عنوان

Scripting mobilities in sub-Saharan Africa :

شماره

TLets753589

عنوان اصلي

Scripting mobilities in sub-Saharan Africa :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Baker, Lucy

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

a case study of second-hand bicycle networks

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Cardiff University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2018

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Cardiff University

امتياز متن

2018

متن يادداشت

This thesis explores a network of international and national non-governmental organisations (NGOs), donors, development subjects and materials, in order to understand the politics of designing mobilities for development. It does this by tracing the flow of second-hand bicycles from their production in the Global North to Namibia, sub-Saharan Africa. An analytical framework of Script Analysis is used to examine the social and technical meanings that are written into second-hand bicycles as they are re-valued for use in the Global South. Following the bicycles to Namibia, the thesis examines how users subscribe to, reject and adapt the bicycles' social meanings and physical properties in local contexts in order to suit their needs. The thesis finds that the bicycle is prescribed singularly as an object that intends to technologically modernise homogenous utilitarian subjects in inaccessible 'rural' Africa. A scene is set onto which an appropriate piece of machinery is inserted. Desirable industrious activities are promoted and less productive practices, such as play, embodied sensory experiences of mobility and identity performance, tend to be discouraged. The thesis finds that with little opportunity for negotiation between designers and users, the needs and desires of Namibian consumers are being dictated. The proscriptions and politics of the network are further compounded by the second-hand materiality of the bikes, which reduce the flexibility of producers to respond to users. NGOs are also operating under pressure to align to the current trends and expectations of donors. Meanwhile, in a local context bicycles are proscribed by sand and thorns, a lack of infrastructure and gender norms, for example. The thesis demonstrates the complexity of design, which goes beyond a linear process, also includes heterogeneous social and material entities that relationally act in conflict with a prescribed and universal 'tool' for mobility imagined by NGOs.

موضوع مستند نشده

G Geography (General)

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Baker, Lucy

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Cardiff University

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y