Shaun Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 6008735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaun Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaun |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6893-5908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Governing infrastructure heterogeneity
Heterogeneous infrastructures, combining networked and non-networked socio-technical arrangements, are increasingly legitimised as responses to service delivery challenges in Southern cities. However, their emergence in non-poor neighbourhoods and the challenges of governing them remain underexplored. Drawing on document review and 31 interviews across five neighbourhoods in Cape Town, this paper identifies three key governance challenges: 1) the…
The Broncos
This qualitative study provides a retrospective analysis of the 1986 Swift Current Broncos bus crash, exploring how social support is interpreted over the life course. Guided by Holt and Hoar’s framework, interviews with players, billets, and staff reveal the long-term impact of structural, functional, and perceptual support. While peer support remained a lifelong constant, the absence or deliberate obstruction of organizational and professional …
The urban water–energy nexus in Cape Town, Los Angeles and Maputo
Cities are increasingly encouraged to adopt cross-sector coordination mechanisms and visions as a response to complex urban sustainability challenges. However, infrastructure governance remains highly fragmented, with limited understanding of how and why coordination emerges, what issues it prioritises and whether these selective forms effectively address or obscure deeper structural challenges. This article investigates the dynamics of cross-sec…
When logics collide
This study examines the contrasting dynamics of gas exportation and importation in Mozambique, challenging prevailing research that predominantly concentrates on energy export. While Mozambique's gas policy prioritizes exports, neglecting domestic processing and infrastructure development, increasing demand for LPG signals a shift. This transition reveals divergent governance logics, with exportation centralizing revenue, reinforcing state power,…
Toward Urban Resilience? Coping with Blackouts in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The seamless and ubiquitous supply of infrastructure services such as electricity is usually seen as a critical backbone of modern urban societies. Yet electricity supply in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, like many other infrastructure services in cities in the Global South, is unreliable and unpredictable, with urban power cuts being everyday occurrences. Major challenges in electricity supply have resulted in severe crises leading to spatially uneven…
Enabling equitable energy access for Mozambique? Heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Maputo's growing urban periphery
This article concerns the relationship between uneven peri-urban growth and heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Metropolitan Maputo, Mozambique. Much research has documented how the diversity and overlap of different energy configurations define energy access in African cities. However, very little attention has been given to how urban growth dynamics shape heterogeneity and vice versa. A growing concern in African cities is highly uneven gro…
Practicing urban resilience to electricity service disruption in Accra, Ghana
Electricity is essential for the functioning of contemporary cities. However, despite its overarching criticality, residents of Southern cities like Accra are challenged by splintered access and limited reliability of electricity services. To maintain access, and creatively maneuver blackout situations, residents in Southern cities employ many alternative socio-technical configurations and adaptive strategies. Using the lenses of urban resilience…
Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations
Recent urban debates on the governance of sustainability transformations have witnessed an 'infrastructural turn'. Previously blacked-boxed, the role of infrastructures in sustainability transformations has been foregrounded by both growing academic scholarship and major investments in new infrastructural programs. How these changes are, and could be, governed remains somewhat opaque however, with traditional forms of knowledge and practices in n…
Mobilizing heterogeneity
Significant steps have been made to expand grid-level electricity access in Maputo, Mozambique. Simultaneously, research highlights the emergence of alternative socio-technical infrastructures that often run parallel or complementary to centralized electricity networks. Approaching energy access across such technologies and practices is crucial to understand the challenge of energy access even in cities where grid connectivity is high. Recently, …
Hybrid networks, everyday life and social control
This article examines electricity access in Kisumu and Kitale, Kenya, through the mediation of land tenure relations. Despite a reported rapid expansion of formal network connectivity, various everyday practices have emerged, including piecemeal electricity purchase and communal meter sharing, which mean electricity access is controlled and mediated at various social scales. It is argued that such practices represent hybridised forms of electrici…
Energy justice and sustainability transitions in Mozambique
This paper advances the debate on energy justice by opening up a dialogue with postcolonial critiques of development. There is an imperative to develop energy justice theory fit to address the complex demands of a global energy transitions in poorer countries of the Global South. Delivering transformative change in contexts where energy systems are underdeveloped requires assessing energy justice principles from multiple situated perspectives, ad…
Mobilizing heterogeneity
Significant steps have been made to expand grid-level electricity access in Maputo, Mozambique. Simultaneously, research highlights the emergence of alternative socio-technical infrastructures that often run parallel or complementary to centralized electricity networks. Approaching energy access across such technologies and practices is crucial to understand the challenge of energy access even in cities where grid connectivity is high. Recently, …
Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations
Recent urban debates on the governance of sustainability transformations have witnessed an 'infrastructural turn'. Previously blacked-boxed, the role of infrastructures in sustainability transformations has been foregrounded by both growing academic scholarship and major investments in new infrastructural programs. How these changes are, and could be, governed remains somewhat opaque however, with traditional forms of knowledge and practices in n…
Hybrid networks, everyday life and social control
This article examines electricity access in Kisumu and Kitale, Kenya, through the mediation of land tenure relations. Despite a reported rapid expansion of formal network connectivity, various everyday practices have emerged, including piecemeal electricity purchase and communal meter sharing, which mean electricity access is controlled and mediated at various social scales. It is argued that such practices represent hybridised forms of electrici…
The urban water–energy nexus in Cape Town, Los Angeles and Maputo
Cities are increasingly encouraged to adopt cross-sector coordination mechanisms and visions as a response to complex urban sustainability challenges. However, infrastructure governance remains highly fragmented, with limited understanding of how and why coordination emerges, what issues it prioritises and whether these selective forms effectively address or obscure deeper structural challenges. This article investigates the dynamics of cross-sec…
Practicing urban resilience to electricity service disruption in Accra, Ghana
Electricity is essential for the functioning of contemporary cities. However, despite its overarching criticality, residents of Southern cities like Accra are challenged by splintered access and limited reliability of electricity services. To maintain access, and creatively maneuver blackout situations, residents in Southern cities employ many alternative socio-technical configurations and adaptive strategies. Using the lenses of urban resilience…
Energy justice and sustainability transitions in Mozambique
This paper advances the debate on energy justice by opening up a dialogue with postcolonial critiques of development. There is an imperative to develop energy justice theory fit to address the complex demands of a global energy transitions in poorer countries of the Global South. Delivering transformative change in contexts where energy systems are underdeveloped requires assessing energy justice principles from multiple situated perspectives, ad…
Hybrid networks, everyday life and social control
This article examines electricity access in Kisumu and Kitale, Kenya, through the mediation of land tenure relations. Despite a reported rapid expansion of formal network connectivity, various everyday practices have emerged, including piecemeal electricity purchase and communal meter sharing, which mean electricity access is controlled and mediated at various social scales. It is argued that such practices represent hybridised forms of electrici…
Mobilizing heterogeneity
Significant steps have been made to expand grid-level electricity access in Maputo, Mozambique. Simultaneously, research highlights the emergence of alternative socio-technical infrastructures that often run parallel or complementary to centralized electricity networks. Approaching energy access across such technologies and practices is crucial to understand the challenge of energy access even in cities where grid connectivity is high. Recently, …
Enabling equitable energy access for Mozambique? Heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Maputo's growing urban periphery
This article concerns the relationship between uneven peri-urban growth and heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Metropolitan Maputo, Mozambique. Much research has documented how the diversity and overlap of different energy configurations define energy access in African cities. However, very little attention has been given to how urban growth dynamics shape heterogeneity and vice versa. A growing concern in African cities is highly uneven gro…
Practicing urban resilience to electricity service disruption in Accra, Ghana
Electricity is essential for the functioning of contemporary cities. However, despite its overarching criticality, residents of Southern cities like Accra are challenged by splintered access and limited reliability of electricity services. To maintain access, and creatively maneuver blackout situations, residents in Southern cities employ many alternative socio-technical configurations and adaptive strategies. Using the lenses of urban resilience…
Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations
Recent urban debates on the governance of sustainability transformations have witnessed an 'infrastructural turn'. Previously blacked-boxed, the role of infrastructures in sustainability transformations has been foregrounded by both growing academic scholarship and major investments in new infrastructural programs. How these changes are, and could be, governed remains somewhat opaque however, with traditional forms of knowledge and practices in n…
Toward Urban Resilience? Coping with Blackouts in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The seamless and ubiquitous supply of infrastructure services such as electricity is usually seen as a critical backbone of modern urban societies. Yet electricity supply in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, like many other infrastructure services in cities in the Global South, is unreliable and unpredictable, with urban power cuts being everyday occurrences. Major challenges in electricity supply have resulted in severe crises leading to spatially uneven…
When logics collide
This study examines the contrasting dynamics of gas exportation and importation in Mozambique, challenging prevailing research that predominantly concentrates on energy export. While Mozambique's gas policy prioritizes exports, neglecting domestic processing and infrastructure development, increasing demand for LPG signals a shift. This transition reveals divergent governance logics, with exportation centralizing revenue, reinforcing state power,…
The urban water–energy nexus in Cape Town, Los Angeles and Maputo
Cities are increasingly encouraged to adopt cross-sector coordination mechanisms and visions as a response to complex urban sustainability challenges. However, infrastructure governance remains highly fragmented, with limited understanding of how and why coordination emerges, what issues it prioritises and whether these selective forms effectively address or obscure deeper structural challenges. This article investigates the dynamics of cross-sec…
Governing infrastructure heterogeneity
Heterogeneous infrastructures, combining networked and non-networked socio-technical arrangements, are increasingly legitimised as responses to service delivery challenges in Southern cities. However, their emergence in non-poor neighbourhoods and the challenges of governing them remain underexplored. Drawing on document review and 31 interviews across five neighbourhoods in Cape Town, this paper identifies three key governance challenges: 1) the…
The Broncos
This qualitative study provides a retrospective analysis of the 1986 Swift Current Broncos bus crash, exploring how social support is interpreted over the life course. Guided by Holt and Hoar’s framework, interviews with players, billets, and staff reveal the long-term impact of structural, functional, and perceptual support. While peer support remained a lifelong constant, the absence or deliberate obstruction of organizational and professional …
Economics (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Electricity (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)