Translating technology in Africa. Volume 1, Metrics. / edited by Richard Rottenburg, Faeeza Ballim, and Bronwyn Kotzen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rottenburg, Richard, editor.

Ballim, Faeeza, editor.

Kotzen, Bronwyn, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects--Africa.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2024]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-67835-2