Gendered Power and Mobile Technology: Intersections in the Global South

ISBN-13: 9780367728205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 202 str.

Caroline Wamala Larsson; Laura Stark

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.