Edward Brown

Biographic Data

ID3596074
NAMEEdward Brown
GIVEN NAMESEdward
FAMILY NAMEBrown
SIGNATUREBROWN E
AFFILIATIONSLoughborough University
ORCID0000-0002-0722-9348
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS182
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1928
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX6

  • Clean cooking for every ‘body’: Including people with disabilities in modern energy cooking services in the global south

    Open AccessAmita Bhakta, Edward Brown et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2023Cited by: 1References: 6

    Clean cooking solutions, with greater access to cleaner and safer cooking fuels than traditional energy sources, are key to ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy services for all. However, the needs of the 1 billion people living with disabilities globally who face disproportionate levels of poverty, poor access to nutrition, and challenges with buying and preparing food, have been neglected from discussions aroun…

  • Decentralization: The key to accelerating access to distributed energy services in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessCollen Zalengera, Long Seng To et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Studies…2020Cited by: 5References: 8

    The decentralization of governance is increasingly considered crucial for delivering development and is being widely adopted in sub-Saharan countries. At the same time, distributed (decentralized) energy systems are increasingly recognized for their role in achieving universal access to energy and are being promoted in sub-Saharan countries. However, little attention has been paid by governments and energy practitioners to the dynamic interrelati…

  • Speaking in riddles: The Panama Papers and the global financial services sector

    Open AccessJonathan Cloke, Edward Brown et al.ARTICLEArea2019References: 11

    In 2007, on the cusp of the economic crisis, a paper was published in Growth and Change (June 2007) entitled “Shadow Europe: alternative European financial geographies,” which began to tackle the idea of shadow finance in Europe and the size and inseparability of what was regarded as “shadow” from “normal” financial flows. A number of the observations made have proved remarkably prescient and one particular phrase stands out in the light of the r…

  • Solar electric cooking in Africa: Where will the transition happen first

    Open AccessSimon Batchelor, Edward Brown et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2018Cited by: 3References: 2

    Whilst the rapid spread of solar photovoltaics (PV) across Africa has already transformed millions of lives, it has yet to have an impact on the main energy need of poor households: cooking. In the context of falling global PV prices, recent advancements in battery technology and rising charcoal/fuelwood prices in severely deforested regions, the door is opening for a potentially transformative alternative – solar electric cooking (PV-eCook). Whi…

  • Imagining renewable energy: Towards a Social Energy Systems approach to community renewable energy projects in the Global South

    Open AccessJonathan Cloke, Alison Mohr et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2017Cited by: 51References: 16

    Rural community energy projects in the Global South have too frequently been framed within a top-down technologically-driven framework that limits their ability to provide sustainable solutions to energy poverty and improving livelihoods. This framing is linked to how energy interventions are being imagined and constructed by key actors in the sector, via particular sociotechnical imaginaries through which a set of increasingly universalised ener…

  • Low carbon energy and international development: From research impact to policymaking

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Ben Campbell et al.ARTICLEContemporary Social Science2017Cited by: 3References: 9

    Few areas of international development research have seen as much transformation over recent years as those relating to energy access and low carbon transitions. New policy initiatives, technological innovations and business models have radically transformed the configuration and dynamics of the sector, driven by the urgency of ongoing climate change. This article asks how, given these rapidly moving contexts, policymakers can engage with researc…

  • Energy and Development: The Political Economy of Energy Choices

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Ed Brown et al.ARTICLEProgress in Development Studies2017Cited by: 3References: 1

    This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Progress in Development Studies and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1464993416688790

  • Communities of energy

    Open AccessBen Campbell, Jon Cloke et al.ARTICLEEconomic Anthropology2016Cited by: 18References: 27

    The call for social science to engage with energy infrastructures and users to enable low‐carbon transitions that benefit the poor in the Global South is welcome, but its urgency risks epistemic distortion. The theme of “community” in the social studies of energy needs critical reflection, disambiguation, and interrogation with empirical case studies. This article explores dimensions of assumed homogeneity at local scales. In attending to similar…

  • Promoting Religious Freedom From the Outskirts of Europe

    Kristin Storaker, Edward BrownARTICLEThe Review of Faith & International…2014Cited by: 1

    Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.(Attributed to Margaret Mead)Norway, a country on the outskirts of E

  • Green growth or ecological commodification: Debating the green economy in the global south

    Edward Brown, Ed Brown et al.ARTICLEGeografiska Annaler Series B…2014Cited by: 9References: 12

    This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: BROWN, E.D. ... et al, 2014. Green growth or ecological commodification: debating the green economy in the Global South. Geografiska Annaler Series B - Human Geography, 96 (3), pp. 245 - 259., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geob.12049. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving

  • Seaman's Narrative of His Adventures During a Captivity among Chinese Pirates on the Coast of Cochin-China: And Afterwards During a Journey on Foot Across That Country in the Years 1857-8

    Edward BrownBOOKSeaman's Narrative of His…2013

  • Towards financial geographies of the unbanked: International financial markets, 'bancarizacion' and access to financial services in Latin America

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Ed Brown et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal2013Cited by: 2References: 56

    Within the context of an exploration of the recent financial geographies literature, which laments the lack of attention paid to the dynamics and impacts of financial globalisation in Latin America and the global South, this paper examines the links between exclusion from formal financial services provision for low-income sectors across Latin America and the unstable nature of regional financial services architecture and economies. The paper exam…

  • A Seaman's Narrative of his Adventures during a Captivity among Chinese Pirates on the Coast of Cochin-China: And Afterwards during a Journey on Foot across that Country in the Years 1857–8

    Open AccessEdward Brown, E L BrownBOOKSeaman's Narrative of His…2012

    During the time of the Second Opium War between Britain and China (1856–60), sailor Edward Brown (about whom little is known) was discharged from a trading vessel in Hong Kong. He was then offered the opportunity to captain a Chinese-crewed ship bound for Wai-how on the west coast, though he was warned that it was a risky enterprise because of the ongoing hostilities. Soon his ship was chased by Chinese pirates and Brown was taken captive for man…

  • Critical perspectives on corruption: An overview

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Jonathan Cloke et al.ARTICLECritical Perspectives on…2011

    Purpose – This introductory paper aims to serve a dual purpose. First, it seeks to trace some of the key elements of this emerging agenda in critical corruption studies and the major directions in which the field has moved since 2006, exploring some of the connections between dominant discourses of corruption and anti‐corruption and the upheavals which have occurred in the global economy during this period along the way. Second, this discussion a…

  • Of legitimate and illegitimate corruption: Bankruptcies in Nicaragua

    Open AccessJosé Luis Rocha, Edward Brown et al.ARTICLECritical Perspectives on…2011

    Purpose The concept of corruption is frequently represented as relating to social practices that violate established rules and norms. This paper, however, seeks to demonstrate that corrupt practices are often only possible because they in fact draw on existing institutional mechanisms and cultural dispositions that grant them a certain social approval and legitimacy. The paper aims to explore these issues through a detailed exploration of corrupt…

  • World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains: Towards a World-Systems' Integration

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Ed Brown et al.ARTICLEGlobal Networks2010Cited by: 28References: 46

    There are two literatures that explicitly describe the spaces of flows that constitute contemporary globalization - World City Network analysis and Global Commodity Chain analysis. We explore the possibilities of their integration by returning to their common origins in world-systems analysis. Each model is described and critiqued and it is argued that each can be used to address some of the other's limitations. This is illustrated through world …

  • How we got here: The road to Gats

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Ed Brown et al.ARTICLEProgress in Development Studies2008References: 5

    This paper provides a contextual and historical backdrop for this special edition by exploring cross-sectoral debates about the potential impacts of the GATS negotiations and their place within the broader political economy of North-South relations. It traces the historical background to the negotiations as part of the formation of the World Trade Organization in 1995 and assesses some of the major controversies that have arisen over the likely i…

  • The critical business of corruption

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Jonathan ClokeARTICLECritical Perspectives on…2006

    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to set out an agenda for promoting collaboration between researchers in critical geography and critical management studies. Design/methodology/approach The paper is divided into two main sections. In the first, a detailed discussion of the nature of critical perspectives in the two traditions is advanced which focuses upon the nature of the two disciplines, the contested meaning of “critical” approaches and ou…

  • Neoliberal reform, governance and corruption in Central America: Exploring the Nicaraguan case

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Ed Brown et al.ARTICLEPolitical Geography2005Cited by: 5References: 12

  • Neoliberal Reform, Governance and Corruption in the South: Assessing the International Anti‐Corruption Crusade

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Ed Brown et al.ARTICLEAntipode2004Cited by: 26References: 25

    This paper presents a critique of current thinking on the causes and impacts of corruption and the measures designed to combat it. It begins by exploring the evolution of the current preoccupation with corruption and traces the growth in international initiatives designed to tackle the issue. It then moves on to consider the assumptions underlying the dominant schools of thought on corruption and alternative definitions of the phenomenon. The lim…

  • Beyond world cities: Central America in a global space of flows

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Ed Brown et al.ARTICLEArea2002Cited by: 12

    Central America is a region without a world city. Traditionally, the region’s national projects have been based upon openness to the world economy: how do the region’s contemporary transnational projects connect to the world economy under the new conditions of openness that is contemporary globalization? Focusing upon advanced producer services, three connections into the world city network are identified: global service firms operating directly …

  • Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts

    Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang, Kwadwo Konadu‐agyemang et al.REVIEWEconomic Geography2002

    About the book: Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) are an important feature of contemporary development, yet they are often evaluated in the terms set out by lenders themselves, ignoring the wider implications of SAPs. Structural Adjustment attempts to situate SAPs in a wider development context featuring case material from the UK, USA, Ghana, Mexico, India, Jamaica, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Mali, Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone, the book addresses…

  • Still their backyard? The US and post-Mitch development strategies in Nicaragua

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Ed BrownARTICLEPolitical Geography2000Cited by: 6References: 13

  • Deconstructing development: Alternative perspectives on the history of an idea

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Ed BrownARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography1996Cited by: 2

  • Nicaragua: Sandinistas, social transformation and the continuing search for a popular economic programme

    Open AccessEdward Brown, Ed BrownARTICLEGeoforum1996Cited by: 1References: 9