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Democracy´s Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid
Antina Von Schnitzler
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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 illegal connections to services. Democracy's Infrastructure shows how such administrative links to the state became a central political terrain during the antiapartheid struggle and how this terrain persists in the post-apartheid present. Focusing on conflicts surrounding prepaid water meters, Antina von Schnitzler examines the techno-political forms through which democracy ... Read more
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 illegal connections to services. Democracy's Infrastructure shows how such administrative links to the state became a central political terrain during the antiapartheid struggle and how this terrain persists in the post-apartheid present. Focusing on conflicts surrounding prepaid water meters, Antina von Schnitzler examines the techno-political forms through which democracy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691170787
SKU
V9780691170787
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About Antina Von Schnitzler
Antina von Schnitzler is an anthropologist and assistant professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School.
Reviews for Democracy´s Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid
Von Schnitzler provides a well-documented scholarly analysis of threats to democracy in South Africa. Specifically, she analyzes the gap between South Africa's success in conducting open elections and maintaining a relatively open political system and the continued reliance upon illiberal techno-political infrastructure from the previous regime in the form of prepaid meters for such public services as electricity and water. ... Read more