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-- Part I: Introduction. -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Off-grid energy and the global challenge of energy access. -- Part 2: Examining the conceptual basis for community energy. -- Chapter 2. Off-grid energy for resilience. -- Chapter 3. Finding the community in community energy. -- Chapter 4. Intersectionality challenges for the development of community energy. -- Chapter 5. Financial aspects of community energy. -- Chapter 6. Regulating community energy at the national level. -- Chapter 7. The role of supply chains in the development of community energy projects. -- Part III: Practical experiences of community energy development in East Africa. -- Chapter 8. Pioneering community energy for development: the Malawi experience. -- Chapter 9. Changing contexts of community energy development in Mozambique. -- Chapter 10. The role of community energy in a state-led model of service provision, the case of Ethiopia. -- Part IV: The future of community energy. -- Chapter 11. Education for community energy. -- Chapter 12. Changing the narrative: institutional change for community energy.

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- PART 1: Community Diversity and Intersectionality -- 2. "Missing Girls" in Urban Slums of the Global South Exploring the Intersections Between Puberty, Poverty, and Gender Inequality -- 3. Indigenous Rights to the City Struggles in Bolivia: Towards an Intersectional and Intergenerational Approach -- 4. An Excluded and Unrecognized Majority: Everyday Struggles of Backyarders in the Western Area of the Voortrekker Road Corridor in Cape Town, South Africa -- 5. High-Rise Hong Kong: Rethinking Narratives of Expertise in British Colonial Planning -- PART 2: Impacts of Planning Interventions in Diverse, Changing Communities -- 6. Infrastructural Relations: Participation and Diversity in Community- Based Water Management in Kathmandu, Nepal -- 7. Land Reform and Social Differentiation in Zimbabwe: Re-inventing the Wheel of Inequalities in Urban Development -- 8. Rethinking Community in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Projects in Dhaka's Bostis -- 9. From Collegiality to Gatekeeping: Modes of Everyday Governance in Old Fadama, Accra -- 10. Violent Militancy or Mended Masculinities? Oil and the (Re) Making of Men in the Niger Delta -- 11. Understanding the Make-Up of Community in Basic Service Delivery Projects: Retrospective Analysis of a Coproduction in Dar es Salaam -- PART 3: Mapping the Space of Possibility for Just Urban Development -- 12. (Re-)Constructing Disability through Research: Methodological Challenges of Intersectional Research in Informal Urban Settlements -- 13. Intersectionality Aspects of Community Energy in Urban Areas: Challenges and Conflict Resolution Methodologies.

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