Performing technocapitalism : the politics and affects of postcolonial technology entrepreneurship in Kenya /
"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,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript,
2024.
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| Series: | Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ;
Bd. 21. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| ISBN: | 3839467071 9783839467077 |
| ISSN: | 2703-1640 ; |