Elsewheres of the Unbuilt

The Global Effects of Transnational Energy Infrastructure Projects

Bibliographic Data

ID7809970
AuthorsMaren Larsen (0000-0003-0453-3165, corresponding author), Alke Jen (0000-0002-5751-7946), Benjamin Schuetze (0000-0001-7849-9057, corresponding author), Kenny Cupers (0000-0003-0042-1959)
Year2024
Volume48
Issue5
Pages916-935
Publication date2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2427.13265
OpenAlexW4401553896
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited47

Pipelines and refineries, hydropower dams, and solar and wind power projects feeding into emerging transnational energy networks make up the thrust of a new push for infrastructural expansion in the global South. This article argues that understanding the effects of this expansion requires attending to the multiple elsewheres of transnational energy projects in various states of realization. By this we mean accounting for the ways in which these projects are financed, planned, contested, contracted, built, transformed and withheld at multiple, sometimes connected and sometimes disparate, sites across the globe. Focusing on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), the Central American Electric Interconnection System (SIEPAC) and the Mediterranean Electricity Ring (MedRing), our research shows that such projects are ‘global’ not only in their physical reach and forging of connections between disparate and expansive geographies, but also in the ways they bring into being new, transnational or global publics

Economics · Economy · Electricity · Expansive · Globe · Hydropower · Oil refinery · Pipeline transport · Political science · Wind power · Engineering · Global Security and Public Health · International Development and Aid · Water Governance and Infrastructure