The City Electric

Degani, Michael

doi:10.1215/9781478023777

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Degani, Michael

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Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)

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English

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Abstract

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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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92951

Keywords

electricity; infrastructure; neoliberalism; postsocialism; parasite; modality; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa::1HF Sub-Saharan Africa::1HFG East Africa