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Unpacking the spaces and politics of energy poverty : path-dependencies, deprivation and fuel switching in post-communist Hungary
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Hungary
energy poverty
natural gas
path-dependency
prices
Geography, Planning and Development
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
energy poverty
natural gas
path-dependency
prices
Geography, Planning and Development
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/26593
Abstract
This paper focuses on the embeddedness of energy poverty – understood as the inability to secure a socially and materially necessitated level of energy services in the home – in the socio-technical legacies inherited from past development trajectories, as well as broader economic and institutional landscapes. Using Hungary as an example, we explore the recent expansion of energy poverty across different demographic and income groups. While much of the mainstream literature focuses on cases where energy poverty affects distinct social groups and issues, our analyses examine the systemic implications of a form of deprivation that involves a much wider range of social and spatial strata. We develop a framework that highlights the different ways in which inadequate access to energy services has resulted in the emergence of new political reconfigurations among a variety of actors, while prompting the articulation of household strategies with far-reaching structural consequences.
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Journal article
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2016-09-01
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10.1080/13549839.2015.1075480