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Verfasst von:	Coban, Alev [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Performing technocapitalism
Titelzusatz:	the politics and affects of postcolonial technology entrepreneurship in Kenya
Verf.angabe:	Alev Coban
Verlagsort:	Bielefeld
Verlag:	transcript
Jahr:	2024
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (297 Seiten)
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; volume 21
Schrift/Sprache:	In English
Ang. zum Inhalt:	Frontmatter
	Contents
	Acknowledgements
	Technical Remarks
	Chapter 1 Introduction: The Postcolonial Making of Technology
	Chapter 2 The Politics of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship
	Part I
	Storytelling: Affective Promises and Performances about Technology
	Chapter 3 The Normativity of Kenya’s Tech Story
	Chapter 4 Tangible Tech Stories – The Embodied Performances of Visitor Tours
	Chapter 5 Writing Media Stories – The Socio-Technical Care Work of Storytelling
	Chapter 6 Marketing Poverty – The Conservatism of Social Impact Technologies
	Part I Conclusion: Technocapitalism – An Affective Economy of Promises and Performances
	Part II
	Making: The Careful and Calculative Manufacturing of Professional Products
	Chapter 7 Hustle – The Making of Technologies in Kenya
	Chapter 8 Love – The Careful Making of Technologies
	Chapter 9 Fear – The Calculative Making of Technologies
	Chapter 10 Resisting – Incalculable and Unloved Working Conditions
	Part II Conclusion: Technocapitalism’s Responsibilization to Calculate and Care (for Liberating Products)
	Chapter 11 Conclusion: Performing Technocapitalism
	References
Hochschulschrift:	Dissertation, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 2021
ISBN:	978-3-8394-6707-7
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 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
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Dokumenttyp:	Hochschulschrift
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Coban, Alev: Performing technocapitalism. - 1. Auflage. - Bielefeld : transcript, 2024. - 297 Seiten
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