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A History of Critical Electricity in Uganda : Integrating a Temporal Dimension into Energy Justice

Appelman, Maarten (2024) A History of Critical Electricity in Uganda : Integrating a Temporal Dimension into Energy Justice.

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Abstract:The seventh United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to provide affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy to everyone. While projects on transmission and distribution of electricity to households have been around since the start of the 20th century, roughly one in five people do not have access to electricity yet. This is concerning given that access to energy is positively correlated to human development aspects such as life-time expectancies, health, education, gender equality, while being inversely correlated to (sexual) violence, poverty, maternal mortality, and child mortality. While energy justice has emerged as an approach to assess the injustices along the energy supply chain that helps to guide policies for new energy related projects, it does not necessarily account for the specific histories of the infrastructures in which these injustices appear. This thesis however argues that many of the burdens and benefits of energy systems have already been distributed, and that the history of specific energy infrastructures can be incorporated into frameworks of energy justice to make them more adequate. By analysing the history of Uganda’s electricity infrastructure from 1894 until 2015 through the conceptual lens of criticality it will be shown how histories can be used to complement energy justice.
Item Type:Essay (Master)
Faculty:BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Subject:08 philosophy, 10 humanities in general, 15 history, 70 social sciences in general
Programme:Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society MSc (60024)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/104559
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