Performing Technocapitalism : The Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya / / Alev Coban

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910861956203321
• Autore: Coban Alev
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2024]; ©2024
• ISBN: 9783839467077; 3839467071
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Collana: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; ; 21
• Soggetti: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.