Electrical Capitalism: Recolonising Africa on the Power Grid
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780796922373
Category
Publication Year
2009
Publisher
URL
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Subject
Electric power, Capitialism
Abstract
There are enormous inequalities in electricity access in Africa, with industry receiving abundant supplies of cheap power whereas the overwhelming majority of its populations remain off the power grid. This book provides an innovative theoretical framework for understanding electricity and capitalism on the continent, followed by a series of case studies that examine different aspects of electricity supply and consumption. Africa is experiencing a renewed scramble for its electricity resources, conjuring up images of a recolonization of the continent along the power grid
Description
Electric capitalism: Conceptualising electricity and capital accumulation in (South) Africa
David A McDonald
2 Escom to Eskom: From racial Keynesian capitalism to neo-liberalism (1910-1994)
Leonard Gentle
3 Market liberalisation and continental expansion: The repositioning of Eskom in post-apartheid South Africa
Stephen Greenberg
4 Cheap at half the cost: Coal and electricity in South Africa
Richard Worthington
5 The great hydro-rush: The privatisation of Africa's rivers
Terri Hathaway and Lori Pottinger
6 A price too high: Nuclear energy in South Africa
David Fig
7 Renewable energy: Harnessing the power of Africa?
Liz McDaid
8 Discipline and the new 'logic of delivery': Prepaid electricity in South Africa and beyond
Peter van Heusden
9 Free basic electricity in South Africa: A strategy for helping or containing the poor?
Greg Ruiters
10 Power to the people? A rights-based analysis of South Africa's electricity services
Jackie Dugard
11 Still in the shadows:Women and gender relations in the electricity sector in South Africa
Wendy Annecke
12 From local to global (and back again?): Anti-commodification struggles of the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee
Prishani Naidoo and Ahmed Veriava
13 South African carbon trading: A counterproductive climate change strategy
Patrick Bond and Graham Erion
14 Electricity and privatisation in Uganda: The origins of the crisis and problems with the response
Christopher Gore
F
15 Connected geographies and struggles over access: Electricity commercialisation in Tanzania
Rebecca Ghanadan
Conclusion: Alternative electricity paths for Southern Africa
David A McDonald
Epilogue
David A McDonald
2 Escom to Eskom: From racial Keynesian capitalism to neo-liberalism (1910-1994)
Leonard Gentle
3 Market liberalisation and continental expansion: The repositioning of Eskom in post-apartheid South Africa
Stephen Greenberg
4 Cheap at half the cost: Coal and electricity in South Africa
Richard Worthington
5 The great hydro-rush: The privatisation of Africa's rivers
Terri Hathaway and Lori Pottinger
6 A price too high: Nuclear energy in South Africa
David Fig
7 Renewable energy: Harnessing the power of Africa?
Liz McDaid
8 Discipline and the new 'logic of delivery': Prepaid electricity in South Africa and beyond
Peter van Heusden
9 Free basic electricity in South Africa: A strategy for helping or containing the poor?
Greg Ruiters
10 Power to the people? A rights-based analysis of South Africa's electricity services
Jackie Dugard
11 Still in the shadows:Women and gender relations in the electricity sector in South Africa
Wendy Annecke
12 From local to global (and back again?): Anti-commodification struggles of the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee
Prishani Naidoo and Ahmed Veriava
13 South African carbon trading: A counterproductive climate change strategy
Patrick Bond and Graham Erion
14 Electricity and privatisation in Uganda: The origins of the crisis and problems with the response
Christopher Gore
F
15 Connected geographies and struggles over access: Electricity commercialisation in Tanzania
Rebecca Ghanadan
Conclusion: Alternative electricity paths for Southern Africa
David A McDonald
Epilogue
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