"Electricity is Life"
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This work presents a phenomenological approach to interdisciplinary energy researchfrom a bottom-up perspective. The life-world methodology sheds light on multileveloff-grid energy governance in Namibia by exploring the process of modernization throughits four dimensions: differentiation, rationalization, individualization, anddomestication. This research concludes that a shift in (off-grid) energy governance isoccurring in tandem with the meaning of "electricity is Life" experienced through theenergy practices of everyday life.