Motores, combustíveis e histórias nacionais: um livro sobre economias da escassez na Tanzânia
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History, Anthropology, Infrastructures, Oil, TechnologyAbstract
The book African Motors: Technology, gender, and the history of development, published by Duke University and written by Joshua Grace, opens up ways to think about the historical study of culture from the perspective of infrastructure. Covers the period from 1860 to 2015 in Tanzania. Oil, automobiles and national projects are categories articulated in this book. Oral stories are highlighted: men and women talk about their experiences as drivers, mechanics, passengers and urban and rural residents. The author relied on a careful study of different sources of documents, reports, photographs from public and private collections and interviews with prominent political figures and he himself worked in a garage in Dar es Salaam so as to better understand car maintenance. African Motors allows us to relate infrastructures, technologies and national imaginaries, as well as reflecting on energy sources in the contemporary world.
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GRACE, Joshua. 2021. African Motors: Technology, gender, and the history of development. Duke University Press
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VON SCHNITZLER, Antina. Democracy’s Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.
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