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Current flow: the electrification of Palestine

By RONEN , Shamir

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780804787062, 9780804788687, 0804787069
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
8 MB (8400729 bytes)
Pages
xiv, 202 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Electrification--Palestine--History--20th century;

Description

Shamir follows electric wires as they extend to new contact points and asks about the social significance of being permanently attached to an electrical network ('the grid'). The argument is that the construction of an electric grid is a process that creates social differences, new subjectivities, distinct geographical areas, and new social classifications and categories (types of 'electric consumers'). The case-study is of electrification in 1920s Palestine, the book offering a material sociology of the roots of separatism between Arabs and Jews.;The Jaffa power house -- Let the poles act -- Wired -- From state to market -- Assembling a Jewish economy.

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