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Tech Imaginaries: Energy Crisis and Everyday Life in South Africa's Silicon Cape

Tech Imaginaries: Energy Crisis and Everyday Life in South Africa's Silicon Cape

Waltorp, Karen
Kambunga, Asnath Paula

Hardcover

Business GeneralGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 24, 2027

ISBN10: 3032335868
ISBN13: 9783032335869
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 24 2027
Pages: 125
Language: English

This book interrogates everyday implications of digital developments in times of profound energy crises and transition to renewable energy in South Africa, mapping interrelated controversies. Drawing on more than two decades of ethnographic research on the Cape Flats on the outskirts of Cape Town, the book analyses what digital infrastructures and technologies do for- and to- people in this (former) township area on the 2 Cape Flats, and how this is related to energy in a myriad of ways. The authors empirically demonstrate how technologies emerge in, and with, societies and people's everyday practices, building on fieldwork with households and local tech start-ups. They stake a claim for centering situated, everyday (work) lives and the innovation emerging from the Cape Flats in debates about just digital and energy futures at a time where energy systems are changing at rapid pace and scale.

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