groups.

Ellen Fungisai Chipango is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, with research interests in political ecology, feminist political ecology, energy and environmental justice, decolonial development paradigms as well as ethics and morality of energy policy.

Hilman Syahri Fathoni is a Herb Feith scholar and doctoral researcher at Monash University. His research interests broadly focus on rural development, socio-cultural change, community empowerment and techno-ecological transformation, taking Eastern Indonesia as his main empirical focus.

Paul G. Munro is a Scientia Associate Professor in Human Geography at UNSW, Sydney. He has established research record in the fields of political ecology and environmental history, and has written extensively on forest governance and energy justice.

Shanil Samarakoon is a Research Associate in Human Geography at UNSW Australia. As reflected in his research record, he has a strong interest in issues of energy justice associated with energy transitions in the Global South.