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Funding acknowledgements

Author biographies

1 · Introduction. Rethinking technoscientific globalisation with the Global South

The Technoglob Collective

Section 1. Living off the informal

2 · Enabling and resisting the platform economy from below: Platform immigrant workers in Ecuador

Henry Chávez and María Belén Albornoz

3 · Digital knowledge from below: Low-skilled labour migration to the Gulf countries and technology adoption in India

Javed Mohammad Alam

Section 2. Navigating international inequities

4 · Calibrating the global: How are Ghanaian scientists shifting Africa’s position in global atmospheric science?

Jessica Pourraz and Allison Felix Hughes

5 · Affirming pharmaceutical sovereignty: Technology transfer agreements and vaccine geopolitics during a global health emergency

Koichi Kameda, Denise Pimenta, and Gustavo Matta

6 · A human drug amid animal diseases: The ecology of globalised heparin

Thibaut Serviant-Fine

Section 3. Adjusting the global

7 · Patching development: Information technology adjustments in the Mauritian logistical sector

Marine Al Dahdah and Mathieu Quet

8 · Halting the ‘forced march’: The ups and downs of Chad’s integration into global pharmaceutical markets

Ilyass Mahamat Nour Moussa

Section 4: Creating alternative values

9 · Making value off-patent: India’s pharmaceutical globalisation

Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar

10 · The division of biometric labour: Relations of production in African voter-identification technologies

Cecilia Passanti

11 · How magic bullets travel: An account of ready-to-use therapeutic food in India

Aamod Utpal

Photos of the Technoglob collective