Gendered Power and Mobile Technology : Intersections in the Global South

Larsson, Caroline Wamala (EDT); Stark, Laura (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0367728206 / ISBN 13: 9780367728205

Published by Routledge, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gendered Power and Mobile Technology : Intersections in the Global South
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367728206
• ISBN 13: 9780367728205
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Mobile phones are widely viewed as the information and communication technology that holds the most promise for bridging global digital divides.

Gendered Power and Mobile Technology uses empirical research to focus on changing intersections between technology, gender and other categories of social and cultural power difference (such as age, race, class, and ethnicity) in the use of mobile communication technologies. Asking how these intersections can inform development discourse, practice, and research, this volume seeks to rectify the lack of attention to the Global South, calling for more sensitivity to the contexts and consequences of mobile phone use. Indeed, drawing on case studies from Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book engages with the intersectionality paradigm to tease out the complexities of using mobile technologies for development purposes.

Gendered Power and Mobile Technology will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as media studies, development studies, gender and technology, feminist technoscience, anthropology, and sociology.

About the Author

Caroline Wamala Larsson is an Associate Professor in Gender Studies and Head of Research with the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER), an independent resource centre at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Laura Stark is Professor of Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.