The Political Economy of Energy Transitions: The Case of South Africa

By Lucy Baker, P. Newell, Jon Phillips. 2014

389 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. J. Barry
2. Noel Healy
3. L. Gailing
4. G. Bridge
5. Paula Rolffs
6. P. Newell
7. M. Swilling
8. Josephine Kaviti Musango

In Pollution

1. J. Barry
2. Noel Healy
3. L. Gailing
4. G. Bridge
5. Paula Rolffs
6. P. Newell
7. Ed Brown
8. Alison Mohr

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. J. Barry
2. Noel Healy
3. P. Newell
4. L. Gailing
5. Ed Brown
6. Alison Mohr
7. J. Cloke
8. M. Swilling

Citations in the corpus

• Politicizing energy justice and energy system transitions: Fossil fuel divestment and a “just transition” (2017, positive): “…is a critical component in the transitions approach, it is largely missing from much of existing analysis of socio-technical energy transitions and the energy justice literature (Meadowcroft, 2005; Smith and Stirling, 2007; Meadowcroft, 2009; Baker et al., 2014; Jenkins, McCauley et al., 2016).”
• Trasformismo or transformation? The global political economy of energy transitions (2018, background): “In South Africa, for example, the ties between state and the corporate sector are described in terms of a ‘Minerals Energy Complex’ (MEC) (Baker et al., 2014; Fine & Rustomjee, 1996): a regime of accumulation based on low-cost state-owned electricity production (via the public utility Eskom), cheap ”
• Deep transitions: Emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality (2018, neutral): “, 2005; Smith and Stirling, 2007; Genus and Coles, 2008; Hodson and Marvin, 2010): these issues were taken up in subsequent studies (Van Driel and Schot, 2005; Geels, 2006, 2014; Elzen et al., 2011; Penna and Geels, 2012; Baker et al., 2014; Kanger and Schot, 2016).”
• Beyond technology and finance: pay-as-you-go sustainable energy access and theories of social change (2015, background): “There has also been only limited application of a socio-technical transitions perspective within developing country contexts (e.g. see Baker et al., 2014; Berkhout et al., 2010; Romijn and Caniëls, 2011; Van Eijck and Romijn, 2008) and almost none in low-income countries.”
• New energy spaces: Towards a geographical political economy of energy transition (2020, background): “…(such as those informed by Geels’ (2005) multi-level perspective (MLP)) by paying more attention to its socially contested and power-laden character (Baker et al., 2014; Geels, 2014; Lawhon and Murphy, 2012; Newell and Mulvaney, 2013; Stirling 2014; Scoones et al. 2015; Power et al., 2016).”
• Imagining renewable energy: Towards a Social Energy Systems approach to community renewable energy projects in the Global South (2017, background): “Baker et al’s [83] analysis of the political economy of South African energy transitions is a rare example in the transitions field that focuses on the politics of transitional change.”
• Developmental States and Sustainability Transitions: Prospects of a Just Transition in South Africa (2016, background): “…sustainability-oriented innovation was driven centrally by state-linked development institutions (Angel & Rock, 2009), in South Africa (following Baker et al., 2014) the growth of the RE sector seems to demonstrate that niche innovations supported by global investors coupled to realignments…”