ISBN:
90-04-67835-2
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (180 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
DDC:
303.4833096
Keywords:
Information technology
;
Postcolonialism
Abstract:
Brings together authors from different disciplines who engage with Science and Technology Studies (STS) to stimulate curiosity about the diversity of sociotechnical assemblages on the African continent. The contributions provide detailed praxeographic examinations of technologies at work in postcolonial contexts. The series of 5 volumes aims to catalyse the development of a field of research that is still in its infancy in Africa and promises to offer novel insights into past, present, and future challenges and opportunities facing the continent. The first volume, on "Metrics", explores practices of quantification and digitisation. The chapters examine how numbers are aggregated and how the resulting metrics shape new realities.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Richard Rottenburg -- Weighing the Forest: Field Measurements, Remote Sensing, and Carbon Payments in Central Africa / Véra Ehrenstein -- Privacy, Privation, and Person: Data, Debt, and Infrastructured Personhood / Emma Park and Kevin P. Donovan -- 'Graduates-as-a-Service': Running a Data Factory in Northern Uganda / René Umlauf -- On the Technopolitics and Metrics of the Right to Information / Jonathan Klaaren -- Human and Machine Concept Possession / Helen Robertson -- The Dual Metrics of Contemporary Yorùbá Life / Helen Verran.
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