The City Electric : Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania /

"Over the last twenty years of neoliberal reform, the power supply in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's metropolis, has become less reliable even as its importance has increased. Though mobile phones, televisions, and refrigerators have flooded the city, the electricity required to run these devic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Degani, Michael, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tanzania Electric Supply Company.
Political corruption.
Electric utilities > Corrupt practices.
Electric utilities.
Electric power transmission.
Electric power distribution > Reliability.
HISTORY / Africa / East.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Political corruption > Tanzania > Dar es Salaam.
Electric utilities > Corrupt practices > Tanzania > Dar es Salaam.
Electric utilities > Tanzania > Dar es Salaam.
Electric power transmission > Tanzania > Dar es Salaam.
Electric power distribution > Tanzania > Dar es Salaam > Reliability.
Tanzania > Dar es Salaam.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Ethnography of(f) the Grid
  • Emergency Power: A Brief History of the Tanzanian Energy Sector
  • The Flickering Torch: Power and Loss After Socialism
  • Of Meters and Modals
  • Becoming Infrastructure: Vishoka and Self-Realization
  • Conclusion: The Ingenuity of Infrastructure

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