Space, time, and sociomaterial relationships: Moral aspects of the arrival of electricity in rural zanzibar

Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 164-176

  Winther, Tanja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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