In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period has witnessed widespread illicit acts involving infrastructure, including the nonpayment of service charges, the bypassing of metering devices, and illegal connections to services. Democracy's Infrastructure shows how such administrative links to the state became a central political terrain during the antiapartheid struggle and how this terrain persists in the post-apartheid present. Focusing on conflicts surrounding prepaid water meters, Antina von Schnitzler examines the techno-political forms through which democracy takes shape.
Von Schnitzler explores a controversial project to install prepaid water meters in Soweto--one of many efforts to curb the nonpayment of service charges that began during the antiapartheid struggle--and she traces how infrastructure, payment, and technical procedures become sites where citizenship is mediated and contested. She follows engineers, utility officials, and local bureaucrats as they consider ways to prompt Sowetans to pay for water, and she shows how local residents and activists wrestle with the constraints imposed by meters. This investigation of democracy from the perspective of infrastructure reframes the conventional story of South Africa's transition, foregrounding the less visible remainders of apartheid and challenging readers to think in more material terms about citizenship and activism in the postcolonial world.
Democracy's Infrastructure examines how seemingly mundane technological domains become charged territory for struggles over South Africa's political transformation.
Автор: Gaia Bernstein Название: Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies ISBN: 1009257935 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009257930 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3168.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online. It shifts the moral responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.
Автор: William Magnuson Название: Blockchain Democracy: Technology, Law and the Rule of the Crowd ISBN: 1108482368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108482363 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 16315.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Magnuson provides a captivating account of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain while revealing broader lessons about what happens when technology runs up against the law, markets, and human nature. This book will appeal to anyone interested in understanding how technology is changing our democracy, and how democracy is changing technology.
Автор: Borra, Surekha (k.s. Institute Of Technology, Bangalore, India) Thanki, Rohit (c. U. Shah University, Wadhwan City, India) Dey, Nilanjan (techno India Название: Agrarian women, the gender of dairy work, and the two-breadwinner model in the swedish welfare state ISBN: 0367670658 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367670658 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is about a new theory of suicide as cultural mimesis, or as an idea that is internalized from culture.
Автор: Cuffe, James B. Название: China at a Threshold ISBN: 1138740780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138740785 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: China at a Threshold addresses academic concerns surrounding communications technology and state control, looking for an interpretative approach to understand the role media might play in social change so that we might ascertain its impact on social relations.
Автор: Brown, Nik Название: Contested Futures ISBN: 0754612635 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754612636 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Название: Birthing techno-sapiens ISBN: 0367535432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367535438 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This ground-breaking book challenges us to re-think ourselves as techno-sapiens-a new species we are creating as we continually co-evolve ourselves with our technologies. The chapters are empirically grounded in ethnography and richly theorized from diverse disciplines.
Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagements—including the political economies of cinema; the emergent shapes taken by insurance, debt, and mortgages; gender and sexuality; and domesticity and nationalism—Geeta Patel demonstrates how science and technology ground our everyday intimacies. The result is a deeply poetic and philosophical exploration of the intricacies of techno-intimacy, revealing a complicated and absorbing narrative that challenges assumptions underlying our daily living.
Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagements—including the political economies of cinema; the emergent shapes taken by insurance, debt, and mortgages; gender and sexuality; and domesticity and nationalism—Geeta Patel demonstrates how science and technology ground our everyday intimacies. The result is a deeply poetic and philosophical exploration of the intricacies of techno-intimacy, revealing a complicated and absorbing narrative that challenges assumptions underlying our daily living.
Автор: Bessant, Judith Название: The Great Transformation ISBN: 0367876434 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367876432 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6736.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While AI, robots, bio-technologies and digital media are transforming work, culture and social life, there is little understanding of or agreement about the scope and significance of this change. This new interpretation of the `great transformation` uses history and evolutionary theory to highlight the momentous shift in human consciousness taki
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