The City Electric
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Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
electricity; infrastructure; neoliberalism; postsocialism; parasite; modalityDOI
10.1215/9781478023777ISBN
9781478092810, 9781478023777, 9781478016502, 9781478019145, 9781478092810Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Durham, 2022Classification
Social and cultural anthropology
Sociology
East Africa