In what ways are lifestyles in urbanising Thailand, increasingly oriented towards shopping malls related to the threat to the wildlife and struggles for subsistence in distant Lao hinterlands? Our article answers this question by looking at the workings of electricity as the key infrastructure that connects these seemingly unrelated events and practices. We argue that the circulation of electricity flows along uneven channels, shifting injury and environmental harm across international borders. This circuit is perpetuating inequality and environmental injustice in the Lower Mekong. To demonstrate this claim, we analyse the electricity sector at numerous scales and locations – the urban scale in Bangkok, the country scale of Thailand and then Laos and the local community scale in Laos. We then discuss by what means various material and social processes and actors at these different scales form this circuit. Looking at circuits of power allows us to link the story of electricity consumption with that of production, with an emphasis on their extraterritoriality, multiplicity and boundaries. Our findings illustrate the effects of this circuit on spaces far from a thought‐of urban area. Furthermore, we demonstrate the ways in which these effects have produced inequality and injustice across borders.

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动力回路：从曼谷的购物中心到老挝的水力发电站的环境不公

在城市化的泰国中，生活方式如何以越来越多的方式转向与野生生物的威胁以及在遥远的老挝腹地谋生有关的购物中心？本文通过将电力作为连接这些看似无关的事件和实践的关键基础设施的工作原理来回答这个问题。我们认为，电力流通是沿着不平坦的渠道流动的，跨国际边界转移了伤害和环境危害。这条巡回路线使湄公河下游地区的不平等和环境不公正现象长期存在。为了证明这一点，我们分析了许多规模和地点的电力部门-曼谷的城市规模，泰国的国家规模以及老挝的国家规模和老挝的当地社区规模。然后，我们讨论通过什么方式在这些不同规模上形成各种物质和社会过程以及参与者。查看电源电路可以使我们将用电的故事与生产的故事联系起来，重点是其域外性，多重性和边界。我们的发现说明了该电路对远离市区的空间的影响。此外，我们证明了这些影响如何造成跨国界的不平等和不公正。