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oapen-20.500.12657-637622023-07-05T08:49:34Z Infrastructures of Freedom Briers, Stephanie post-Apartheid urban planning public light darkness Cape Town South Africa Khayelitsha light infrastructure citizenship urban segregation township action research bottom-up Apartheid southern urbanism bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMD Architecture: professional practice bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RP Regional & area planning Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions of citizenship, informal neighborhoods with minimal infrastructure provision face challenges beyond access to basic services and opportunities. Fear, the feeling of being forgotten, and living in undignified conditions are among the powerful experiences darkness brings about in these neighborhoods. The book not only reveals these experiences of everynight life, but takes a step further: it considers how the co-production of a solar public lighting project within a community improved everynight life and suggests ways for infrastructure to more successfully articulate citizenship. 2023-07-04T15:55:37Z 2023-07-04T15:55:37Z 2023 book ONIX_20230704_9783868597806_10 9783868597806 9783868597769 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63762 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9783868597806.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783868597806 De Gruyter JOVIS Verlag GmbH 10.1515/9783868597806 10.1515/9783868597806 2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3 c317b572-34f8-4405-a08b-b82102e20fe7 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9783868597806 9783868597769 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) JOVIS Verlag GmbH 272 Berlin/Boston [...] [...] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation open access
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Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions of citizenship, informal neighborhoods with minimal infrastructure provision face challenges beyond access to basic services and opportunities. Fear, the feeling of being forgotten, and living in undignified conditions are among the powerful experiences darkness brings about in these neighborhoods. The book not only reveals these experiences of everynight life, but takes a step further: it considers how the co-production of a solar public lighting project within a community improved everynight life and suggests ways for infrastructure to more successfully articulate citizenship.
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