Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 2

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rottenburg, Richard

Contributor:

Riedke, Eva

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Africa.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Boston BRILL 2024

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

4 Between Providers and Users: Redistributors in Nairobi's

2 Urban Electrification in Africa

3 Power System Building and Reforms in Kenya: a Brief History

4 The Everyday Visibility of Electricity in Nairobi's Splintered Supply Landscape

4.1 Formalising Redistribution or "Informalising" the System? the Slum Electrification Programmes

4.2 Securing Power in Affluent Neighbourhoods

5 Conclusion

5 The Measuring State: Technologies of Government in Uganda and Elsewhere

2 Technologies of Government

2.1 Budget Support: Failed Attempts of Measuring the State

2.2 Files: the Papery Heart of the State

2.3 Drunk Driving Operations

3 What Have We Learned about Technicisation and Domination?

6 Biometric Data Doubles and the Technicisation of Personhood in Ghana

2 Technicising Personhood

3 The Technicisation of Personhood in Ghana

3.1 The Biometric Ghanacard: Reshaping Identification through Data Innovations

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record

3.2 The Political Consequences of Technicised Identification

Other Format:

Print version Rottenburg, Richard Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 2: Technicisation

ISBN:

9004688285

9789004688285

OCLC:

1455128690

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