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Translating Technology in Africa : Technicisation : Volume 2 / Richard Rottenburg and Eva Riedke
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill BV, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First editionDescription: 1 Online-Ressource (217 pages)ISBN:- 9789004688285
- 303.4833096 23
- HC800.Z9
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Summary: This volume revisits one of the great challenges of our time - the global circulation of technology and the resulting technicisation. Together, the introductory essay and six case studies argue that while circulation inevitably leads to the global standardisation of some forms, successful technicisation depends on local appropriation that takes place in the interstitial zones of translation. These zones, characterised by their asymmetrical power relations, need to be constantly renegotiated, recreated, and maintained in order to sustain decolonial translations. The aim of this volume is to stimulate further experimental praxiographic studies of decolonial translation in processes of technicisation, and thereby ignite novel, forward-looking theoretical debates. Contributors are Sarah Biecker, Marc Boeckler, Jude Kagoro, Jochen Monstadt, Sung-Joon Park, Eva Riedke, Richard Rottenburg, Klaus Schlichte, Jannik Schritt, Alena Thiel, Christiane Tristl, Jonas van der StraetenPPN: PPN: 1922673935Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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 -- 1 Introduction -- 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 -- 1 Introduction -- 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 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Technicising Personhood -- 3 The Technicisation of Personhood in Ghana -- 3.1 The Biometric Ghanacard: Reshaping Identification through Data Innovations -- 3.2 The Political Consequences of Technicised Identification -- 4 Personhood and Identity through the Lens of Technology -- 4.1 Data Subjects, Data Doubles, and Human Kinds -- 5 Conclusion -- 7 Project Time, Lifetime, and Extra Time: Technicisation of Mass HIV Treatment Programmes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Acceleration and the Problem of Insight -- 3 Indicators and Progress in Global Health -- 3.1 More Patients -- 3.2 Extra Time and Regaining Insight -- 3.3 Regaining Pharmacy -- 4 Conclusion -- Index -- Back Cover.
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