03740nam 2200613Ia 450 991086195620332120251116152742.09783839467077383946707110.1515/9783839467077(CKB)31435289300041(DE-B1597)663333(DE-B1597)9783839467077(MiAaPQ)EBC31281501(Au-PeEL)EBL31281501(ScCtBLL)fcb6e554-7d0d-42ff-a148-3b1d6392ee05(Perlego)4185322(EXLCZ)993143528930004120240426h20242024 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPerforming Technocapitalism The Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya /Alev Coban1st ed.Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2024]©20241 online resource (298 p.)Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ;219783837667073 3837667073 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 -- ReferencesIn 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.Sozial- und Kulturgeographie SeriesSOCIAL SCIENCE / Human GeographybisacshAfrica.Capitalism.Geography.Makerspace.Postcolonialism.Social Geography.Sociology of Technology.Space.Technology.Work.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.Coban Alevauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1740702DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910861956203321Performing Technocapitalism4166499UNINA