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This volume revisits one of the great challenges of our time - the global circulation of technology and the resulting technicisation. Together, the introductory essay and six case studies argue that while circulation inevitably leads to the global standardisation of some forms, successful technicisation depends on local appropriation that takes place in the interstitial zones of translation. These zones, characterised by their asymmetrical power relations, need to be constantly renegotiated, recreated, and maintained in order to sustain decolonial translations. The aim of this volume is to stimulate further experimental praxiographic studies of decolonial translation in processes of technicisation, and thereby ignite novel, forward-looking theoretical debates.
Contributors are Sarah Biecker, Marc Boeckler, Jude Kagoro, Jochen Monstadt, Sung-Joon Park, Eva Riedke, Richard Rottenburg, Klaus Schlichte, Jannik Schritt, Alena Thiel, Christiane Tristl, Jonas van der Straeten.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributions
Translating Technology in Africa
Richard Rottenburg
1 Technicisation: How to Create a Zone of Decolonial Translation? an Introductory Essay
Richard Rottenburg and Eva Riedke
2 PAYGo Water Dispensers and the Lifeworlds of Marketisation
Christiane Tristl and Marc Boeckler
3 Crude Texting: Mobile Phones and the Infrastructuring of Protest in Oil-Age Niger
Jannik Schritt
4 Between Providers and Users: Redistributors in Nairobi's Fragmented Landscape of Electricity Provision
Jonas van der Straeten and Jochen Monstadt
5 The Measuring State: Technologies of Government in Uganda and Elsewhere
Sarah Biecker, Jude Kagoro and Klaus Schlichte
6 Biometric Data Doubles and the Technicisation of Personhood in Ghana
Alena Thiel
7 Project Time, Lifetime, and Extra Time: Technicisation of Mass HIV Treatment Programmes and the Acceleration of Pharmacy in Uganda
Sung-Joon Park
Index
