Laura Ann Twagira
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Ann Twagira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Twagira |
| SIGNATURE | TWAGIRA L A |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1338-4504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Machines That Cook or Women Who Cook? Lessons from Mali on Technology, Labor, and Women's Things
By the last quarter of the twentieth century, grain mills had proliferated across rural Mali and were central to the story of women and development. Yet, proponents of such supposed labor-saving technologies often assumed that women in Africa have little technological experience or knowhow. The present article examines this well-worn narrative with an emphasis on the ways in which Malian women have interrogated different technological interventio…
Introduction
IntroductionAfricanizing the History of Technology Laura Ann Twagira (bio) In 2002 the Kenyan scholar E. S. Atieno-Odhiambo challenged historians of Africa to critically consider the direction of the field by asking the question: "is autonomy of African history possible?"1 Atieno-Odhiambo wrote these words in the collection Africanizing Knowledge, which similarly charged scholars to make African Studies "more African," or more specifically to cen…
Robot Farmers’ and Cosmopolitan Workers
Introduction
IntroductionAfricanizing the History of Technology Laura Ann Twagira (bio) In 2002 the Kenyan scholar E. S. Atieno-Odhiambo challenged historians of Africa to critically consider the direction of the field by asking the question: "is autonomy of African history possible?"1 Atieno-Odhiambo wrote these words in the collection Africanizing Knowledge, which similarly charged scholars to make African Studies "more African," or more specifically to cen…
Machines That Cook or Women Who Cook? Lessons from Mali on Technology, Labor, and Women's Things
By the last quarter of the twentieth century, grain mills had proliferated across rural Mali and were central to the story of women and development. Yet, proponents of such supposed labor-saving technologies often assumed that women in Africa have little technological experience or knowhow. The present article examines this well-worn narrative with an emphasis on the ways in which Malian women have interrogated different technological interventio…
Robot Farmers’ and Cosmopolitan Workers
Robot Farmers’ and Cosmopolitan Workers
Machines That Cook or Women Who Cook? Lessons from Mali on Technology, Labor, and Women's Things
By the last quarter of the twentieth century, grain mills had proliferated across rural Mali and were central to the story of women and development. Yet, proponents of such supposed labor-saving technologies often assumed that women in Africa have little technological experience or knowhow. The present article examines this well-worn narrative with an emphasis on the ways in which Malian women have interrogated different technological interventio…
Introduction
IntroductionAfricanizing the History of Technology Laura Ann Twagira (bio) In 2002 the Kenyan scholar E. S. Atieno-Odhiambo challenged historians of Africa to critically consider the direction of the field by asking the question: "is autonomy of African history possible?"1 Atieno-Odhiambo wrote these words in the collection Africanizing Knowledge, which similarly charged scholars to make African Studies "more African," or more specifically to cen…
History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · African studies (1 works) · Agriculture (1 works)