Electric Capitalism: Recolonising Africa on the Power Grid

ISBN-13: 9781138993426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 528 str.

David A. McDonald;¬Abar;¬Abar

Spis treści

Introduction: The Importance of Being Electric * Electric Capitalism: Conceptualizing Electricity and Capital Accumulation in (South) Africa * Escom to Eskom: From Racial Keynesian Capitalism to Neo-liberalism (1910 - 1994) * Market Liberalisation and Continental Expansion: The Repositioning of Eskom in Post-Apartheid South Africa * Cheap at Half the Cost: Coal and Electricity in South Africa * The Great Hydro-rush: The Privatisation of Africa's Rivers * A Price Too High: Nuclear Energy in South Africa * Renewable Energy: Harnessing the Power of Africa? * Discipline and the New 'Logic of Delivery': Prepaid Electricity in South Africa and Beyond * Free Basic Electricity in South Africa: A Strategy for Helping or Containing the Poor? * Power to the People?: A Rights-Based Analysis of South Africa's Electricity Services * Still in the Shadows: Women and Gender Relations in the Electricity Sector in South Africa * From Local to the Global (and Back Again?): Anti-Commodification Struggles of the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee * South African Carbon Trading: A Counterproductive Climate Change Strategy * Electricity and Privatization in Uganda: The Origins of the Crisis and Problems with the Response * Connected Geographies and Struggles Over Access: Electricity Commercialization in Tanzania * Conclusion: Alternative Energy Paths for Southern Africa * Epilogue * Index

O autorze

David A. McDonald is Director and Asociate Professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen's University in Canada. He is also Co-Director of the Municipal Services Project, a multi-partner research program examining the impact of policy reforms on the delivery of basic municipal services to the urban and rural poor in southern Africa.