M Ntapanta
Biographic Data
| ID | 6759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Ntapanta |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ntapanta |
| SIGNATURE | NTAPANTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0826-760X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imagining Bitcoin: Indeterminacy and Technologies of Imagination in Kenya
This article examines how Bitcoin circulates in Kenya not primarily as a speculative asset, but as a technology of imagination embedded in everyday socio-economic and political struggles. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Bitcoin educators, and activists in Nairobi, the article traces how cryptocurrencies become meaningful through practices of teaching, rituals, and political protests. It shows how Kenyan Bitcoiners enter the crypto space t…
Who cares, and for what? Exploring the contents and extents of care as an analytical concept in ethnographies of electronics repair
Care in repairing is practiced, imagined, and experienced differently in various contexts. In this article we examine the role of care as a concept in the repair of consumer electronics. Our aim is to ethnographically explore the necessity of repair and the dynamics of repairing as they emerge in geopolitically polarized regions. To do so, we compare the repair of consumer electronics in Norway and Tanzania as two contrasting cases. Norway has th…
Contested landscapes: Fragments and afterlives of the colonial rail in Tanzania
This article traces the fragments and afterlife of the colonial rail as a material object in Tanzania. The rail was a tool for exploitation and proper control of the colony. The rails changed the land. The land was shaped and reshaped to accommodate the rail and aid the colonial project. As the colonial project ended, it marked the start of the demise of the railways and its ultimate abandonment. However, as ruins, the rail has continued affectin…
Polarized Cityscapes: Gathering Electronic Waste and Its Malcontents in Dar es Salaam
Salvaging electronic waste (e-waste) is a critical sector for global south cities. Salvaging complements the gap of under-resourced waste-collecting and handling institutions. It also offers employment and steady income to many struggling under high unemployment and economic inequalities. How can we understand e-waste salvaging and its malcontents in a polarized global south city? Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among informal electr…
Anthropology does not need to decolonise to make sense of conflicts in today’s polarised world: For the motion
Lifescaping' toxicants: Locating and living with e-waste in Tanzania
Based on fieldwork in an informal scrap recycling workshop, this article explores how unregulated electronic waste (e-waste) handling activities in Dar es Salaam expose workers to toxic substances as part of their livelihoods. These informal economic activities are situated in the urban landscape within the surrounding global flows of e-waste and recycling and demonstrate how workers reflect on and seek to mitigate the toxic exposures they encoun…
Lifescaping' toxicants: Locating and living with e-waste in Tanzania
Based on fieldwork in an informal scrap recycling workshop, this article explores how unregulated electronic waste (e-waste) handling activities in Dar es Salaam expose workers to toxic substances as part of their livelihoods. These informal economic activities are situated in the urban landscape within the surrounding global flows of e-waste and recycling and demonstrate how workers reflect on and seek to mitigate the toxic exposures they encoun…
Contested landscapes: Fragments and afterlives of the colonial rail in Tanzania
This article traces the fragments and afterlife of the colonial rail as a material object in Tanzania. The rail was a tool for exploitation and proper control of the colony. The rails changed the land. The land was shaped and reshaped to accommodate the rail and aid the colonial project. As the colonial project ended, it marked the start of the demise of the railways and its ultimate abandonment. However, as ruins, the rail has continued affectin…
Anthropology does not need to decolonise to make sense of conflicts in today’s polarised world: For the motion
Lifescaping' toxicants: Locating and living with e-waste in Tanzania
Based on fieldwork in an informal scrap recycling workshop, this article explores how unregulated electronic waste (e-waste) handling activities in Dar es Salaam expose workers to toxic substances as part of their livelihoods. These informal economic activities are situated in the urban landscape within the surrounding global flows of e-waste and recycling and demonstrate how workers reflect on and seek to mitigate the toxic exposures they encoun…
Anthropology does not need to decolonise to make sense of conflicts in today’s polarised world: For the motion
Polarized Cityscapes: Gathering Electronic Waste and Its Malcontents in Dar es Salaam
Salvaging electronic waste (e-waste) is a critical sector for global south cities. Salvaging complements the gap of under-resourced waste-collecting and handling institutions. It also offers employment and steady income to many struggling under high unemployment and economic inequalities. How can we understand e-waste salvaging and its malcontents in a polarized global south city? Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork among informal electr…
Contested landscapes: Fragments and afterlives of the colonial rail in Tanzania
This article traces the fragments and afterlife of the colonial rail as a material object in Tanzania. The rail was a tool for exploitation and proper control of the colony. The rails changed the land. The land was shaped and reshaped to accommodate the rail and aid the colonial project. As the colonial project ended, it marked the start of the demise of the railways and its ultimate abandonment. However, as ruins, the rail has continued affectin…
Who cares, and for what? Exploring the contents and extents of care as an analytical concept in ethnographies of electronics repair
Care in repairing is practiced, imagined, and experienced differently in various contexts. In this article we examine the role of care as a concept in the repair of consumer electronics. Our aim is to ethnographically explore the necessity of repair and the dynamics of repairing as they emerge in geopolitically polarized regions. To do so, we compare the repair of consumer electronics in Norway and Tanzania as two contrasting cases. Norway has th…
Imagining Bitcoin: Indeterminacy and Technologies of Imagination in Kenya
This article examines how Bitcoin circulates in Kenya not primarily as a speculative asset, but as a technology of imagination embedded in everyday socio-economic and political struggles. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Bitcoin educators, and activists in Nairobi, the article traces how cryptocurrencies become meaningful through practices of teaching, rituals, and political protests. It shows how Kenyan Bitcoiners enter the crypto space t…
Engineering (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Tanzania (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Electronic waste (2 works) · Geography (2 works)