Gendered Power and Mobile Technology - Intersections in the Global South

Sommario

List of contributors
1 Rethinking gender and technology within intersections in the global South
Laura Stark and Caroline Wamala Larsson
PART I Mobile money in transacting femininities and masculinities
2 Gender and mobile phone usage in Kenyan women’s everyday lives
Jessica Gustafsson
3 Sex, social reproduction, and mobile telephony as responses to precarity in urban Tanzania
Laura Stark
4 Rethinking financial inclusion: social shaping of mobile money among bodaboda men in Kampala
Caroline Wamala Larsson
PART II Mobile connectivities: negotiating age, gender, and agency
5 One phone, two phones, four phones: older women and mobile telephony in Lima, Peru
Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol
6 Redefining relations: the appropriation of new ICT by young rural women in Peru
Mariana Barreto Ávila and Andrea García Abad
7 Reinforcing inequalities? Mobile telephony and HIV/AIDs in Ghana
Perpetual Crentsil
PART III Mobile continuities at the intersection of ethnicity, class, and gender
8 Women's tech initiatives in Uganda: doing intersectionality and feminist technoscience
Linda Paxling
9 Digital snails? Shuar women and mobile communication in Ecuador
Yolanda Martínez Suárez and Saleta de Salvador Agra
10 Communitarian mobile telephony services in rural Mexico: Red Celular Talea de Castro and Telecomunicaciones Indigenas Comunitarias
Lorena Pérez
Index

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Caroline Wamala Stark Larsson, Laura (University of Jyvaskyla Stark, Caroline (Karlstads Universitet Wamala Larsson, Caroline Stark Wamala Larsson
• Con la collaborazione di: Caroline Wamala Larsson (Editore), Laura Stark (Editore), Laura (University of Jyvaskyla Stark (Editore), Stark Laura (Editore), Caroline Wamala Larsson (Editore), Caroline (Karlstads Universitet Wamala Larsson (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781138039391
• ISBN: 978-1-138-03939-1
• Pagine: 202
• Serie: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality; Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Mobile phone technology, Developing Countries, Gender studies, gender groups, Development Studies, Global South / Developing countries