Scripting the mobile development subject
A case study of shipping second-hand bicycles to Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5125692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucy Baker (0000-0002-1666-7120, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1000-1018 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2019.1652930 |
| OpenAlex | W2967159310 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 37 |
This study critically examines how development interventions are imagined for singular places and subjects through a political process of product scripting that reconfigures the socio-technical meaning of second-hand objects from unwanted commodities to solutions that are appropriate for sub-Saharan Africa. Tracing the flow of second-hand goods demonstrates how development subjects are imagined to be adult, economically productive, rural beings. The paper finds that the second-hand mountain bicycle is inserted into an imagined place with a predetermined purpose that does not attend to alternative and heterogeneous urban and rural identities and needs. The paper highlights the compromises undertaken in designing development interventions as they are entangled with processes of waste recycling, commodification and philanthropy
Business · Commodification · Economics · Economy · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Product (mathematics · Psychological intervention · Scripting language · Sociology · Subject (documents · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Law · Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure
The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities
The flip side of fashion
Introduction
The impact of aid chains
Transport planning in sub-Saharan Africa
NGOs and uneven development
Donor–NGO relations and representations of livelihood in nongovernmental aid ahains
Living in a Walking World
Tokunbo ICT
Taken for a ride
Geography and the matter of waste mobilities
Following things of rubbish value
From beginnings and endings to boundaries and edges
From Local to Global to Transnational Civil Society
Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks
Secondhandedness
The New Mobilities Paradigm
Money, power, and donor-NGO partnerships
Networks of power and corruption
Postcolonialism and development
Prolonging Life
Unravelling the Relationships between Used-Clothing Imports and the Decline of African Clothing Industries
Blake Mycoskie, Toms, and Life Narratives of Conspicuous Giving
Second-hand clothing encounters in Zambia
A mobile phone
Outsourcing Social Transformation
Performativity, Corporeality and the Politics of Ship Disposal
The responsibilization of "development consumers" through cause-related marketing campaigns
Cultural studies at Birmingham
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |