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200 10$aPerforming Technocapitalism $eThe Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya /$fAlev Coban
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aBielefeld : $ctranscript Verlag, $d[2024]
210  4$dİ2024
215   $a1 online resource (298 p.)
225 0 $aSozial- und Kulturgeographie ;$v21
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327   $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tTechnical Remarks -- $tChapter 1 Introduction: The Postcolonial Making of Technology -- $tChapter 2 The Politics of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship -- $tPart I -- $tStorytelling: Affective Promises and Performances about Technology -- $tChapter 3 The Normativity of Kenya?s Tech Story -- $tChapter 4 Tangible Tech Stories ? The Embodied Performances of Visitor Tours -- $tChapter 5 Writing Media Stories ? The Socio-Technical Care Work of Storytelling -- $tChapter 6 Marketing Poverty ? The Conservatism of Social Impact Technologies -- $tPart I Conclusion: Technocapitalism ? An Affective Economy of Promises and Performances -- $tPart II -- $tMaking: The Careful and Calculative Manufacturing of Professional Products -- $tChapter 7 Hustle ? The Making of Technologies in Kenya -- $tChapter 8 Love ? The Careful Making of Technologies -- $tChapter 9 Fear ? The Calculative Making of Technologies -- $tChapter 10 Resisting ? Incalculable and Unloved Working Conditions -- $tPart II Conclusion: Technocapitalism?s Responsibilization to Calculate and Care (for Liberating Products) -- $tChapter 11 Conclusion: Performing Technocapitalism -- $tReferences
330   $aIn Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev Coban argues that postcolonial technology entrepreneurship is neoliberal and inherently political work. Technology developers, narratives, prototypes, and digital fabrication tools unite to achieve ambiguous Kenyan futures of technocapitalist market integration and decolonial emancipation in order to foster national well-being and disentangle Kenya from exploitative global structures.
410  0$aSozial- und Kulturgeographie Series
606   $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography$2bisacsh
610   $aAfrica.
610   $aCapitalism.
610   $aGeography.
610   $aMakerspace.
610   $aPostcolonialism.
610   $aSocial Geography.
610   $aSociology of Technology.
610   $aSpace.
610   $aTechnology.
610   $aWork.
615  7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
700   $aCoban$b Alev, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01740702
801  0$bDE-B1597
801  1$bDE-B1597
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