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Gendered Power and Mobile Technology: Intersections in the Global South book cover

1st Edition

Gendered Power and Mobile Technology Intersections in the Global South

Edited By Caroline Wamala Larsson, Laura Stark Copyright 2019
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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



Biography

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.

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