The Post-Global City: Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa by Pype, Katrien

The Post-Global City: Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780472077823)

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The Post-Global City: Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa by Pype, Katrien

The Post-Global City: Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa

$100.00
The Post-Global City: Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa by Pype, Katrien

The Post-Global City: Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Katrien Pype
ISBN-10: 0472077821
ISBN-13: 9780472077823
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
By Katrien Pype
By Katrien Pype
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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.

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