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Apartheid's leviathan : electricity and the power of technological ambivalence / Faeeza Ballim.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (181 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- New African Histories
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: The Unlikely Exploitation of the Waterberg
- 2: The Taming of the Waterberg
- 3: Eskom and the Turning of the Tide
- 4: Contested Neoliberalism
- 5: Labor and Belonging in Lephalale
- 6: The Medupi Power Station
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ballim, Faeeza Apartheid's Leviathan
- ISBN:
- 9780821447963
- 0821447963
- OCLC:
- 1376935182
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