Across eleven varied and lively chapters, Technoscientific Globalisation from Below provides fresh perspectives on how global asymmetries in wealth and resources stimulate technological innovation across the Global South. Readers with an interest in STS, globalisation and development studies will be inspired by these essays that demonstrate how the imaginative reappropriation of technologies to suit local conditions is challenging the assumed hegemony of big tech.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction – Rethinking technoscientific globalisation with the Global South, by The Technoglob Collective
SECTION 1. LIVING OFF THE INFORMAL
Chapter 2
Enabling and resisting the platform economy from below – Platform immigrant workers in Ecuador, by Henry Chávez and María Belén Albornoz
Chapter 3
Digital knowledge from below – Low-skilled labour migration to the Gulf countries and technology adoption in India, by Javed Mohammad Alam
SECTION 2. NAVIGATING INTERNATIONAL INEQUITIES
Chapter 4
Calibrating the global – How are Ghanaian scientists shifting Africa’s position in global atmospheric science?, by Jessica Pourraz and Allison Felix Hughes
Chapter 5
Affirming pharmaceutical sovereignty – Technology transfer agreements and vaccine geopolitics during a global health emergency, by Koichi Kameda, Denise Pimenta and Gustavo Matta
Chapter 6
A human drug amid animal diseases – The ecology of globalised heparin, by Thibaut Serviant-Fine
SECTION 3. ADJUSTING THE GLOBAL
Chapter 7
Patching development – Information technology adjustments in the Mauritian logistical sector, by Marine Al Dahdah and Mathieu Quet
Chapter 8
Halting the ‘forced march’ – The ups and downs of Chad’s integration into global pharmaceutical markets, by Ilyass Mahamat Nour Moussa
SECTION 4. CREATING ALTERNATIVE VALUES
Chapter 9
Making value off-patent – India’s pharmaceutical globalisation, by Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar
Chapter 10
The division of biometric labour – Relations of production in African voter identification technologies, by Cecilia Passanti
Chapter 11
How magic bullets travel – An account of ready-to-use therapeutic food in India, by Aamod Utpal