We’re excited to share that Mattering Press will soon be publishing a new book: Technoscientific Globalisation from Below.
Global South populations, firms and governments play a key role in redefining the relationship between sciences, technologies and markets on an international scale. Forces shaping the future of global technoscience emerge from unexpected places, prompting a reassessment of global power processes. This volume contains rich case studies studying technoscientific globalization ‘from below’ drawn from fieldwork in Asia, Latin America and Africa, examining the interplay between technology, power, and society at the global scale. The cases are grounded in postcolonial Science and Technology Studies and address a range of topics including pharmaceutical markets, scientific developments and digital practices. This approach illuminates the multiple creative ways in which subaltern players appropriate, divert, overturn or bypass prevailing views on technology and market construction.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction – Rethinking technoscientific globalisation with the Global South
SECTION 1. LIVING OFF THE INFORMAL
Chapter 2
Enabling and resisting the platform economy from below – Platform immigrant workers in Ecuador
Chapter 3
Digital knowledge from below – Low-skilled labour migration to the Gulf countries and technology adoption in India
SECTION 2. NAVIGATING INTERNATIONAL INEQUITIES
Chapter 4
Calibrating the global – How are Ghanaian scientists shifting Africa’s position in global atmospheric science?
Chapter 5
Affirming pharmaceutical sovereignty – Technology transfer agreements and vaccine geopolitics during a global health emergency
Chapter 6
A human drug amid animal diseases – The ecology of globalised heparin
SECTION 3. ADJUSTING THE GLOBAL
Chapter 7
Patching development – Information technology adjustments in the Mauritian logistical sector
Chapter 8
Halting the ‘forced march’ – The ups and downs of Chad’s integration into global pharmaceutical markets
SECTION 4. CREATING ALTERNATIVE VALUES
Chapter 9
Making value off-patent – India’s pharmaceutical globalisation
Chapter 10
The division of biometric labour – Relations of production in African voter identification technologies
Chapter 11
How magic bullets travel – An account of ready-to-use therapeutic food in India