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Infrastructures of Freedom : Public Light and Everynight Life on a Southern City's Margins / Stephanie Briers.
Main entry:

Briers, Stephen, 1965- author.

Title & Author:

Infrastructures of Freedom : Public Light and Everynight Life on a Southern City's Margins / Stephanie Briers.

Publication:

Berlin : JOVIS Verlag GmbH, [2023]
©2023

Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Notes:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Reading through Light and Beyond -- Chapter 2: Cape Town's Segregated Lightscape -- Chapter 3: Endeavours of Studying Khayelitsha's Lighting -- Chapter 4: Life in the Shadows of Area Lighting -- Chapter 5: Trapped by Darkness -- Chapter 6: Freeing the Night, Co-producing Light -- Chapter 7: Infrastructures of Freedom: Breaking Boundaries with Light -- Epilogue -- Appendix
In English.
Summary:

Infrastructures of Freedom betrachtet die Auswirkungen einer unzureichenden öffentlichen Beleuchtung informeller Siedlungen in Kapstadt. Im demokratischen Südafrika, wo die Bereitstellung von Infrastrukturen immer noch tief verwurzelte Vorstellungen von Bürger*innenschaft widerspiegelt, stehen die informellen Siedlungen mit ihrer minimalen Infrastruktur vor Herausforderungen, die über den Zugang zu grundlegenden Dienstleistungen und Chancen hinausgehen. Angst, das Gefühl, vergessen worden zu sein, und lebensunwürdige Bedingungen zählen zu den prägenden Erfahrungen, die die Dunkelheit in diesen Vierteln mit sich bringt. Das Buch schildert diese allnächtlichen Erfahrungen nicht nur, sondern geht noch einen Schritt weiter: Es untersucht, inwiefern ein gemeinschaftliches und öffentliches Solarbeleuchtungsprojekt das nächtliche Leben in einer solchen Siedlung verbessert hat und zeigt Wege auf, wie sich die Infrastruktur positiv auf Fragen der Bürger*innenrechte auswirkt. Mit einem Vorwort von Christian Schmid und Sophie Oldfield.
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. With a foreword by Christian Schmid and Sophie Oldfield.

ISBN:

9783868597806 ebook
3868597808 ebook
paperback
9783868597769

Subject:

City planning Economic aspects South Africa.
Municipal lighting Social aspects South Africa.
Cities and towns South Africa.
Apartheid.
Dunkelheit.
Feldforschung.
Kapstadt.
Khayelitsha.
Lichtinfrastruktur.
Solarlicht.
Staatsbürgerschaft.
Südafrika.
informelle Siedlung.
post-Apartheid.
urbane Segregation.
öffentliches Licht.
Villes Afrique du Sud.
Éclairage public Aspect social Afrique du Sud.
ARCHITECTURE / General.
Cape Town.
South Africa.
action research.
bottom-up.
citizenship.
darkness.
light infrastructure.
post-Apartheid urban planning.
public light.
southern urbanism.
township.
urban segregation.

Form/genre:

Electronic books.

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