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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
Alev Coban (Dr.) is a feminist and digital geographer. She worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the Department of Human Geography at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. She studied African Development Studies of Geography, Law in Africa and Human Geography in Bayreuth and Frankfurt and Design Thinking at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam. Her research interests include Feminist and Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies, Affect and Care Theories, Digital Work, Emancipatory Technologies, Makerspaces, East Africa and Ethnography.
Zusammenfassung
Ursprungsland: DE
Zolltarifnummer: 49019900
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Geografie
Genre: Geowissenschaften, Mathematik, Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Technik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie
Inhalt: 298 S.
14 farbige Illustr.
14 Illustr.
ISBN-13: 9783837667073
ISBN-10: 3837667073
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Coban, Alev
Hersteller: Transcript Verlag
Gost, Roswitha, u. Karin Werner
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: transcript Verlag, Gero Wierichs, Hermannstr. 26, D-33602 Bielefeld, live@transcript-verlag.de
Abbildungen: 14 Farbabbildungen
Maße: 224 x 148 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Alev Coban
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.04.2024
Gewicht: 0,456 kg
Artikel-ID: 127187102

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