Technoscientific Globalisation from Below
2025
Géographie
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.
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Introduction. Rethinking technoscientific globalisation with the Global South
Section 1 • Living off the informal
- 2 • Enabling and resisting the platform economy from below: Platform immigrant workers in Ecuador
- 3 • Digital knowledge from below: Low-skilled labour migration to the Gulf countries and technology adoption in India
Section 2 • Navigating international inequities
- 4 • Calibrating the global: How are Ghanaian scientists shifting Africa’s position in global atmospheric science?
- 5 • Affirming pharmaceutical sovereignty: Technology transfer agreements and vaccine geopolitics during a global health emergency
- 6 • A human drug amid animal diseases: The ecology of globalised heparin
Section 3 • Adjusting the global
- 7 • Patching development: Information technology adjustments in the Mauritian logistical sector
- 8 • Halting the ‘forced march’: The ups and downs of Chad’s integration into global pharmaceutical markets
Section 4 • Creating alternative values
- 9 • Making value off-patent: India’s pharmaceutical globalisation
- 10 • The division of biometric labour: Relations of production in African voter-identification technologies
- 11 • How magic bullets travel: An account of ready-to-use therapeutic food in India