The impact of electricity : development, desires and dilemmas /

How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to a group of people for the first time? Why do some groups tend to embrace this icon of development while other groups actively fight against it? This book examines the effects of electricity's arrival in an African, rural commun...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Winther, Tanja (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2008.
Subjects:
Rural electrification > Social aspects > Tanzania.
Rural electrification > Economic aspects > Tanzania.
Sustainable development > Tanzania.
Power resources > Social aspects > Tanzania.
Power resources > Economic aspects > Tanzania.
Power resources > Environmental aspects > Tanzania.
Social structure > Tanzania.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > Electrical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Power resources > Economic aspects
Power resources > Environmental aspects
Power resources > Social aspects
Rural electrification > Economic aspects
Rural electrification > Social aspects
Social structure
Sustainable development
Elektrifizierung
Ländlicher Raum
Sozialer Wandel
Elektrizitätsversorgung
Tanzania
Sansibar
Tansania
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Table of Contents:
  • Title page-The impact of Electricity; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Ch 1-Introduction; Ch 2-Powers of the past; Ch 3-The rural electrification project (RUREL); Ch 4-Electrifying Uroa; Ch 5-Discourses of development; Ch 6-The electricity company in the village; Ch 7-Uroa by night; Ch 8-Introducing objects of desire; Ch 9-Reorganising interior space; Ch 10-Negotiating tastes in food; Ch 11-Electricity makes a difference; Glossary of swahili terms; Bibliography; Index.

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