Financializing water service provision with digital devices: pro-commercialization alliances and the securitization of revenue from the unbankable in Mathare, Nairobi

Tristl, Christiane

doi:10.1080/14747731.2023.2187560

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“…A small number of ethnographies of digital practices and technologies in African contexts exist. SeeJack and Avle (2021),Pollio (2020), andTristl (2023).…”

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Performing Technocapitalism

Coban

2024

Sozial- Und Kulturgeographie

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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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“…A small number of ethnographies of digital practices and technologies in African contexts exist. SeeJack and Avle (2021),Pollio (2020), andTristl (2023).…”

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