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"How have African moral worlds changed since the 1990s? Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doing so, this collection of essays offers insight that develops a stronger grasp on the interaction between moral practices and discourses, and specific political, economic and social transformations taking place today in Africa. At the same time, while focusing on case studies from the African continent, the work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, providing to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope"--

Ethics --- Responsibility --- Africa --- Social conditions --- African Continent. --- Moral Practices and Discourses. --- Neoliberal Reforms. --- Regime Change Since the 1990s. --- Sub-Saharan African Societies.

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In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period has witnessed widespread illicit acts involving infrastructure, including the nonpayment of service charges, the bypassing of metering devices, and illegal connections to services. Democracy's Infrastructure shows how such administrative links to the state became a central political terrain during the antiapartheid struggle and how this terrain persists in the post-apartheid present. Focusing on conflicts surrounding prepaid water meters, Antina von Schnitzler examines the techno-political forms through which democracy takes shape.Von Schnitzler explores a controversial project to install prepaid water meters in Soweto-one of many efforts to curb the nonpayment of service charges that began during the antiapartheid struggle-and she traces how infrastructure, payment, and technical procedures become sites where citizenship is mediated and contested. She follows engineers, utility officials, and local bureaucrats as they consider ways to prompt Sowetans to pay for water, and she shows how local residents and activists wrestle with the constraints imposed by meters. This investigation of democracy from the perspective of infrastructure reframes the conventional story of South Africa's transition, foregrounding the less visible remainders of apartheid and challenging readers to think in more material terms about citizenship and activism in the postcolonial world.Democracy's Infrastructure examines how seemingly mundane technological domains become charged territory for struggles over South Africa's political transformation.

Mass media --- Communication in politics --- Citizenship --- Technology --- Political participation --- Political aspects --- Technological innovations --- South Africa --- Politics and government --- Operation Gcin'amanzi. --- Phiri. --- South Africa. --- Soweto Uprising. --- activism. --- administration. --- administrative terrain. --- agency. --- antiapartheid struggle. --- antiapartheid. --- apartheid. --- basic services. --- citizenship. --- corporatization. --- counterinsurgency. --- democracy. --- engineers. --- ethics. --- human rights. --- infrastructure. --- liberal democracy. --- measurement. --- neoliberal reforms. --- neoliberalism. --- nonpayment. --- numbers. --- payment. --- political terrain. --- power. --- prepaid meter. --- protests. --- rent boycotts. --- state obligation. --- state. --- subjectivity. --- technical devices. --- techno-political terrain. --- techno-politics. --- technology. --- water provision. --- water.

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The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken--casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. In Post-Soviet Social, Stephen Collier examines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. He turns attention from the noisy battles over stabilization and privatization during the 1990's to subsequent reforms that grapple with the mundane details of pipes, wires, bureaucratic routines, and budgetary formulas that made up the Soviet social state. Drawing on Michel Foucault's lectures from the late 1970's, Post-Soviet Social uses the Russian case to examine neoliberalism as a central form of political rationality in contemporary societies. The book's basic finding--that neoliberal reforms provide a justification for redistribution and social welfare, and may work to preserve the norms and forms of social modernity--lays the groundwork for a critical revision of conventional understandings of these topics.

Neoliberalism --- Biopolitics --- Post-communism --- Political behavior --- Neo-liberalism --- Economic aspects --- Russia (Federation) --- Economic policy --- Human behavior --- Political science --- Sociobiology --- Liberalism --- E-books --- Belaya Kalitva. --- Petrine absolutism. --- Rodniki. --- Russian absolutist state. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet cities. --- Soviet city-building. --- Soviet planning. --- Soviet social modernity. --- Soviet social. --- Washington Consensus. --- Window of Opportunity. --- architectural avant-garde. --- budgetary austerity. --- budgetary reform. --- budgets. --- bureaucratic structures. --- centralized heating systems. --- city plan. --- city-building. --- collectivity. --- communal services reform. --- formal rationalization. --- government budget. --- industrial production. --- industrialization. --- infrastructural social modernity. --- infrastructure crisis. --- infrastructures. --- khoziaistvo. --- labor. --- liberalization. --- market economy. --- material structure. --- neoliberal reform. --- neoliberal reforms. --- neoliberalism. --- political projects. --- political rationality. --- privatization. --- production. --- redistribution. --- resource flow. --- settlement. --- social government. --- social modernity. --- social welfare. --- socialism. --- sociality. --- spatial development. --- spatial layout. --- stabilization. --- structural adjustment. --- substantive provisioning. --- urban development. --- urban modernity. --- urban populations. --- urban utilities. --- urbanist discussions.