Henry, JV;
Oliver, M;
Winters, N;
Global-local divides and ontological politics: feminist STS perspectives on mobile learning for community health workers in Kenya.
Learning, Media and Technology
10.1080/17439884.2019.1628047.
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Abstract
This theoretical paper argues that Feminist Science and Technology Studies (FSTS) can help advance the emancipatory project in critical Ed Tech research. To support this claim, we deploy Tsing’s concept of ‘scale-making projects’ (2005. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press) to connect ‘global’ narratives to ‘local’ users in a mobile learning project for Kenyan health workers. Drawing from this exemplar case, we discuss more broadly how FSTS provides useful theory and methods for tracing the trans-national power relations of digital technologies ‘on the ground’. The paper concludes by advocating for new forms of emancipatory Ed Tech research – ones framed not only within oppositional pairings such as ‘global’ versus ‘local’, but which elucidate how binaries themselves are constituted through far-flung trans-national arrays of sociomaterial practice
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Global-local divides and ontological politics: feminist STS perspectives on mobile learning for community health workers in Kenya |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17439884.2019.1628047 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2019.1628047 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way |
| Keywords: | Feminist theory; mobile phone; global education; STS; community health worker |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10077688 |
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