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oapen-20.500.12657-906702024-05-31T02:25:57Z Performing Technocapitalism Coban, Alev Innovation Africa Work Makerspace Capitalism Postcolonialism Technology Space Social Geography Sociology of Technology Geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTR National liberation and independence thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society 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. 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. 2024-05-30T14:00:54Z 2024-05-30T14:00:54Z 2024 book ONIX_20240530_9783839467077_10 9783839467077 9783837667073 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90670 eng Sozial- und Kulturgeographie application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9783839467077.pdf https://www.transcript-verlag.de/shopMedia/openaccess/pdf/oa9783839467077.pdf transcript Verlag 10.14361/9783839467077 10.14361/9783839467077 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c b17dc8f3-fb14-4542-8b6d-e3ad3f106417 a408546c-8a4a-48d4-adf4-dfaf4a6b6118 9783839467077 9783837667073 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt;Hans-Böckler-Stiftung 21 298 Bielefeld [...] [...] open access
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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. 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.
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