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The Repair Mindset : How to Fix off-Grid Solar Power in Kenya.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, Declan.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- This book is the first to examine the off-grid solar industry in Kenya, examining the local repair economy tackling the problems of solar product breakdown.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- The Repair Mindset: How to Fix Off-Grid Solar Power in Kenya
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Glossary
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: A Broken World
- The solar assemblage
- Broken products and broken provision
- Following a broken thing
- Outline of the book
- Part I Making and Breaking Products
- 1 Old Tech Made New
- A development technology
- American equipment, expertise and finance
- Harry Burris and the household market
- Quality concerns
- The emergence of the solar lantern
- The last mile at the bottom of the pyramid
- The engineer's approach
- 2 Market Devices: Quality Standards and Impact Metrics
- Two trade centres, two markets
- Market-making devices
- Device #1: quality standards
- Internal product performance
- External, product surroundings
- Device #2: impact metrics
- Energy access
- Economic impact
- Environmental impact
- Lobbying for local policy
- Making global standards national
- Tax: exemptions and definitions
- Policy
- Selling the standards and the impact
- Merging markets
- 3 Breakdowns in the Assemblage
- Functional products, broken relationships
- Capturing disagreement
- Breakdowns in relationships
- Types of breakdowns
- Breakdown as formative
- Part II Responding to Breakdown
- 4 Repairing at Home
- Routine repair
- Imagined users, imagined uses
- Men and boys
- Repair of practice
- Material repair
- Pragmatic repair
- Rural, domestic e-waste
- Waiting in 'the store'
- Other actions
- First and second burials
- 5 Professional Repair
- An old profession
- Luo-men and learning
- The bricolage business
- Sixteen solar repairs
- Economic repair
- Daily sediments
- Shadron and the opportunistic scavenger
- Landfill and roadside incineration
- Holding on.
- Deliberate and involuntary siphoning
- 6 The Illusion of Authorized Repair
- Satisfying customers, saving costs and keeping consistent
- The polyvalent technician
- Troubleshooting
- Replacing repair
- Repair persists
- Decorations, demonstrations and gifts
- The rubbish stream
- Waiting in the warehouse
- 'Recycling'
- Waiting with waste
- Conclusion: The Repair Mindset
- Development by bricolage
- Recapitulation of chapters
- If you finish your school, your plan?
- How to fix off-grid solar
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 5
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-5089-7
- 9781529250893
- OCLC:
- 1581574680
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