ISBN:
9789004688285
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
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DDC:
303.4833096
Keywords:
Information technology-Africa
Abstract:
The world needs a decolonial space for the translation of circulating technology. Since this space will always be contested, it needs to be constantly re-created. With this volume we aim to encourage more praxiographic studies of this endeavour.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Notes on Contributions -- Translating Technology in Africa -- 1 Probing a Problematisation: Technology's Circulation and Transmorphism -- 2 Probing Concepts: Assemblage, Translation, Transmorphism and Archive -- 3 Probing Themes: Metrics, Technicisation, Infrastructures, Technoscapes, Devices -- 1 On Technicisation: How to Create a Zone of Decolonial Translation? -- 1 The Argument -- 2 Introduction -- 3 Translation -- 3.1 Travelling Technologies and Translation -- 3.2 Translation and Routinisation -- 3.3 Innovation, Translation, and the Technological Archive -- 4 Technicisation -- 4.1 Lifeworld and Technology -- 4.2 Lifeworld as Technicisation -- 4.3 Technicised Sensemaking -- 4.4 Technicisation and Decolonisation -- 5 The Case Studies -- 6 Conclusion -- 2 PAYGo Water Dispensers and the Lifeworlds of Marketisation -- 1 Introduction: Making Sense of Water Provision -- 2 The Advent and Reoccurrence of Market Principles in the Water Sector -- 3 PAYGo Dispensers, Philanthrocapitalism and the New Technopolitics of Development -- 4 Marketisation, De-scription and the "Waiver of Sense" -- 5 The De-scription of a Market Device -- 5.1 Designing an Intuitive User Interface -- 5.2 The Morality of the Market -- 5.3 Pay-as-you-drink -- 5.4 MPesa and Sticky Water -- 5.5 The Negotiability of Twenty Litres -- 5.6 Self-reliant and Individualised Human Users? -- 6 Conclusion: the Lifeworlds of Marketisation -- 3 Crude Texting: Mobile Phones and the Infrastructuring of Protests in Oil-Age Niger -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mobilising People for an Uprising -- 2.1 New Media and "Politics by Proxy" -- 2.2 Poor Infrastructures and Commercial Contingencies -- 2.3 Politics from Above and Below -- 3 Conclusion.
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