UID:
almahu_9949747871802882
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.
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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.
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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
Language:
English
Keywords:
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