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- ISBN 9780472057825
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2026
- Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Post-Global City seeks to open a new field of analytical inquiry that examines knowledge production and technological developments in urban Africa rooted in local, historical realities, while also partaking in transnational, global processes. This work explores the ways in which urban residents have utilized technologies and networks to operate around, under, and beyond the state and the international “order,” and challenges the stereotypical images of Africa as a continent either devoid of technology or filled with either broken technologies or technologies from the Global North or Asia. This book focuses on accounts and critiques of new “Rising Africa” ideologies, examining megaprojects such as geothermal and hydroelectric plants with new networked startups that circumvent state and patriarchal hierarchies, women vendors selling online, youths designing and constructing oil refining technologies and tech startups working across diasporas.
Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork carried out in urban spaces in Nigeria, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Gabon, Cameroon, and Tanzania, The Post-Global City brings together voices from Africa, Europe, and the United States to inquire into the dialectics between technology and the urban on the African continent.
Katrien Pype is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven University and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.
Omolade Adunbi is Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies and the Director of the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan.
Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
