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Apartheid's Leviathan
Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence
Taschenbuch von Faeeza Ballim
Sprache: Englisch

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Beginning in the 1960s, the security of electricity supply has shaped South Africa's economic growth and prosperity, and electricity shortages have negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nation's mining, manufacturing, and power generation.
Beginning in the 1960s, the security of electricity supply has shaped South Africa's economic growth and prosperity, and electricity shortages have negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nation's mining, manufacturing, and power generation.
Über den Autor

Faeeza Ballim (she/her) is a senior lecturer and head of the history department at the University of Johannesburg. She has previously published on agricultural cooperatives and urban racial segregation in the small town of Mokopane in the Limpopo province of South Africa. She is also currently the coeditor of a five-volume series entitled Translating Technology in Africa. Her research interests cohere around science and technology studies and its relationship to African history, and her new research is in the development of artificial intelligence technology in Africa.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Unlikely Exploitation of the Waterberg

Chapter 2 The Taming of the Waterberg

Chapter 3 Eskom and the Turning of the Tide

Chapter 4 Contested Neoliberalism

Chapter 5 Labor and Belonging in Lephalale

Chapter 6 The Medupi Power Station

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780821425183
ISBN-10: 0821425188
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ballim, Faeeza
Hersteller: Ohio University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 227 x 150 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Faeeza Ballim
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.04.2023
Gewicht: 0,304 kg
Artikel-ID: 125883591
Über den Autor

Faeeza Ballim (she/her) is a senior lecturer and head of the history department at the University of Johannesburg. She has previously published on agricultural cooperatives and urban racial segregation in the small town of Mokopane in the Limpopo province of South Africa. She is also currently the coeditor of a five-volume series entitled Translating Technology in Africa. Her research interests cohere around science and technology studies and its relationship to African history, and her new research is in the development of artificial intelligence technology in Africa.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Unlikely Exploitation of the Waterberg

Chapter 2 The Taming of the Waterberg

Chapter 3 Eskom and the Turning of the Tide

Chapter 4 Contested Neoliberalism

Chapter 5 Labor and Belonging in Lephalale

Chapter 6 The Medupi Power Station

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780821425183
ISBN-10: 0821425188
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ballim, Faeeza
Hersteller: Ohio University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 227 x 150 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Faeeza Ballim
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.04.2023
Gewicht: 0,304 kg
Artikel-ID: 125883591
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