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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Coban Alev"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Performing Technocapitalism : The Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya / / Alev Coban"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2024]"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2024"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9783839467077"]
[{"$nulls":4},"3839467071"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (298 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; ; 21"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"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"]
[null,null,null,"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. "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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."]