Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 2: Technicisation

Richard Rottenburg is professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research (WiSER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. The main objects of his inquiries are assemblages of evidence-making, their dependency on knowledge infrastructures and their entanglement with narrative forms of sense-making and technopolitics. Rottenburg is best known for his 2009 book Far-fetched Facts (MIT Press).Eva Riedke is assistant professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Konstanz. Her work has focused on post-apartheid controversies and their publics; exploring the entanglements of infrastructures with processes of financialisaton; and questions of “ethics” and “values” in energy transitions. She is currently pursuing a research project on solar off grid products and lived off the grid in rural Kenya. She has contributed a series of publications on the topic.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributionsTranslating Technology in AfricaRichard Rottenburg1 Technicisation: How to Create a Zone of Decolonial Translation? an Introductory EssayRichard Rottenburg and Eva Riedke2 PAYGo Water Dispensers and the Lifeworlds of MarketisationChristiane Tristl and Marc Boeckler3 Crude Texting: Mobile Phones and the Infrastructuring of Protest in Oil-Age NigerJannik Schritt4 Between Providers and Users: Redistributors in Nairobi’s Fragmented Landscape of Electricity ProvisionJonas van der Straeten and Jochen Monstadt5 The Measuring State: Technologies of Government in Uganda and ElsewhereSarah Biecker, Jude Kagoro and Klaus Schlichte6 Biometric Data Doubles and the Technicisation of Personhood in GhanaAlena Thiel7 Project Time, Lifetime, and Extra Time: Technicisation of Mass HIV Treatment Programmes and the Acceleration of Pharmacy in UgandaSung-Joon ParkIndex