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Performing Technocapitalism: The Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya
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Abstract 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 ... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
innovation; Africa; labor; capitalism; post-colonialism; social geography; sociology of technology; geography; technology; Kenya
Classification
Economic and Social Geography
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
Makerspace; Space
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
297 p.
Series
Social and Cultural Geography, 21
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839467077
ISSN
2703-1659
ISBN
978-3-8394-6707-7
Status
Published Version; reviewed