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    Performing Technocapitalism : The Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya (2024)
    Bielefeld :transcript Verlag,
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    Format: 1 online resource (298 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839467077 , 3839467071
    Series Statement: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; 21
    Content: In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev Coban argues that postcolonial technology entrepreneurship is neoliberal and inherently political work. Technology developers, narratives, prototypes, and digital fabrication tools unite to achieve ambiguous Kenyan futures of technocapitalist market integration and decolonial emancipation in order to foster national well-being and disentangle Kenya from exploitative global structures.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgements -- , Technical Remarks -- , Chapter 1 Introduction: The Postcolonial Making of Technology -- , Chapter 2 The Politics of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship -- , Part I -- , Storytelling: Affective Promises and Performances about Technology -- , Chapter 3 The Normativity of Kenya’s Tech Story -- , Chapter 4 Tangible Tech Stories – The Embodied Performances of Visitor Tours -- , Chapter 5 Writing Media Stories – The Socio-Technical Care Work of Storytelling -- , Chapter 6 Marketing Poverty – The Conservatism of Social Impact Technologies -- , Part I Conclusion: Technocapitalism – An Affective Economy of Promises and Performances -- , Part II -- , Making: The Careful and Calculative Manufacturing of Professional Products -- , Chapter 7 Hustle – The Making of Technologies in Kenya -- , Chapter 8 Love – The Careful Making of Technologies -- , Chapter 9 Fear – The Calculative Making of Technologies -- , Chapter 10 Resisting – Incalculable and Unloved Working Conditions -- , Part II Conclusion: Technocapitalism’s Responsibilization to Calculate and Care (for Liberating Products) -- , Chapter 11 Conclusion: Performing Technocapitalism -- , References , In English.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9783837667073
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    Language: English
    Subjects: Geography
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
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    Performing Technocapitalism : The Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya. (2024)
    Bielefeld :transcript Verlag,
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    Format: 1 online resource (299 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783839467077
    Series Statement: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie Series
    Note: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Technical Remarks -- Anonymization -- Language -- Gender -- Kiswahili -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Postcolonial Making of Technology -- 1.1 Situating the Silicon Savannah: Postcolonial Positionalities in Technocapitalism -- The Situatedness of Technology Development -- Colonial Trajectories in Science and Technology -- Emancipatory Struggles over Positionalities -- 1.2 Affects at Work: Making Technologies, Stories, and Positionalities -- The Sticky Geography of Affects -- Affects and Work(place) -- 1.3 Methods and Sites: An Ethnography of Tech Entrepreneurship -- Relational Positionalities: A Caring Yet Exploitative Researcher -- 1.4 Book Overview -- Chapter 2 The Politics of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship -- 2.1 Kenyan Industrial Policies: Striving for Global Market Integration and Improved Living Standards -- The Recurring Attempts at Industrialization in Sub‐Saharan Africa's Postcolonial History -- Fulfilling Africa's Rising through a Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Digital Industrialization as the 'African' Way to Decolonial Modernity -- 2.2 Staging the Technology Entrepreneur -- Neoliberal Entrepreneurs… -- …with a Decolonial Agenda -- 2.3 Conclusion: The Making of Technologies to Industrialize and Decolonize Kenya's Future -- Part I -- Storytelling: Affective Promises and Performances about Technology -- Defining Ubiquitous Terms: Story and Narrative -- Research Lens: Analyzing the Performative Productivity of Kenya's Tech Story -- The Performative Normativity and Affectivity of Stories -- The Embodied Work of Storytelling -- The Agency of Stories to Script Positionalities -- Overview: The Storytelling Chapters -- Chapter 3 The Normativity of Kenya's Tech Story -- 3.1 The Single Story about Kenyan Technology Development. , 3.2 Heroism and its Missing Parts: The Universalization of a Partial Story -- Presences: Linearity, Heroism, and Unexpectedness -- Linearity -- Heroism -- Unexpectedness -- Absences: Daily (Work) Life and its Complexities -- 3.3 Precarity and Exoticization: The Narrative Production of Norms and Affects -- Heroism and Linearity as Drivers of Responsibilization -- Wonder and Unexpectedness as Drivers of Exoticization -- 3.4 Conclusion: A Narrative Closure of Kenyan Technology Development -- Chapter 4 Tangible Tech Stories - The Embodied Performances of Visitor Tours -- 4.1 Visitor Tours as Touristic Events -- 4.2 Scripted Stories Script Nairobi's Tech Places -- 4.3 Feelings of Objectification -- 4.4 Conclusion: The Affective Ambiguities of Performing Stories -- Chapter 5 Writing Media Stories - The Socio‐Technical Care Work of Storytelling -- 5.1 Writing Stories along Technoscientific Narrative Norms -- 5.2 The Lack of Innovation Stories -- 5.3 The Absence of Technical Infrastructures -- 5.4 Conclusion: The Careful Making of Media Stories -- Chapter 6 Marketing Poverty - The Conservatism of Social Impact Technologies -- 6.1 'Made in Africa, for Africa': An Empowering Brand -- Social Impact Technologies as Community Care -- Technologies as Discursive Intervention -- 6.2 'Made in Africa, for Africa': Marketing's Performance of Poverty -- Investors' Expectations of Social Impact -- Postcolonial Genealogy of Technologies for Social Impact -- 6.3 Negotiating Investment's Postcolonial Power Asymmetries -- The Conservatism of Performing Poverty -- 6.4 Conclusion: Emancipatory Moments within the Capitalization of Poverty -- Part I Conclusion: Technocapitalism - An Affective Economy of Promises and Performances -- Part II -- Making: The Careful and Calculative Manufacturing of Professional Products -- (Re‑)Making Positionalities by Performing Professionalism. , Empowered by Professional Technologies -- The Particularities of Postcolonial Making -- Overview: The Making Chapters -- Chapter 7 Hustle - The Making of Technologies in Kenya -- 7.1 The Scarcity of Prototyping Resources -- 7.2 The Scarcity of Financial Resources -- 7.3 Conclusion: The Challenges of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 8 Love - The Careful Making of Technologies -- 8.1 The Art of Making Technology -- 8.2 Caring Human‐Machine Relations -- 8.3 Conclusion: The Socio‐Technical Care for Professionalism -- Chapter 9 Fear - The Calculative Making of Technologies -- 9.1 Fear of Unprofessionalism: Calculating Scarcity -- 9.2 Fear of Theft: Calculating Competition -- 9.3 Conclusion: The Responsibilization of Surviving in Technocapitalism -- Chapter 10 Resisting - Incalculable and Unloved Working Conditions -- 10.1 The Incalculability of Technology Development -- 10.2 Unloved Design and Calculation Work -- 10.3 (Resisting) Positionalities within the Workplace -- 10.4 Conclusion: The Resistant Appropriation of Making -- Part II Conclusion: Technocapitalism's Responsibilization to Calculate and Care (for Liberating Products) -- Chapter 11 Conclusion: Performing Technocapitalism -- 11.1 Postcolonial Technocapitalist Positionalities -- 11.2 Technocapitalism and its Affective Promises and Performances -- 11.3 Performing Poverty and Professionalism: The (Re‑)Production of Norms -- 11.4 The Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship -- 11.5 Africanfuturist Speculation on Emancipation -- References.
    Additional Edition: Print version: Coban, Alev Performing Technocapitalism Bielefeld : transcript Verlag,c2024 ISBN 9783837667073
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    Performing Technocapitalism : The Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya (2024)
    Transcript Verlag
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    Format: 1 online resource
    ISBN: 9783839467077 , 3839467071
    Content: In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev Coban argues that postcolonial technology entrepreneurship is neoliberal and inherently political work. Technology developers, narratives, prototypes, and digital fabrication tools unite to achieve ambiguous Kenyan futures of technocapitalist market integration and decolonial emancipation in order to foster national well-being and disentangle Kenya from exploitative global structures.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgements -- , Technical Remarks -- , Chapter 1 Introduction: The Postcolonial Making of Technology -- , Chapter 2 The Politics of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship -- , Part I -- , Storytelling: Affective Promises and Performances about Technology -- , Chapter 3 The Normativity of Kenya's Tech Story -- , Chapter 4 Tangible Tech Stories -- The Embodied Performances of Visitor Tours -- , Chapter 5 Writing Media Stories -- The Socio-Technical Care Work of Storytelling -- , Chapter 6 Marketing Poverty -- The Conservatism of Social Impact Technologies -- , Part I Conclusion: Technocapitalism -- An Affective Economy of Promises and Performances -- , Part II -- , Making: The Careful and Calculative Manufacturing of Professional Products -- , Chapter 7 Hustle -- The Making of Technologies in Kenya -- , Chapter 8 Love -- The Careful Making of Technologies -- , Chapter 9 Fear -- The Calculative Making of Technologies -- , Chapter 10 Resisting -- Incalculable and Unloved Working Conditions -- , Part II Conclusion: Technocapitalism's Responsibilization to Calculate and Care (for Liberating Products) -- , Chapter 11 Conclusion: Performing Technocapitalism -- , References
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