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008			130917s2014 maua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2013036289
020			_a9780262027243 (hardcover : alk. paper) _cRs.2150
040			_aBLR _beng _cDLC
082	0	4	_a306.46096 MAV _223 _b012320
100	1		_aMavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa, _d1972- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aTransient workspaces : _btechnologies of everyday innovation in Zimbabwe / _cClapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe MIT Press, _cc2014.
300			_axi, 296 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aMobility studies
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-279) and index.
505	0		_aGuided mobility The professoriate of the hunt The coming of the gun Tsetse invasions The professoriate of the hunt and the Tsetse fly Poaching as criminalized innovation Chimurenga: The transient workspace of self-liberation The professoriate of the hunt and international ivory poaching Conclusions : transient workspaces in times of crisis. The republic of absence Insectomobile invasions The professoriate and the insectomobile The professoriate and the white poacher The professoriate and chimurenga The professoriate and international ivory poaching Conclusions : mobile workshops and transient workspaces in times of crisis.
520			_aIn this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities -- including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in the laboratory in a Western-style building but also in the society in the forest, in the crop field, and in other places where knowledge is made and turned into practical outcomes. African creativities are found in African mobilities. Mavhunga shows the movement of people as not merely conveyances across space but transient workspaces. Taking indigenous hunting in Zimbabwe as one example, he explores African philosophies of mobilities as spiritually guided and of the forest as a sacred space. Viewing the hunt as guided mobility, Mavhunga considers interesting questions of what constitutes technology under regimes of spirituality. He describes how African hunters extended their knowledge traditions to domesticate the gun, how European colonizers, with no remedy of their own, turned to indigenous hunters for help in combating the deadly tsetse fly, and examines how wildlife conservation regimes have criminalized African hunting rather than enlisting hunters (and their knowledge) as allies in wildlife sustainability. The hunt, Mavhunga writes, is one of many criminalized knowledges and practices to which African people turn in times of economic or political crisis. He argues that these practices need to be decriminalized and examined as technologies of everyday innovation with a view toward constructive engagement, innovating with Africans rather than for them.
650		0	_aMaterial culture _zAfrica.
650		0	_aSubsistence hunting _zAfrica.
650		0	_aEconomic anthropology _zAfrica.
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