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The Post-Global City : Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa
The Post-Global City : Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa
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ISBN No.: 9780472057825
Pages: 276
Year: 202603
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 53.60
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

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 Bibliography Index.



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