Infrastructures of Freedom Public Light and Everynight Life on a Southern City's Margins
Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions of citizenship, informal neighborhoods with minimal infrastructure provision fa...
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2023
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| Abstract | Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions of citizenship, informal neighborhoods with minimal infrastructure provision face challenges beyond access to basic services and opportunities. Fear, the feeling of being forgotten, and living in undignified conditions are among the powerful experiences darkness brings about in these neighborhoods. The book not only reveals these experiences of everynight life, but takes a step further: it considers how the co-production of a solar public lighting project within a community improved everynight life and suggests ways for infrastructure to more successfully articulate citizenship. |
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| AbstractList | Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions of citizenship, informal neighborhoods with minimal infrastructure provision face challenges beyond access to basic services and opportunities. Fear, the feeling of being forgotten, and living in undignified conditions are among the powerful experiences darkness brings about in these neighborhoods. The book not only reveals these experiences of everynight life, but takes a step further: it considers how the co-production of a solar public lighting project within a community improved everynight life and suggests ways for infrastructure to more successfully articulate citizenship. Infrastructures of Freedom betrachtet die Auswirkungen einer unzureichenden öffentlichen Beleuchtung informeller Siedlungen in Kapstadt. Im demokratischen Südafrika, wo die Bereitstellung von Infrastrukturen immer noch tief verwurzelte Vorstellungen von Bürger*innenschaft widerspiegelt, stehen die informellen Siedlungen mit ihrer minimalen Infrastruktur vor Herausforderungen, die über den Zugang zu grundlegenden Dienstleistungen und Chancen hinausgehen. Angst, das Gefühl, vergessen worden zu sein, und lebensunwürdige Bedingungen zählen zu den prägenden Erfahrungen, die die Dunkelheit in diesen Vierteln mit sich bringt. Das Buch schildert diese allnächtlichen Erfahrungen nicht nur, sondern geht noch einen Schritt weiter: Es untersucht, inwiefern ein gemeinschaftliches und öffentliches Solarbeleuchtungsprojekt das nächtliche Leben in einer solchen Siedlung verbessert hat und zeigt Wege auf, wie sich die Infrastruktur positiv auf Fragen der Bürger*innenrechte auswirkt. Mit einem Vorwort von Christian Schmid und Sophie Oldfield Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions of citizenship, informal neighborhoods with minimal infrastructure provision face challenges beyond access to basic services and opportunities. Fear, the feeling of being forgotten, and living in undignified conditions are among the powerful experiences darkness brings about in these neighborhoods. The book not only reveals these experiences of everynight life, but takes a step further: it considers how the co-production of a solar public lighting project within a community improved everynight life and suggests ways for infrastructure to more successfully articulate citizenship. With a foreword by Christian Schmid and Sophie Oldfield |
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| Keywords | public light Cape Town Lichtinfrastruktur informelle Siedlung Feldforschung Südafrika southern urbanism Khayelitsha bottom-up Staatsbürgerschaft light infrastructure urbane Segregation darkness urban segregation citizenship Kapstadt Apartheid Solarlicht post-Apartheid South Africa action research Dunkelheit post-Apartheid urban planning öffentliches Licht township |
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| SubjectTerms | action research Apartheid Architecture ARCHITECTURE / General ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice ARCHITECTURE / Vernacular bottom-up Cape Town citizenship darkness Dunkelheit Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Feldforschung informelle Siedlung Kapstadt Khayelitsha Khayelitsha light infrastructure Lichtinfrastruktur light infrastructure post-Apartheid post-Apartheid urban planning public light Regional and area planning Solarlicht South Africa southern urbanism Staatsbürgerschaft Südafrika The Arts township township action research urban segregation urbane Segregation öffentliches Licht |
| Subtitle | Public Light and Everynight Life on a Southern City's Margins |
| TableOfContents | Contents -- Chapter 2: Cape Town’s Segregated Lightscape -- Chapter 3: Endeavours of Studying Khayelitsha’s Lighting -- Chapter 4: Life in the Shadows of Area Lighting -- Epilogue -- Foreword -- Appendix Acknowledgements -- Chapter 6: Freeing the Night, Co-producing Light -- Frontmatter -- Chapter 1: Reading through Light and Beyond -- Chapter 5: Trapped by Darkness -- Chapter 7: Infrastructures of Freedom: Breaking Boundaries with Light -- Introduction -- |
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