Thanks Ian!

Its probably the most theoretical paper I've written so I hope it all hangs together! Builds upon the work of @matthuber.bsky.social @nikki-luke.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @benbraun.bsky.social
@davidharvey.org @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
and others!
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The centering of electricity over fossil fuels - what I call electro-capitalism - requires a new accumulation regime and capital state relation e.g. longer time horizons. Electro capitalism will likely require a break with neoliberalism, as the Chinese model already shows.

I argue that the crisis is an early marker of a profound shift between the under-investment in low carbon electricity towards an over-accumulation of electricity capital - which under the current system is inflationary due to how individualized the costs of the shift are.

The paper shows how the energy crisis was a moment of upwards wealth redistribution, to both electricity and fossil fuel firms, due to the liberalised structure of the UK energy system. State co-ordination of electricity is increasing, but with very little discipline for capital

Thanks alot Ian!

Many thanks to the team at Urban Studies, all the reviewers and interlocutors throughout the four years of the project. Podcast mini-series on the issue coming in the Autumn with @urbanpolitical.bsky.social

Finally, Jason Luger & Miklós Dürr offer three conceptual lenses to understand the relationship between illiberalism and urbanism – arguing that urban density, crises and speed and virality – asking whether the urban question is an illiberal one
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Focusing on Istanbul, @ebrukurtozman.bsky.social & @tunatasankok.bsky.social shows how entrepreneurial citizenship fuses with authoritarian practices through a mixture and selective use of both informal and formal real estate development practices.
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The paper from Leonardo Fontes explores the cultural politics of Sau Paulo, arguing that ‘progressive publics’ are held together by geographically situated social capital, whereas ‘conservative publics’ are primarily structured around moral capital.
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My own contribution focuses on the housing crisis in England, arguing that the civil society contestation of planning reform has shifted common sense towards reducing democratic and deliberative practices
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Focusing on policy transfer from Russia to Kazakhstan, Sofia Borushkina argues that authoritarian governance creates its own policy entrepreneurship, based on conformity with state goals and avoiding democratic demands
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