Translating Technology in Africa.

Translating Technology in Africa. / Volume 1, : Metrics / / Richard Rottenburg, Faeeza Ballim, Bronwyn Kotzen.

Brings together authors from different disciplines who engage with Science and Technology Studies (STS) to stimulate curiosity about the diversity of sociotechnical assemblages on the African continent. The contributions provide detailed praxeographic examinations of technologies at work in postcolo...

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VerfasserIn:
Rottenburg, Richard,
Ballim, Faeeza,
Kotzen, Bronwyn,
TeilnehmendeR:
Ballim, Faeeza,
Kotzen, Bronwyn,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (180 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Richard Rottenburg
  • Weighing the Forest: Field Measurements, Remote Sensing, and Carbon Payments in Central Africa / Véra Ehrenstein
  • Privacy, Privation, and Person: Data, Debt, and Infrastructured Personhood / Emma Park and Kevin P. Donovan
  • 'Graduates-as-a-Service': Running a Data Factory in Northern Uganda / René Umlauf
  • On the Technopolitics and Metrics of the Right to Information / Jonathan Klaaren
  • Human and Machine Concept Possession / Helen Robertson
  • The Dual Metrics of Contemporary Yorùbá Life / Helen Verran.

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