Faeeza Ballim

Broschiertes Buch

Apartheid's Leviathan

Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence

Beschreibung

Beginning in the 1960s, electricity shortages have hampered South Africaâ s economic growth and negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nationâ s mining, manufacturing, and power generation. This study thus demonstrates how technology has shaped South African history.

Autor

Faeeza Ballim (she/her) is a senior lecturer and head of the history department at the University of Johannesburg. She has previously published on agricultural cooperatives and urban racial segregation in the small town of Mokopane in the Limpopo province of South Africa. She is also currently the coeditor of a five-volume series entitled Translating Technology in Africa. Her research interests cohere around science and technology studies and its relationship to African history, and her new research is in the development of artificial intelligence technology in Africa.

Produktdetails

• New African Histories
• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 150mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9780821425183
• ISBN-10: 0821425188
• Artikelnr.: 66701015