Entrenched provisionality
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چکیده
This article explores practices of community-based energy justice activists in Johannesburg. Against the background municipal corporatization electricity delivery wake postapartheid state’s neoliberal policy turn, residents urban periphery organize to ward off cost-recovery measures and illegally (re)connect grid. Informed by theories critical studies on South, this situates activists’ historically discusses limits their strategic claims with a view inextricable relation state.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Focaal
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1558-5263', '0920-1297']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2022.940104