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Apartheid's leviathan : electricity and the power of technological ambivalence / Faeeza Ballim.
Lippincott Library HD9685.S62 B46 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ballim, Faeeza, author.
- Series:
- New African histories series
- New African histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electric power production--Economic aspects--South Africa.
- Electric power production.
- Electric power production--Political aspects--South Africa.
- Apartheid--Economic aspects--South Africa.
- Apartheid.
- South Africa--Economic conditions.
- South Africa.
- Apartheid--Economic aspects.
- Economic history.
- Electric power production--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- x, 167 pages : map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Beginning in the 1960s, the security of electricity supply has shaped South Africa's economic growth and prosperity, and electricity shortages have negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nation's mining, manufacturing, and power generation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Unlikely Exploitation of the Waterberg
- ch. 2 The Taming of the Waterberg
- ch. 3 Eskom and the Turning of the Tide
- ch. 4 Contested Neoliberalism
- ch. 5 Labor and Belonging in Lephalale
- ch. 6 The Medupi Power Station.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ballim, Faeeza. Apartheid's leviathan
- ISBN:
- 9780821425183
- 0821425188
- 9780821425176
- 082142517X
- OCLC:
- 1347217288
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