The City Electric : : Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania.

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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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Degani, Michael.
Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2022.
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Year of Publication:2022
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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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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.
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