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Accepted Paper:
Challenges to co-production in post-colonial cities: a review of the landscape of co-production with focus on urban energy
Hita Unnikrishnan
(The University of Sheffield)
Vanesa Castán Broto
(University of Sheffield)
Paper short abstract:
In this paper, we review over 150 published articles on co-production, to demonstrate subtle differences in the landscape of co-production across different sectors such as green and blue commons, transport, housing, and energy.
Paper long abstract:
Co-production is increasingly recognised as an appropriate response to gaps in infrastructure services that shape urban lives. However, co-production takes many forms depending on the material and institutional environmental within which it is deployed. How do co-production practices vary across different urban sectors? In this paper, we review over 150 published articles on co-production, to demonstrate subtle differences in the landscape of co-production across different sectors such as green and blue commons, transport, housing, and energy.
The second part of the paper articulates the variation of co-production approaches across geographies, zooming in on one sector, the coproduction of energy services in urban areas. The analysis demonstrates differences in geographies of engagement, the technologies adopted, scales of intervention, types of actor groups involved, and the collective's interactions with policy. Drawing on results of the review, we articulate the plural, and multi-level challenges facing urban energy coproduction, particular at the level of individuals, communities, state and policy making, and the involvement of boundary spanners or third actors within the co-production landscape. Our analysis shows how specific power configurations operating across these various levels of interaction shape the deployment of coproduction methodologies with varying degrees of effectiveness. Further, we demonstrate how co-production can be shaped differently by different interactions across various actor groups, having implications on how community led collectives can self-organize towards achieving their desired objectives.
Keywords: Co-production, energy, boundary actors, institutions, power
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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Co-production is increasingly recognised as an appropriate response to gaps in infrastructure services that shape urban lives. However, co-production takes many forms depending on the material and institutional environmental within which it is deployed. How do co-production practices vary across different urban sectors? In this paper, we review over 150 published articles on co-production, to demonstrate subtle differences in the landscape of co-production across different sectors such as green and blue commons, transport, housing, and energy.
The second part of the paper articulates the variation of co-production approaches across geographies, zooming in on one sector, the coproduction of energy services in urban areas. The analysis demonstrates differences in geographies of engagement, the technologies adopted, scales of intervention, types of actor groups involved, and the collective's interactions with policy. Drawing on results of the review, we articulate the plural, and multi-level challenges facing urban energy coproduction, particular at the level of individuals, communities, state and policy making, and the involvement of boundary spanners or third actors within the co-production landscape. Our analysis shows how specific power configurations operating across these various levels of interaction shape the deployment of coproduction methodologies with varying degrees of effectiveness. Further, we demonstrate how co-production can be shaped differently by different interactions across various actor groups, having implications on how community led collectives can self-organize towards achieving their desired objectives.
Keywords: Co-production, energy, boundary actors, institutions, power
The political economy of urban reform in Africa: from analysis to action
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -