The Post-Global City seeks to open a new field of analytical inquiry that examines knowledge production and technological developments in urban Africa rooted in local, historical realities, while also partaking in transnational, global processes. This work explores the ways in which urban residents have utilized technologies and networks to operate around, under, and beyond the state and the international "order," and challenges the stereotypical images of Africa as a continent either devoid of technology or filled with either broken technologies or technologies from the Global North or Asia. This book focuses on accounts and critiques of new "Rising Africa" ideologies, examining megaprojects such as geothermal and hydroelectric plants with new networked startups that circumvent state and patriarchal hierarchies, women vendors selling online, youths designing and constructing oil refining technologies and tech startups working across diasporas.
Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork carried out in urban spaces in Nigeria, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Gabon, Cameroon, and Tanzania, The Post-Global City brings together voices from Africa, Europe, and the United States to inquire into the dialectics between technology and the urban on the African continent.
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11 illustrations, 1 table
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-0-472-07782-3 (9780472077823)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Katrien Pype is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven University and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.
Omolade Adunbi is Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies and the Director of the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan.
Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Biographies
Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Post-Global City Formations: Technology and Africa's Urban Futures
Omolade Adunbi, Katrien Pype, and Michael M.J. Fischer
Chapter 1: The Post-Global City. South-South Geographies and Political Affects in Kinshasa's Emerging Tech Scene
Katrien Pype
Chapter 2: Technologies of Dream Life and the Life of Dreams in Afrodystopia
Joseph Tonda, translated by Katrien Pype
Chapter 3. Inga as Enclave: the (dis)comfort of being serious men
Barbara Carbon
Chapter 4: Enchanting Urban Futures through Geothermal Explorations in Nakuru,
Kenya
Nick Rahier
Chapter 5: Dreaming about X-rays in Kikwit: Visibility, medical technology, and fracture care in an intermediate Congolese city
Trisha Phippard
Chapter 6: The << bend-skin >>, a connector in and co-constructor of Mbouda. Or, how post-global flows enable urban mobility
Vivien M. Meli, translated by Victoria Bernal and Katrien Pype
Chapter 7 Techni-city and co-citizenship: Campus connectivity in Tanzania
Koen Stroeken and Mohamed Ghasia
Chapter 8: Digital technology and urban entrepreneurship: gendered tactics of online entrepreneurship in and from pre-war Khartoum
Griet Steel
Chapter 9. The Oil Cities: Urbanity, Engineers, and Innovators in the Construction of Refineries in Nigeria
Omolade Adunbi
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Index
