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Liberation and Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Liberation and Technology

“The most fundamental difference between ‘developing’ and ‘developed’ societies is technology, in a broad yet specific sense”; so states the author of this important study, Liberation and Technology: Development possibilities in pursuing technological autonomy. The ways in which technology is developed, institutionalized, animated and celebrated, form the core of ‘development’ (human, economic, environmental, etc.) and ultimately civilization itself. But ‘techno-spheres’ are not only technical. They are also social, political, and ideological. For societies and countries that have long been kept from realizing their own prosperity and dignity, development is also liberati...

Building Science Systems in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Building Science Systems in Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Social Enterprises as Agents of Technological Change
  • Language: en

Social Enterprises as Agents of Technological Change

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This thesis explores the potential role of social enterprises as agents of technological change in developing societies. By 'agents' it is meant active participants in processes of conceiving and implementing new technological solutions for communities. The thesis argues that technology-oriented social enterprises can be effective agents of technology localization which includes diffusing, supporting and adapting technologies for local conditions. Technology localization is a main variable in the pursuit of technological autonomy in developing societies. Technological autonomy refers to the endogenous capacity of developing countries for generating, transferring and managing technologies on ...

Infrastructural Brutalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Infrastructural Brutalism

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-09-01
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

How “drowned town” literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and “death train” narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures. In this book, Michael Truscello looks at the industrial infrastructure not as an invisible system of connectivity and mobility that keeps capitalism humming in the background but as a manufactured miasma of despair, toxicity, and death. Truscello terms this “infrastructural brutalism”—a formulation that not only alludes to the historical nexus of infrastructure and the concrete aesthetic of Brutalist architecture but also describes the ecological, political, and psychological brutality of industrial infrastructures. Trusce...

Displacement Governance and the Illusion of Integration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

Displacement Governance and the Illusion of Integration

There is a poetic convergence between the struggles of people on the move and people in the peripheries of power, as they may collectively envision alternative forms of coexistence and fight together for fundamental rights and a dignified life. The emergence of fresh perspectives on solidarity from local communities across the board can become the driving force behind a transformative movement of the people. Examples of small yet impactful acts of solidarity in the northern Mediterranean region illustrate how migration fuels social change, leading to the alteration of established norms. These examples further challenge the dominant populist narrative of migration, and integration into mainst...

To Be or Not To Be: Sudan at Crossroads
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

To Be or Not To Be: Sudan at Crossroads

To be or not to be is an analysis of linguistic, cultural, political, economic and social factors, which explain the intricate root causes of conflicts which have ravished Sudan. It stands in stark contrast to the dominant simplification and distortions which have come to typify presentations of the region. Central to the book is an unapologetic explanation of Arabization; which often is portrayed as individual choices of religious loyalty, but, in fact, masks an intentional power-system which viciously corrupts Afrikan identities. By highlighting the detrimental complexities of manipulation, geopolitics, identity confusion and cultural imperialism, Hashim has not only written an authoritative book about Sudan, but also presented a comprehensive case study that all of Afrika must learn from. Rarely are we presented with such a vigourous inside-view to an area of Afrika which once was held in the highest civilizational esteem, but has been reduced to an ideological field of Arab-led terror, massacres and disintegration.

Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-17
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  • Publisher: AK Press

"Each of these essays is a sharpened weapon for the battles looming large on the horizon." -George Ciccariello-Maher, author of Building the Commune "Combining the most creative thought from the global North and South, Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? promises to be an indispensable resource for understanding why the new revolutionary movement of the 21st century will emerge from the ranks of the most marginalized by capitalism and colonialism." -Ajamu Baraka, editor of Black Agenda Report Even mainstream media like the New York Times and The Economist have recently posed the question: Why don't the poor rise up?, uneasily amazed that capitalism hasn't met with greater resistance. In the context ...

UNESCO Science Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 757

UNESCO Science Report

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In the Heat of Africa's Underdevelopment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

In the Heat of Africa's Underdevelopment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-08-23
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  • Publisher: Langaa RPCIG

The ever growing disparity in living standards between the developed and developing polities constitutes a striking feature of life on Planet Earth. This publication is an attempt to highlight some of the factors dividing the worlds apart. A new North-South synergy is needed in creating a balanced world at peace with itself. As long as more than half-the population of the world go to bed hungry there can be no peace. A sting rich world and a sting poor world cannot cohabit peacefully. How to build a more equitable and balanced world is the challenge facing us. We need to embrace and practice our long-aged concepts of ‘ubuntu’, ‘harambee’ and ‘batho pele’ among others in creating,...