Democracy's Infrastructure : : Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid / / Antina von Schnitzler.
In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period has witnessed widespread illicit acts involving infrastructure, including the nonpayme...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction Democracy's Infrastructure, Apartheid's Debris
- Chapter 2: The "Discipline of Freedom" Neoliberalism, Translation, and Techno- Politics after the 1976 Soweto Uprising
- Chapter 3: After the Rent Boycotts Infrastructure and the Politics of Payment
- Chapter 4: The Making of a Techno- Political Device
- Chapter 5: Measuring Life Living Prepaid and the Politics of Numbers after Apartheid
- Chapter 6: Performing Dignity Human Rights and the Legal Politics of Water
- Conclusion: Infrastructure, Democracy, and the Postapartheid Political Terrain
- References
- Index