TRAVELING TECHNOLOGIES: Infrastructure, Ethical Regimes, and the Materiality of Politics in South Africa

In this article, I explore the politics of infrastructure in South Africa by focusing on the "travels" of a small technical device. Since the end of apartheid, prepaid meters have been widely deployed in South Africa's townships to curb the nonpayment of service charges. Yet many resi...

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Published in:	Cultural anthropology Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 670 - 693
Main Author:	VON SCHNITZLER, ANTINA
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Hoboken, NJ Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.11.2013 Wiley American Anthropological Association
Subjects:	Africa Apartheid Citizenship Counterinsurgency Electricity Engineers Ethics Ethnography Ethnology Fieldwork Genealogy Infrastructure materiality Morality Negotiation Nonpayment Politics Post-apartheid era Rents Residents Rhythm Semiotics Services Social relations. Intercultural and interethnic relations. Collective identity Social structure and social relations South Africa Space and Time Technology Townships Travel Water Working Class South Africa Infrastructure Ethics Citizenship Politics Materiality Technology
ISSN:	0886-7356, 1548-1360
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