The Impact of Electricity : : Development, Desires and Dilemmas / / Tanja Winther.
How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to a group of people for the first time? Why do some groups tend to embrace this icon of development while other groups actively fight against it? This book examines the effects of electricity’s arrival in an African, rural community....
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 2 POWERS OF THE PAST
- Chapter 3 THE RURAL ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT (RUREL)
- Chapter 4 ELECTRIFYING UROA
- Chapter 5 DISCOURSES OF DEVELOPMENT
- Chapter 6 THE ELECTRICITY COMPANY IN THE VILLAGE
- Chapter 7 UROA BY NIGHT
- Chapter 8 INTRODUCING OBJECTS OF DESIRE
- Chapter 9 REORGANISING INTERIOR SPACE
- Chapter 10 NEGOTIATING TASTES IN FOOD
- Chapter 11 ELECTRICITY MAKES A DIFFERENCE
- GLOSSARY OF SWAHILI TERMS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX