Dr Andrés Luque Ayala

Durham University

Andrés is the project’s Principal Investigator (PI) in the UK and co-leads Work Packages 1 and 3. His research agenda revolves around three interrelated topics and their implications for cities, particularly in the Global South. First, the development of a critical geography of energy, through new questions around energy politics, security and risk. This is done via an analysis of the politics involved in the scalar re-making of energy processes and the emergence of a local governance of energy around renewable resources. Second, a socio-technical examination of ‘smart’ forms of urbanisation and the coupling of digital and material infrastructures as a new security apparatus in the city. Finally, a critical evaluation of urban responses to climate change and the disruption of the relationship between climate mitigation and adaptation in cities.