Democracy's infrastructure : techno-politics and protest after apartheid

Democracy's infrastructure : techno-politics and protest after apartheid /

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 nonpayme...

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Main Author: Von Schnitzler, Antina, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Series:Princeton studies in culture and technology.
Subjects:
Since 1994
Political participation > Technological innovations > South Africa.
Technology > Political aspects > South Africa.
Citizenship > South Africa.
Communication in politics > Technological innovations > South Africa.
Mass media > Political aspects > South Africa.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
Political participation > Technological innovations
Communication in politics > Technological innovations
Citizenship
Mass media > Political aspects
Politics and government
Technology > Political aspects
South Africa > Politics and government > 1994-
South Africa
Operation Gcin'amanzi.
Phiri.
South Africa.
Soweto Uprising.
activism.
administration.
administrative terrain.
agency.
antiapartheid struggle.
antiapartheid.
apartheid.
basic services.
citizenship.
corporatization.
counterinsurgency.
democracy.
engineers.
ethics.
human rights.
infrastructure.
liberal democracy.
measurement.
neoliberal reforms.
neoliberalism.
nonpayment.
numbers.
payment.
political terrain.
power.
prepaid meter.
protests.
rent boycotts.
state obligation.
state.
subjectivity.
technical devices.
techno-political terrain.
techno-politics.
technology.
water provision.
water.
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