The City Electric : Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania.
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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Ethnography of(f) the Grid
- One. Emergency Power: A Brief History of the Tanzanian Energy Sector
- Two. The Flickering Torch: Power and Loss after Socialism
- Three. Of Meters and Modals: Patrolling the Grid
- Four. Becoming Infrastructure: Vishoka and Self-Realization
- Conclusion. The Ingenuity of Infrastructure
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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- N
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- P
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- S
- T
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