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 Straeten.
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The world needs a decolonial space for the translation of circulating technology. Since this space will always be contested, it needs to be constantly re-created. With this volume we aim to encourage more praxiographic studies of this endeavour.
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Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributions Translating Technology in Africa  Richard Rottenburg 1 Technicisation: How to Create a Zone of Decolonial Translation? an Introductory Essay  Richard Rottenburg and Eva Riedke 2 PAYGo Water Dispensers and the Lifeworlds of Marketisation  Christiane Tristl and Marc Boeckler 3 Crude Texting: Mobile Phones and the Infrastructuring of Protest in Oil-Age Niger  Jannik Schritt 4 Between Providers and Users: Redistributors in Nairobi’s Fragmented Landscape of Electricity Provision  Jonas van der Straeten and Jochen Monstadt 5 The Measuring State: Technologies of Government in Uganda and Elsewhere  Sarah Biecker, Jude Kagoro and Klaus Schlichte 6 Biometric Data Doubles and the Technicisation of Personhood in Ghana  Alena Thiel 7 Project Time, Lifetime, and Extra Time: Technicisation of Mass HIV Treatment Programmes and the Acceleration of Pharmacy in Uganda  Sung-Joon Park Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9789004688278
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Brill
Vekt
377 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
220

Biografisk notat

Richard Rottenburg is professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research (WiSER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. The main objects of his inquiries are assemblages of evidence-making, their dependency on knowledge infrastructures and their entanglement with narrative forms of sense-making and technopolitics. Rottenburg is best known for his 2009 book Far-fetched Facts (MIT Press). Eva Riedke is assistant professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Konstanz. Her work has focused on post-apartheid controversies and their publics; exploring the entanglements of infrastructures with processes of financialisaton; and questions of “ethics” and “values” in energy transitions. She is currently pursuing a research project on solar off grid products and lived off the grid in rural Kenya. She has contributed a series of publications on the topic.