What do science, technology, and innovation mean from Africa? /

What do science, technology, and innovation mean from Africa? / edited by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga.

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Clapperton Mavhunga's collection of essays about science, technology, and innovation (STI) from an African perspective opens with the idea, "Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere; when we insist that only?our? meaning is the meaning, we silence other people?s meanings."...

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Online Access: Full Text (via MIT Press)
Main Author: Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa, 1972- (Author, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Technology > Social aspects > Africa.
Science > Social aspects > Africa.
Technological innovations > Social aspects > Africa.
Creative ability in technology > Africa.
Industrial policy > Africa.
Creative ability in technology.
Industrial policy.
Manners and customs.
Science > Social aspects.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
Technology > Social aspects.
Africa > Social life and customs.
Africa.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What do science, technology, and innovation mean from Africa? / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
  • 1. The place of science and technology in our lives : making sense of possibilities / D.A. Masolo
  • 2. The language of science, technology, and innovation : a chimurenga way of seeing from dzimbahwe / Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
  • 3. The metalworker, the potter, and the pre-European African "laboratory" / Shadreck Chirikure
  • 4. Plants of bondage, limbo plants, and liberation flora : diasporic reflections for STS in Africa and Africa in STS / Geri Augusto
  • 5. Smartness from below : variations on technology and creativity in contemporary Kinshasa / Katrien Pype
  • 6. On the politics of generative justice : African traditions and maker communities / Ron Eglash and Ellen K. Foster
  • 7. Making mobiles African / Toluwalogo Odumosu
  • 8. Innovation for development : Africa / Garrick E. Louis, Neda Nazemi, and Scott Remer
  • 9. Science, technology, and innovation in Africa : conceptualizations, relevance and policy directions / Chux Daniels.

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