TY  - BOOK
AU  - von Schnitzler,Antina
TI  - Democracy's Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid 
T2  - Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
SN  - 9780691170770
AV  - JQ1981 .S365 2018
U1  - 323.0420968 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Communication in politics
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Technology
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Operation Gcin'amanzi
KW  - Phiri
KW  - Soweto Uprising
KW  - activism
KW  - administration
KW  - administrative terrain
KW  - agency
KW  - antiapartheid struggle
KW  - antiapartheid
KW  - apartheid
KW  - basic services
KW  - citizenship
KW  - corporatization
KW  - counterinsurgency
KW  - democracy
KW  - engineers
KW  - ethics
KW  - human rights
KW  - infrastructure
KW  - liberal democracy
KW  - measurement
KW  - neoliberal reforms
KW  - neoliberalism
KW  - nonpayment
KW  - numbers
KW  - payment
KW  - political terrain
KW  - power
KW  - prepaid meter
KW  - protests
KW  - rent boycotts
KW  - state obligation
KW  - state
KW  - subjectivity
KW  - technical devices
KW  - techno-political terrain
KW  - techno-politics
KW  - technology
KW  - water provision
KW  - water
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter 1: Introduction Democracy's Infrastructure, Apartheid's Debris --; Chapter 2: The "Discipline of Freedom" Neoliberalism, Translation, and Techno- Politics after the 1976 Soweto Uprising --; Chapter 3: After the Rent Boycotts Infrastructure and the Politics of Payment --; Chapter 4: The Making of a Techno- Political Device --; Chapter 5: Measuring Life Living Prepaid and the Politics of Numbers after Apartheid --; Chapter 6: Performing Dignity Human Rights and the Legal Politics of Water --; Conclusion: Infrastructure, Democracy, and the Postapartheid Political Terrain --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 takes shape.Von Schnitzler explores a controversial project to install prepaid water meters in Soweto-one of many efforts to curb the nonpayment of service charges that began during the antiapartheid struggle-and she traces how infrastructure, payment, and technical procedures become sites where citizenship is mediated and contested. She follows engineers, utility officials, and local bureaucrats as they consider ways to prompt Sowetans to pay for water, and she shows how local residents and activists wrestle with the constraints imposed by meters. This investigation of democracy from the perspective of infrastructure reframes the conventional story of South Africa's transition, foregrounding the less visible remainders of apartheid and challenging readers to think in more material terms about citizenship and activism in the postcolonial world.Democracy's Infrastructure examines how seemingly mundane technological domains become charged territory for struggles over South Africa's political transformation
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