26. Tinker, Tiller, Technical Change: Peoples’ technology and innovation off the farm

Gamser, Matthew; Appleton, Helen; Warren, D. M.; Slikkerveer, L. J.; Brokensha, David

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“…Local technologies also tend to be more ecologically sound. Gamsen and Appleton (1995) assert that most peoples' technology users belong to groups that are traditionally marginalized and that have both low profile and low social status. These groups include women, the landless and the rural poor.…”

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Rural women and technology in South Africa: Case studies from KwaZulu-Natal Province

Bob

2004

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This article contributes to a greater understanding of the linkages between women's roles, responsibilities and their use of technology in poor rural communities. The ways in which poor rural women conceptualize technology is examined. Furthermore, how they use their knowledge and skills to develop, modify and adapt the techniques and technical processes in which they are involved are also explored. Additionally, the links between indigenous and modern technologies in relation to gender considerations in poor rural contexts are examined. This article draws from findings of primary research undertaken in two marginalized rural communities in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. The study reveals that the use of technologies are highly gendered and differentiated among women. Poor rural women utilize a range of technologies in both productive and reproductive activities which are central to their livelihood strategies, especially at the household level. Furthermore, although women are adapting and innovating technologies their expertise remains largely unrecognized. A range of problems and constraints exist which limit women's access to and use of technologies. A key tension identified in the study is that between the use of locallybased, indigenous technologies and modern, external technologies.

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“…The literature identifies the following factors that contributes to the neglect of women's technological know-how (Saito and Spurling, 1992;Mijindadi, 1993;Appleton, 1995;Gamsen and Appleton, 1995;Manilla, 1999;Oladele, 2000):…”

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Rural women and technology in South Africa: Case studies from KwaZulu-Natal Province

Bob

2004

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“…Gamser et al, 5 conceive technology as an amalgamation of knowledge, equipment and skills to provide services and goods to a given populace. Broadly speaking, technology can be taken to include a wide range of behaviour to accomplish things: that affect the welfare of the people, in such areas as interactions and communication, production of foodstuffs, settling disputes, work attitudes shelter and transportation to mention but these One interesting thing about technology is that societies develop their specific procedures of doing things though these procedures are subject to change.…”

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Contemporary international system, aligning technology with Nigeria’s foreign policy

Adigbuo¹

2023

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Technology has always played a crucial role in global politics, security, economics and culture. It has continuously shaped the structure of the global system, its actors, and the relations between them and vice versa. Yet analysts have down played its importance. Despite its benign neglect, international politics is tailored by technology. Technology is understood as an integral component of the international system that fashions global interactions and itself is affected by global politics, economics, and culture. This essay argues that to understand the transformation in global affairs, technology has to be integrated more systematically into the theoretical discussions of International Relations (IR). To achieve this objective, an interdisciplinary approach that systematically incorporates insights of Science and Technology Studies (S&TS) into IR is deployed; this method provides a better perception of how technology, politics and the international system interact with each other. In so doing, it opens the field of IR to a wealthier understanding of how global systemic change is affected by technology and how international economics, politics, and culture impact technological evolution.

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Culture & historical knowledge in Africa: A Cabralian approach

Ishemo¹

2004

Review of African Political Economy

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This article will seek to examine the current debates about what some have characterised as an information age, a network society in the context of capitalist globalisation and its socio-cultural and political implications. It will seek to problematise the problem historically and to argue for the continued relevance of the role of history and culture in the shaping of African approaches to the so-called information revolution. It will argue that the dominant perspective on the significance of the communication and information technologies in the African socio-economic, political and cultural processes have been based on the resuscitated modernisation theories and a resurgent neo-liberal ideology which seeks to legitimize the capitalist counter-revolution on a world scale. The re-colonisation of Africa and much of the countries of the South has been accompanied by a crisis whose profoundly devastating effects on humanity are very well known. Debates as to resolve the worldwide crisis have included the role that communication and information technologies might play. It will be suggested that this has resulted in problems that are synonymous to those which Amilcar Cabral and others sought to confront and shape the intellectual tools that guided the national liberation struggle. In the current historical epoch, those intellectual tools are relevant in the struggle for the re-humanisation of humanity. They will be characterised by what Fidel Castro has termed the ‘battle of ideas’. It will be suggested that this will be best waged through the recovery of the positive cultural and historical knowledge of the African people and the selective borrowing and re-adaptation of positive cultural and intellectual tools from other societies. That will result in the liberation of the processes of the development of the productive forces. A liberatory use of information and communication technologies has to be concretized in the socio-cultural realities of Africa.

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26. Tinker, Tiller, Technical Change: Peoples’ technology and innovation off the farm

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Rural women and technology in South Africa: Case studies from KwaZulu-Natal Province

Rural women and technology in South Africa: Case studies from KwaZulu-Natal Province

Contemporary international system, aligning technology with Nigeria’s foreign policy

Culture & historical knowledge in Africa: A Cabralian approach

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