Michael Degani

The City Electric

Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael Degani explores how electricity and its piracy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, has become a key site for urban Tanzanians to enact, experience, and debate their social contract with the state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781478019145
• ISBN-10: 147801914X
• Artikelnr.: 63369021

Autorenporträt

Michael Degani is Assistant Professor of Environmental Anthropology at Cambridge University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Ethnography of(f) the Grid  1
1. Emergency Power: A Brief History of the Tanzanian Energy Sector  31
2. The Flickering Torch: Power and Loss after Socialism  71
3. Of Meters and Modals: Patrolling the Grid  109
4. Becoming Infrastructure: Vishoka and Self-Realization  150
Conclusion. The Ingenuity of Infrastructure  187
Notes  207
Works Cited  223
Index  247