Of Cooks, Crooks and Slum-Dwellers: Exploring the Lived Experience of Energy and Mobility Poverty in Mexico’s Informal Settlements
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So-called “slum-dwellers” living in informal settlements in Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) often confront poor health outcomes, face chronic accommodation insecurity and are frequent victims of social intolerance, discrimination and racism. In addition, they usually reside in living environments with precariously hazardous conditions that often lead to their well-being endangerment. Based on extensive original research with slum-dwellers from the MCMA including focus groups (N = 18 participants), household interviews (N = 51 participants), and site visits (N = 5), this study investigates their energy and housing needs, transport and mobility patterns and challenges to their overall quality of life and health. The MCMA is one of the largest metropolitan regions globally, and most of its inhabitants experience a “double energy vulnerability,” circumstances whereby people are at an intensified risk of energy and transport poverty simultaneously. Our investigation circles around three key themes. In exploring the subject of extreme poverty and vulnerability, we show not only the problems they confront but also illegal practices such as electricity thefts and coping strategies. In investigating the subject of perpetual peripheralization, we show troubling patterns of discrimination, racism and social intolerance. In exploring the subject of spatial justice, we suggest a set of policies that ought to help achieve it.
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Significant socio-economic and justice developments would be needed before high levels of electrification across society could be expected in Mexico.
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The discussion of cleaner technologies (section UCHI08; page unavailable) reports that low-income residents of Mexico’s informal settlements wanted solar PV and electric vehicles but could not afford them. The Conclusion (section 6; page unavailable) also links energy and transport poverty to marginalization and discrimination. These findings support the concern about socioeconomic and justice barriers, but the paper does not establish that significant developments are a prerequisite for high levels of electrification across Mexican society. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredMexico has populations suffering from energy and transport poverty.
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- Authors
- Furszyfer Del Rio, D. D., & Sovacool, B. K.
- Affiliations
- Boston University (US)
- Venue
- World Development
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023-01
- Volume
- 161
- Pages
- 106093
- ISSN
- 0305-750X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4294957251
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 87
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 15.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- World Development (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- UK Research and Innovation (EP/R035288/1)
- Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research
- Stanford University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Energy and Environment Impacts
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Latin American Urban Studies
- Keywords
- energy poverty, transport poverty, informal settlements, slum dwellers, Mexico City metropolitan area, electricity theft, housing insecurity, social intolerance, spatial justice, quality of life, health outcomes, coping strategies, extreme poverty, peripheralization
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