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Always-in-the-making: Electricity Service Provision in Maputo, Mozambique
Access to ‘formal’ electricity networks remains a key challenge in many African urban areas. Significant attention has been paid to how access to an electricity connection should be provided and by whom. Much less attention has been paid to the endless, pragmatic, situated everyday practices of maintenance and repair that keep infrastructures going, not always successfully. This talk explores the usefulness in conceptualizing electricity service provision as a precarious achievement, a process always-in-the-making. To this end, the talk will draw on ongoing fieldwork in Maputo, Mozambique with the national electricity company, EDM (Electricidade de Moçambique, E.P.) and its transition to an electricity network mediated by prepayment technologies. The talk will draw on an article recently published in the journal Urban Studies (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042098018776921).
Date:
20 May 2019, 17:30
Venue:
Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details:
Sadler Room
Speaker:
Dr Idalina Baptista (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Department for Continuing Education
Organiser:
Tim Burman (Continuing Education)
Organiser contact email address:
gradschool@conted.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Tim Burman (Continuing Education)
Part of:
Graduate seminar programme in the social sciences
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/events/view/always-in-the-making-electricity-service-provision-in-maputo-mozambique
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Tim Burman
