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SUMMARY:Mike Degani (Cambridge): Nun of the River: The material and spiri
 tual economies of small hydropower in rural Tanzania
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DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the significance of hydroelectric mini-gri
 ds owned and operated by Catholic sisterhoods in rural Tanzania\, situat
 ing them within a broader context of energy transition and environmental
  justice. The Tanzanian state is betting that mini-grids can effectively
  supplement the national grid’s limited reach\; since 2010 it has invest
 ed considerable effort in developing a regulatory framework that streaml
 ines licensing procedures and specifies feed-in tariffs. Today\, the fie
 ld is wide open and a range of ownership models – community\, private\, 
 state-owned – are unfolding on the ground with variable results regardin
 g their financial sustainability\, environmental impact\, and developmen
 tal outcomes. Though often overlooked in this discourse\, religious orde
 rs have a history of operating run-of-the-river power stations and other
  off-grid systems that stretches back into the colonial era. Such infras
 tructures anchor material and spiritual economies of rain\, care\, and c
 ash that straddle both community and commercially oriented modes of prov
 isioning. Their engagement with rural electrification schemes today sugg
 ests that in some ways this new paradigm of decentralized energy provisi
 on builds upon long-standing historical logics of patronage and politica
 l authority in marginal areas.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Hanson Room\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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