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- Title
The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postcolonial Tanzania by Michael Degani (review).
- Authors
Edward, Frank
- Abstract
Employing ethnographic methods, Michael Degani breaks this norm and takes his readers to neoliberal Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in the 1990s and 2000s, where there was an electric power crisis. Degani settles this position poignantly when he says "the power network came to be the symbolic and practical center of Tanzania's national compact, actors had to strike a balance between undermining it and preserving it" (p. 26). Degani invites STS scholars to examine resilience strategies contextually by paying attention to people-grid interactions as well as meter and grid tinkering among the urban poor affected by frequent power outages.
- Subjects
CITIES &; towns; URBAN poor; SYMBOLIC interactionism; ELECTRIC power; INTERPERSONAL communication; URBANIZATION
- Publication
Technology & Culture, 2023, Vol 64, Issue 4, p1329
- ISSN
0040-165X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/tech.2023.a911027