The Post-Global City
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...
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Michigan State University Press
2026
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1732052026-03-01T07:56:08Z The Post-Global City Pype, Katrien Adunbi, Omolade Fischer, Michael M.J. 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 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies 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. 2026-03-01T07:56:03Z 2026-03-01T07:56:03Z 2026-02-28T19:53:18Z 2026 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110235 9780472905430 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173205 eng African Perspectives open access Michigan State University Press University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.14600788 10.3998/mpub.14600788 aa7f6664-5117-41d8-90f8-c3af56526b92 9780472905430 University of Michigan Press 276 open access |
| spellingShingle | 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 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies The Post-Global City |
| title | The Post-Global City |
| title_full | The Post-Global City |
| title_fullStr | The Post-Global City |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Post-Global City |
| title_short | The Post-Global City |
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| topic | 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 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies |
| topic_facet | 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 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies |
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