Publications
2025
Scholarly publications
Pilo, F., Gallez, C., & Nessi, H. (2025). Citoyenneté et infrastructures urbaines : l’État, les médiations non étatiques et les pratiques quotidiennes. Flux, 139-140(120), 1-18. [DOI]
2024
Scholarly publications
Jambadu, L., Pilo, F., & Monstadt, J. (2024). Co-producing maintenance and repair: Hybrid labor relations in water supply in Accra, Ghana. Urban Research and Practice, 17(2), 280–302. [DOI] [Repository]
2023
Scholarly publications
Romero-Lankao, P., Rosner, N., Brandtner, C., Rea, C., Mejia-Montero, A., Pilo, F., Dokshin, F., Castán Broto, V., Burch, S., & Schnur , S. (2023). A framework to centre justice in energy transition innovations. Nature Energy, 8(11), 1192-1198. [DOI] [Repository]
Koepke, M., Monstadt, J., & Pilo, F. (2023). Urban electricity governance and the (re)production of heterogeneous electricity constellations in Dar es Salaam. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 13(1), 1-15. Article 23. [DOI] [Repository]
Cante, F., Hussain, A., Makori, T., Mohamed, S., Osbourne, A., Pilo, F., Simone, A., Sitas, R., & Suhail, A. (2023). MOVEMENT 5. SENSING THE AFFECTIVE LIVES OF ARRANGEMENTS. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 47(3), 510-521. [DOI] [Repository]
Cante, F., Hussain, A., Makori, T., Mohamed, S., Osbourne, A., Pilo, F., Simone, A., Sitas, R., & Suhail, A. (2023). MOVEMENT 4. BREATH SIGH TEMPEST: On the Temporal Dimensions of Re-arrangements. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 47(3), 496-509. [DOI] [Repository]
Cante, F., Hussain, A., Makori, T., Mohamed, S., Osbourne, A., Pilo, F., Ramakrishnan, K., Simone, A., & Sitas, R. (2023). ON URBAN RE-ARRANGEMENTS: A Suite in Five Movements. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 47(3), 461-470. [DOI] [Repository]
Cante, F., Hussain, A., Makori, T., Mohamed, S., Osbourne, A., Pilo, F., Ramakrishnan, K., Simone, A., Sitas, R., & Suhail, A. (2023). MOVEMENT 2. FORMALIZING ARRANGEMENTS: Re-signification and the Making of Governable Spaces. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 47(3), 471-482. [DOI] [Repository]
Cante, F., Hussain, A., Makori, T., Mohamed, S., Osbourne, A., Pilo, F., Ramakrishnan, K., Simone, A., Sitas, R., & Suhail, A. (2023). MOVEMENT 3. NAVIGATING URBAN ARRANGEMENTS. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 47(3), 483-495. [DOI] [Repository]
Pilo, F. (2023). The techno-political fabric of Rio de Janeiro: insights from electricity infrastructure. Estudos Avancados, 37(107), 83-98. [DOI] [Repository]
Pilo, F. (2023). O tecido tecno-político do Rio de Janeiro: reflexões sobre a infraestrutura de eletricidade. Estudos Avancados, 37(107), 83-98. [DOI] [Repository]
Jaffe, R., & Pilo, F. (2023). Security technology, urban prototyping, and the politics of failure. Security Dialogue, 54(1), 76 –93. [DOI] [Repository]
Pilo, F. (2023). Infrastructural Heterogeneity: Energy Transition, Power Relations and Solidarity in Kingston, Jamaica. Journal of Urban Technology, 30(2), 35-54. [DOI] [Repository]
Pilo, F. (2023). Security planning, citizenship, and the political temporalities of electricity infrastructure. Urban Geography, 44(7), 1285-1304. [DOI] [Repository]
2022
Scholarly publications
Barroco Fontes Cunha, F., Ferraz de Andrade Santos, J. A., Pilo, F., Nucci, C. A., Santana Silva, M., & Andrade Torres, E. (2022). Renewable distributed generation evolution: perspectives and new trends for prosumers in Brazil and Italy. In E. Antonini, & J. Gaspari (Eds.), Architectures for Next Generation EU Cities: Challenges, Key Drivers, and Research Trends (pp. 129-150). (Ricerche di tecnologia dell'architettura). Franco Angeli. [Repository]
van Beveren, C. C., Fial, A., Slokker, T., Pilo, F., Alkema, S., & Wolfensberger, M. (2022). Creating a sense of belonging through co-creation during COVID-19. Journal of the European Honors Council , 6(1). [DOI] [Repository]
2021
Scholarly publications
Spire, A., & Pilo, F. (2021). The Politics of Urban Resettlement: Spatial Governmentality, “Soft Constraints”, and Everyday Life in Lomé, Togo. In R. Beier, A. Spire, & M. Bridonneau (Eds.), Urban Resettlements in the Global South: Lived Experiences of Housing and Infrastructure between Displacement and Relocation (1 ed., pp. 25-45). Routledge. [DOI] [Repository]
Pilo, F. (2021). The smart grid as a security device: Electricity infrastructure and urban governance in Kingston and Rio de Janeiro. Urban Studies, 58(16), 3265-3281. [DOI] [Repository]
Koepke, M., Monstadt, J., Pilo, F., & Otsuki, K. (2021). Rethinking energy transitions in Southern cities: urban and infrastructural heterogeneity in Dar es Salaam. Energy Research and Social Science, 74(2021), Article 101937 (open access). [DOI] [Repository]
Popularising publications
Pilo, F., & Avila, E. (2021). O que são as perdas de energia e o potencial da energia solar para um modelo de redução sustentável. Digital or Visual Products https://revolusolar.com.br/o-que-sao-as-perdas-de-energia-e-como-a-energia-solar-pode-oferecer-um-modelo-de-reducao-sustentavel/
2020
Scholarly publications
Pilo, F., & Jaffe, R. (2020). Introduction: The Political Materiality of Cities. City & Society, 32(1), 8-22. [DOI]
Pilo, F. (2020). Material politics: utility documents, claims-making and construction of the ‘deserving citizen’ in Rio de Janeiro. City & Society, 32(1), 71-92. [DOI]
2019
Scholarly publications
Pilo', F. (2019). Negotiating networked infrastructural inequalities: Governance, electricity access, and space in Rio de Janeiro. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. [DOI]
2018
Scholarly publications
Pilo, F. (2018). Co-producing affordability’ to the electricity service: a market-oriented response to addressing inequality of access in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. In L. Moretto, & M. Ranzato (Eds.), Coproducing Water, Energy and Waste Services (pp. 86-101). Routledge.
Morange, M., Pilo, F., & Spire, A. (2018). Experiencing Regularisation in Accra, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro: The Actual Right to the City, Neoliberalisation and Everyday Life. City journal, 22(5-6). [DOI]
Pilo, F. (2018). Rio de Janeiro, a city (unequally) connected? Electricity service and divisions of the urban space. Métropolitiques. https://www.metropolitiques.eu/Rio-de-Janeiro-An-Inequitably-Connected-City.html
2017
Scholarly publications
Soares Gonçalves, R., & Pilo, F. (2017). From Favela to Comunidade, and beyond. The taming of Rio de Janeiro. In R. Harris, & C. Vorms (Eds.), What’s in a name? How we label peripheral places (pp. 173-191). Toronto University Press.
Pilo, F. (2017). Les petits commerçants informels des favelas face à la régularisation électrique: entre tactiques, ajustements et inadaptations. Métropoles , 21. https://journals.openedition.org/metropoles/5533
Pilo, F. (2017). A socio-technical perspective to the right to the city: regularizing electricity access in Rio de Janeiro favelas. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(3), 396-413. [DOI]
Pilo, F. (2017). Consumo de energia elétrica nas favelas e a transformação de consumidores em clientes. GEOgraphia, 18(38), 3-26. Article 1. https://periodicos.uff.br/geographia/article/view/13771
Pilo, F. (2017). Co-producing affordability’ to the electricity service: a market-oriented response to addressing inequality of access in Rio de Janeiro’s favela. Urban Research and Practice, 10(1), 86-101. [DOI]
2016
Scholarly publications
Pilo, F. (2016). Rio de Janeiro: Regularising energy consumption in favelas through reshaping consumers into customers. In A. Luque-Ayala, & J. Silver (Eds.), Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid. Geographies of the Electric City (pp. 67-85). Ashgate.
Pilo, F. (2016). Rio de Janeiro, ville (inégalement) branchée? Service d’électricité et divisions de l’espace urbain. Métropolitiques. https://www.metropolitiques.eu/Rio-de-Janeiro-An-Inequitably-Connected-City.html
Popularising publications
Pilo, F. (2016). PUC-Rio: Regularização de energia em favelas gerou conflito com moradores. Digital or Visual Products
Pilo, F. (2016). 'Droit à la ville de fait” et service d’électricité dans les peripheries de Lomé, billet de “retour de terrain". https://dalvaa.hypotheses.org/766
2015
Scholarly publications
Pilo, F. (2015). “La régularisation du service d’électricité dans les favelas « pacifiées » de Rio de Janeiro: un outil de construction du « consommateur responsable »?”. In M. Zelem, & C. Beslay (Eds.), Sociologie de l’énergie. Gouvernance et pratiques sociales. (pp. 97-103). CNRS.
Pilo, F. (2015). Le compteur d’électricité aux favelas: l’espace public entre normes et defiance. Urbanités, 6, Article 6. http://www.revue-urbanites.fr/6-le-compteur-delectricite-aux-favelas-lespace-public-entre-normes-et-defiance/
Popularising publications
Pilo, F. (2015). Regularização do fornecimento de energia X integração das favelas no Rio.
2010
Scholarly publications
Pilo, F. (2010). Análise do consumo de energia elétrica através do perfil de uso e posse de equipamentos em comunidades de baixo poder aquisitivo do Rio de Janeiro. In XIII Brazilian Electricity Congress – Quality of living