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africa
african
african history
art
artisans
Author_Dillon Mahoney
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communication
connection
development
digital business
digital technology
digital world
economy
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eq_society-politics
fair trade
global economy
globalization
grief
kenya
loss
market
market space
mobility
ngo
online
real life
risk
risk assessment
technology
true story
vending
vendor
Product details
- ISBN 9780520292895
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2017
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Art of Connection narrates the individual stories of artisans and traders of Kenyan arts and crafts as they overcome the loss of physical access to roadside market space by turning to new digital technologies to make their businesses more mobile and integrated into the global economy. Bringing together the studies of globalization, development, art, and communication, the book illuminates the lived experiences of informal economies and shows how traders and small enterprises balance new risks with the mobility afforded by digital technologies. An array of ethnic and generational politics have led to market burnings and witchcraft accusations as Kenya's crafts industry struggles to adapt to its new connection to the global economy. To mediate the resulting crisis of trust, the Fair Trade sticker and other NGO aesthetics continue to successfully represent a transparent, ethical, and trusting relationship between buyer and producer. Dillon Mahoney shows that by balancing revelation and obfuscation - what is revealed and what is not - Kenyan art traders make their own roles as intermediaries and the exploitative realities of the global economy invisible.
Dillon Mahoney is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida.
