Post-Global City

Biographies
List of 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 Technicity and Co-Citizenship: Campus Connectivity in Tanzania
Koen Stroeken and Mohamed Ghasia
Chapter 8: Digital Technology and Urban Entrepreneurship: Gendered Tacticsof Online Entrepreneurship in and from Prewar 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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• Estudos étnicos
• Comunidades urbanas
• História africana

tech culture; technological appropriation; techniques; urban life; urbanization; globalization; post-globalization; medical technology; energy culture; utopia; dystopia; hope; dignity; digital economy; repair; repair shops; assemblage culture; engineers; South-South; screen culture; Africa Rising; futuring