Conference speaker
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Sylvy Jaglin
Le Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS), France
Sylvy Jaglin is Professor of African and Urban studies at the University Gustave Eiffel, where she is coordinator of the International Master in Urban Planning and Development within the Paris School of Urban Planning.
She is affiliated with LATTS-CNRS (Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés), where her research focuses on the relationship between cities and socio-technical infrastructure that provide basic services in the Global South, with a special interest in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work critically analyses how urban change both shapes and is shaped by infrastructural change, and has been developed along two main areas. The first addresses the social and spatial inequalities associated with the reforms in - and governance of - water services under processes of decentralization, neoliberalization and corporatization in Sub-Saharan Africa. The second examines energy transition paths at the urban scale in the Global South.
Her recent research in that field explores: the role of cities in contributing to transforming ‘unsustainable’ energy systems; the social dimensions of processes of hybridization of urban electricity configurations; and energy justice issues related to situations where the uptake of distributed renewable energies, in particular solar photovoltaic energy, disrupts conventional urban electricity networks and utilities. On these issues, she has been scientific leader and co-ordinator of several international multi-year research projects, some with a North-South comparative perspective and others with an explicit dimension of expertise in support of local public policies.