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dc.contributor.authorCoban, Alev
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-30T14:00:54Z
dc.date.available2024-05-30T14:00:54Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifierONIX_20240530_9783839467077_10
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90670
dc.description.abstractIn 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSozial- und Kulturgeographie
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTR National liberation and independence
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society
dc.subject.otherInnovation
dc.subject.otherAfrica
dc.subject.otherWork
dc.subject.otherMakerspace
dc.subject.otherCapitalism
dc.subject.otherPostcolonialism
dc.subject.otherTechnology
dc.subject.otherSpace
dc.subject.otherSocial Geography
dc.subject.otherSociology of Technology
dc.subject.otherGeography
dc.titlePerforming Technocapitalism
dc.title.alternativeThe Politics and Affects of Postcolonial Technology Entrepreneurship in Kenya
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14361/9783839467077
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oapen.relation.isbn9783839467077
oapen.relation.isbn9783837667073
oapen.collectionGoethe-Universität Frankfurt;Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
oapen.series.number21
oapen.pages298
oapen.place.publicationBielefeld
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