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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.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Ethnography of(f) the Grid 1
1. Emergency Power: A Brief History of the Tanzanian Energy Sector 31
2. The Flickering Torch: Power and Loss after Socialism 71
3. Of Meters and Modals: Patrolling the Grid 109
4. Becoming Infrastructure: Vishoka and Self-Realization 150
Conclusion. The Ingenuity of Infrastructure 187
Notes 207
Works Cited 223
Index 247

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: 30/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9781478016502, 978-1478016502
      ISBN10: 1478016507
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      African history Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments ix
      Introduction. Ethnography of(f) the Grid 1
      1. Emergency Power: A Brief History of the Tanzanian Energy Sector 31
      2. The Flickering Torch: Power and Loss after Socialism 71
      3. Of Meters and Modals: Patrolling the Grid 109
      4. Becoming Infrastructure: Vishoka and Self-Realization 150
      Conclusion. The Ingenuity of Infrastructure 187
      Notes 207
      Works Cited 223
      Index 247

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