The City Electric : Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania.

By: Degani, MichaelMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022Copyright date: �2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781478092810Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The City ElectricDDC classification: 621.312109678 LOC classification: TK1193Online resources: Click to View
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 -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: 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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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 -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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