Research Network
Uneven and Combined Transitions
Energy, Justice and the Global South (UCT-EJGS)
Enriching just transitions scholarship by linking climate justice to questions of political economy, power, and global inequality, pushing the field toward more transformative and systemic understandings of what a just transition entails and how it might be achieved.
Event Announcements
Upcoming Events
Energy transitions and power strugglesWed, 18 NovWebinar
State and capital in Pakistan’s rooftop solar transitionWed, 25 NovWebinar
Making sense of the electrostateWed, 02 DecWebinar
Webinar Recordings
Dirty Metals for Clean Energy
Ben Radley (Uni of Bath), Bossissi Nkuba (Uni of Antwerp) and Emilia Columbo (CSIS Africa) discuss the political economy of critical mineral mining in the Congo.
Open Trade and Conflict Minerals in Africa
Ibrahim Babatunde Anoba and Ben Radley discuss the political economy of conflict minerals in Africa, with a particular focus on the DR Congo.
Scroll through recordings from our ongoing webinar series, in which we speak to scholars and activists working on issues related to energy transitions and justice in the Global South.
Network Resources
A curated list of recently published research outputs produced by network members.
Network Organisers
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Sam's research interests include economic development in South Africa, financialization, industrial development and industrial policy, the state and economic development, and the political economy of combined and uneven development.
New Uzbekistan University, Uzbekistan
Bahtiyor is a Professor of Economics and holds extensive research and international consulting experience in energy economics, modelling, climate policy and sustainable development.
University of Natural Resources, Papua New Guinea
Chalapan's work spans oceans, climate change, marine pollution, environmental policy and sustainable development. He currently serves as Director of the Momis Ocean and Climate Research Institute.
School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
Lorena's research focuses on structural transformation, energy transitions and state-market relations in Europe and East-Central Asia, with broader interests in agrarian political economy, social reproduction and development finance.
Susan has research interests in social reproduction and feminist political economies of work, the political economy of industrialisation and industrial policy with a geographical focus on Southern and East Africa.
Ben's research centres on the political economy of mining, energy and labour in the context of green transitions, with a regional focus on Central Africa and the Pacific Islands. He's the author of Disrupted Development in the Congo (OUP, 2023).
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