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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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2022. Ã2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
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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
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- D
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