Off the Grid: Prepaid Power and the Political Economy of Waste in Palestine

Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Sophia

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“…As she drove away, I watched the neighborhood cats gather to feast on the scattered bread (see Figure 9.2). The circulation of bread in ‘Akka, and in other Palestinian places (see Stamatopoulou‐Robbins 2015, 322–23; Stamatopoulou‐Robbins 2020), is understood variously as a practice of care, reciprocity, and religious ethics. Discarding bread as trash is widely considered haram (forbidden by Islamic law), but the circulation of old bread in ‘Akka, by Muslims and Christians alike, is telling in the ways that it sustains relations to the city as a community of human and other‐than‐human constituents.…”

Section: Surface Interventionsmentioning

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9 Resisting and Remaking Heritage Work: An Archaeology of the Surface in Acre's Old City

Taylor

2022

Archaeological Papers of the American

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The Old City of Acre (‘Akka) is home to a predominantly Palestinian community within the larger Israeli municipality of Acre. Bounded by late eighteenth and early nineteenth century land and sea walls, the Old City's dense mix of Ottoman and Crusader‐era architecture sits on a peninsula less than one square kilometer in area on the Mediterranean coast. In 2001, the World Heritage Committee designated the Old City as a UNESCO World Heritage site, intensifying the Israeli state project of developing the city as an international tourist attraction. This chapter examines contemporary interventions on the surfaces of the Old City by way of photographic surface survey. Documented surface interventions include residents’ deposition of bread for animals to eat and fishermen to use as bait and surface adornments that reflect local aesthetic values. An archaeological analysis draws attention to an expansive repertoire of local care practices. Residents selectively appropriate the language and work of “heritage” to represent their own histories and serve their own aspirations against the grain of the state project, offering an alternative theorization of heritage that insists on maintaining ‘Akka as at once a historic and livable space.

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Section: Surface Interventionsmentioning

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9 Resisting and Remaking Heritage Work: An Archaeology of the Surface in Acre's Old City

Taylor

2022

Archaeological Papers of the American

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As South Africa’s cities burn: we can clean-up, but we cannot sweep away inequality

Kalina

2021

Local Environment

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In July 2021, large swathes of South Africa experienced several days of intense violence and looting, nominally stemming from political causes, but rooted more deeply in spiraling inequality and growing poverty. As the violence slowed, the "clean-up", began immediately, with South Africa's citizens banding together to sweep away the collected waste and debris left behind. Yet, as South Africa's most populous provinces burned, the detritus of their destruction is another poignant reminder that without addressing growing inequality, both domestically and globally, it will always be one-step forward, two-steps backwards for trying to create cleaner communities and to solving our interconnected waste management and climate change challenges. Written in the aftermath of July's events, the purpose of this viewpoint is to call for a centering of inequality within waste management academic discourse. Inequality, and its causes, must move from the fringe, to the mainstream within our collective body of work. Specifically, we must continuously, and meaningfully, engage with the systemic socioeconomic and socio-political conditions responsible for our waste problems if we are to address them. Moreover, we, as academics should always be mindful of the ways in which our work relates to, or possibly contributes to, inequality, through (in)accessibility within communities or to systemic inequalities between the Global North and the Global South.

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Contribution of Simplicity of Prepaid LUKU Meter Billing System on Property Tax Revenue Collection in Moshi Municipality, Tanzania

Mwanjala,

Mayala,

Komba

2024

IJEF

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The simplicity of electronic systems, including prepaid billing systems, has been said to simplify life for clients and service providers. The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) collects property tax through the Lipa Umeme Kadili Utumiavyo (LUKU) prepaid electricity billing system. This study sought to establish the influence of the systems simplicity on property revenue collection by TRA in Moshi Municipality. A concurrent research design with a mixed research approach was employed. The study was informed by the ability to pay principal theory. The study population was 14,364 premises installed with LUKU meters in the study area. A sample size of 192, determined by Fisher (1991), was used. A questionnaire was used to collect primary. Secondary data was obtained using a documentary review guide to gather data from audited reports of TRA from the financial year 2018/2019 to 2022 Slash 2023 (5 years). Content validity was used to ensure the instruments validity, while reliability was ensured through testre test measures. A statistical package for social science (SPSS) was used as an aid for data analysis where the regression models were run. The study anticipated an observable relationship between the simplicity of the LUKU system and property tax collection (independent and dependent variables), respectively. The study established that the simplicity of the LUKU system contributes to property tax collection in the study area at p value Less Then 0.05. The study concluded that the simplicity of use of the LUKU prepaid billing system has increased property tax revenue collection for TRA. It is recommended that TANESCO convert more meters into prepaid, as it will enhance property tax revenue collection capabilities and, at the same time, reduce costs associated with collection.

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Off the Grid: Prepaid Power and the Political Economy of Waste in Palestine

Cited by 3 publications

References 31 publications

9 Resisting and Remaking Heritage Work: An Archaeology of the Surface in Acre's Old City

9 Resisting and Remaking Heritage Work: An Archaeology of the Surface in Acre's Old City

As South Africa’s cities burn: we can clean-up, but we cannot sweep away inequality

Contribution of Simplicity of Prepaid LUKU Meter Billing System on Property Tax Revenue Collection in Moshi Municipality, Tanzania

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