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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 ... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Innovation; Afrika; Arbeit; Kapitalismus; Postkolonialismus; Sozialgeographie; Techniksoziologie; Geographie; Technologie; Kenia
Klassifikation
Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Makerspace; Space
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2024
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
297 S.
Schriftenreihe
Social and Cultural Geography, 21
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839467077
ISSN
2703-1659
ISBN
978-3-8394-6707-7
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet