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OverviewIn Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to invest 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alev CobanPublisher: Transcript Verlag Imprint: Transcript Verlag Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9783837667073ISBN 10: 3837667073 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 18 June 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAlev Coban (Dr.) is a feminist and digital geographer. She worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the Department of Human Geography at Goethe-Universit�t Frankfurt. She studied African Development Studies of Geography, Law in Africa and Human Geography in Bayreuth and Frankfurt and Design Thinking at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam. Her research interests include Feminist and Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies, Affect and Care Theories, Digital Work, Emancipatory Technologies, Makerspaces, East Africa and Ethnography. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |