Democracy''s Infrastructure - Techno-Politics and Protest After Apartheid

Zusatztext "A savvy account of an overtly troubled nation." ---David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews Informationen zum Autor Antina von Schnitzler is an anthropologist and assistant professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School. Zusammenfassung 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 nonpayment of service charges, the bypassing of metering devices, and ill

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• Authors: Bill Maurer, Antina Von Schnitzler, Antina von Schnitzler
• Assisted by: Tom Boellstorff (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780691170770
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17077-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology; Princeton Studies in Culture a; Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Republic of South Africa, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Social and cultural anthropology, Demonstrations & protest movements