Coban, Alev. 2018. “Making Hardware in Nairobi: Between Revolutionary Practices and Restricting Imaginations.” The Journal of Peer Production, no. 12 (July).
AO: In this 2018 paper by Alev Coban, she finds that despite the seemingly radical potential of technology "making" in the global South to shift global asymmetries of power, postcolonial power asymmetries persist in relations between Western investors and start-ups/makers, structured by a tech-deterministic desire and incentive by investors to build technologies with "social impact."
Alev Coban, "Coban, Alev. 2018. “Making Hardware in Nairobi: Between Revolutionary Practices and Restricting Imaginations.” The Journal of Peer Production, no. 12 (July).", contributed by Angela Okune, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 1 August 2018, accessed 30 December 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/coban-alev-2018-“making-hardware-nairobi-between-revolutionary-practices-and-restricting
Critical Commentary
AO: In this 2018 paper by Alev Coban, she finds that despite the seemingly radical potential of technology "making" in the global South to shift global asymmetries of power, postcolonial power asymmetries persist in relations between Western investors and start-ups/makers, structured by a tech-deterministic desire and incentive by investors to build technologies with "social impact."