| 书目名称 | Fabricating Silicon Savannah |
| 副标题 | The Making Of A Digi |
| 编辑 | Michel Njeri Wahome |
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| 概述 | A comprehensive overview of technology start-up arenas in Nairobi.Investigates assumptions about sites of the production of commercialization of digital technologies.Advances the discourse on globalis |
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| 描述 | .This book provides a comprehensive overview of technology start-up arenas in Nairobi and examines their global place. These start-ups are popularly perceived as representing future prosperity that is incorporated in the present. The author examines how developing country arenas lay bare the power asymmetries and taken-for-granted assumptions that determine which technoscientific imaginaries become globalized and universal, and are supported by legitimizing narratives, logics and institutions. A framing of ‘catch-up’ or ‘leapfrogging’ for technoscientific development that is based on capitalist modernity is regarded as incontrovertible—so much so that alternative values and approaches to technology production are rarely contemplated. This book documents how actors in Nairobi’s startup arena relate to these imaginaries and the affects, enactments and places that they produce.. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2023 |
| 关键词 | digital entrepreneurship in Africa; ICT4D; Silicon Savannah; entrepreneurship in context; Nairobi tech s |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34490-9 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-34492-3 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-34490-9 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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