Whitney Pailman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6009031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Whitney Pailman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Whitney |
| FAMILY NAME | Pailman |
| SIGNATURE | PAILMAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5719-7380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mind the gap
This paper examines transitions along the financing continuum for energy access companies, highlighting the dynamic and often non-sequential pathways through which they secure capital. It explores the complexities of moving between funding types and stages, identifying the critical junctures where funding gaps emerge and how these discontinuities affect the delivery of energy access business models and technologies. Drawing on the Transforming En…
The informality-energy innovation-finance nexus
This paper proposes the concept of the informality- energy innovation- finance nexus, as a theoretical framework to analyse micro-grid based urban off-grid energy access. The provision of energy access in urban informal set- tlements has received increased attention by scholars working on informality and energy in recent years. Recently, scholars have looked at the off-grid-urban informality nexus and have argued for the integration of off- grid …
Beyond the Grid
In this paper, we argue using smart technologies beyond the grid disrupts the access and use of existing energy sources, with profound impacts on everyday social life. We show how off‐grid smart energy solutions constitute their own politics when considering existing conceptualisations of urban infrastructures in geography and the social sciences. To expose its politics, or “micropolitics”, we consider how tensions occur at the interface between …
Smart and disruptive infrastructures
Smart urbanism is an established research area in geography and the social sciences. We draw on ‘worlding-provincialising’ strategies identified in an Urban Studies Special Issue from February 2021 to explore how smart infrastructures, a form of smart urbanism, disrupt representations of informality and urban development in new and productive ways. Focussing on the disruptive or troublesome implications of smart infrastructures reveals site-level…
Rethinking education for SDG 7
The informality-energy innovation-finance nexus
This paper proposes the concept of the informality- energy innovation- finance nexus, as a theoretical framework to analyse micro-grid based urban off-grid energy access. The provision of energy access in urban informal set- tlements has received increased attention by scholars working on informality and energy in recent years. Recently, scholars have looked at the off-grid-urban informality nexus and have argued for the integration of off- grid …
Beyond the Grid
In this paper, we argue using smart technologies beyond the grid disrupts the access and use of existing energy sources, with profound impacts on everyday social life. We show how off‐grid smart energy solutions constitute their own politics when considering existing conceptualisations of urban infrastructures in geography and the social sciences. To expose its politics, or “micropolitics”, we consider how tensions occur at the interface between …
Smart and disruptive infrastructures
Smart urbanism is an established research area in geography and the social sciences. We draw on ‘worlding-provincialising’ strategies identified in an Urban Studies Special Issue from February 2021 to explore how smart infrastructures, a form of smart urbanism, disrupt representations of informality and urban development in new and productive ways. Focussing on the disruptive or troublesome implications of smart infrastructures reveals site-level…
Rethinking education for SDG 7
Rethinking education for SDG 7
The informality-energy innovation-finance nexus
This paper proposes the concept of the informality- energy innovation- finance nexus, as a theoretical framework to analyse micro-grid based urban off-grid energy access. The provision of energy access in urban informal set- tlements has received increased attention by scholars working on informality and energy in recent years. Recently, scholars have looked at the off-grid-urban informality nexus and have argued for the integration of off- grid …
Beyond the Grid
In this paper, we argue using smart technologies beyond the grid disrupts the access and use of existing energy sources, with profound impacts on everyday social life. We show how off‐grid smart energy solutions constitute their own politics when considering existing conceptualisations of urban infrastructures in geography and the social sciences. To expose its politics, or “micropolitics”, we consider how tensions occur at the interface between …
Smart and disruptive infrastructures
Smart urbanism is an established research area in geography and the social sciences. We draw on ‘worlding-provincialising’ strategies identified in an Urban Studies Special Issue from February 2021 to explore how smart infrastructures, a form of smart urbanism, disrupt representations of informality and urban development in new and productive ways. Focussing on the disruptive or troublesome implications of smart infrastructures reveals site-level…
Mind the gap
This paper examines transitions along the financing continuum for energy access companies, highlighting the dynamic and often non-sequential pathways through which they secure capital. It explores the complexities of moving between funding types and stages, identifying the critical junctures where funding gaps emerge and how these discontinuities affect the delivery of energy access business models and technologies. Drawing on the Transforming En…
Energy (signal processing (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Business model (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Electrical engineering (2 works)