Electric Capitalism

Abstract

Introduction: The Importance of Being Electric * Electric Capitalism: Conceptualizing Electricity and Capital Accumulation in (South) Africa * Escom to Eskom: From Racial Keynesian Capitalism to Neo-liberalism (1910 - 1994) * Market Liberalisation and Continental Expansion: The Repositioning of Eskom in Post-Apartheid South Africa * Cheap at Half the Cost: Coal and Electricity in South Africa * The Great Hydro-rush: The Privatisation of Africa's Rivers * A Price Too High: Nuclear Energy in South Africa * Renewable Energy: Harnessing the Power of Africa? * Discipline and the New 'Logic of Delivery': Prepaid Electricity in South Africa and Beyond * Free Basic Electricity in South Africa: A Strategy for Helping or Containing the Poor? * Power to the People?: A Rights-Based Analysis of South Africa's Electricity Services * Still in the Shadows: Women and Gender Relations in the Electricity Sector in South Africa * From Local to the Global (and Back Again?): Anti-Commodification Struggles of the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee * South African Carbon Trading: A Counterproductive Climate Change Strategy * Electricity and Privatization in Uganda: The Origins of the Crisis and Problems with the Response * Connected Geographies and Struggles Over Access: Electricity Commercialization in Tanzania * Conclusion: Alternative Energy Paths for Southern Africa * Epilogue * Index