Democracy's Infrastructure : Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid /
In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period has witnessed widespread illicit acts involving infrastructure, including the nonpayme...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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Table des matières:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The "discipline of freedom"
- After the rent boycotts
- Infrastructure and the politics of payment
- The making of a techno-political device
- Measuring life
- Living prepaid and the politics of numbers after apartheid
- Performing dignity
- Human rights and the legal politics of water
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.