TRAVELING TECHNOLOGIES: Infrastructure, Ethical Regimes, and the Materiality of Politics in South Africa
作者： ANTINA VON SCHNITZLER
DOI: 10.1111/CUAN.12032
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摘要: In this article, I explore the politics of infrastructure in South Africa by focusing on “travels” a small technical device. Since end apartheid, prepaid meters have been widely deployed Africa's townships to curb nonpayment service charges. Yet many residents bypassed their meters, enabling them illicitly access electricity or water. track micro-political battle between tinkering with technology and engineers trying secure it, arguing that itself becomes political terrain for negotiation central ethical questions concerning civic virtue shape citizenship. To investigate techno-political terrain, trace genealogy meter from Victorian Britain, when it was invented as tool working-class “moral improvement,” late-apartheid period, re-assembled device counterinsurgency against anti-apartheid “rent boycotts.” each moment, suggest, harnessed distinct regimes projects. Drawing my ethnographic fieldwork contemporary Africa, semiotic-material work required make functional post-apartheid moment. Tracing travels across time space, argue, opens up conceptual space rethink relationship ethics, politics, technics.
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