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This paper examines the production of the uneven landscape of electricity in Eastern North Carolina using a historical geographical materialist approach. In particular, it traces the development of infrastructures designed for both the mass generation and consumption of electricity using archival sources that include oral histories, newspaper reports, and corporate documents. The electric utilities and related infrastructure that have emerged are an important contributor to the energy poverty and uneven economic development that plagues the region. I argue that exploring the historical–geographical construction of electricity in this way brings forward a number of considerations for conceptions of energy poverty and energy justice.
Conor Harrison (Fri,) studied this question.