Rural Uncommoning
| Autor: | Nicola J. Bidwell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Economic growth
Corporate governance 05 social sciences Global South Identity (social science) 02 engineering and technology Livelihood Human-Computer Interaction Technoculture 020204 information systems Ethnography 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Commons 050107 human factors |
| Zdroj: | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 28:1-50 |
| ISSN: | 1557-7325 1073-0516 |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3445793 |
| Popis: | Shared use of small-scale natural commons is vital to the livelihoods of billions of rural inhabitants, particularly women, and advocates propose that local telecommunications systems that are oriented by the commons can close rural connectivity gaps. This article extends insights about women's exclusion from such Community Networks (CNs) by considering ‘commoning’, or practices that produce, reproduce and use the commons and create communality. I generated data in interviews and observations of rural CNs in seven countries in the Global South and in multi-sited ethnography of international advocacy for CNs. Male biases in technoculture and rural governance limit women's participation in CNs, and women adopt different approaches to performing their communal identity while using technology. This situation contributes to detaching CNs from relations that are produced in women's commoning. It also illustrates processes that co-opt the commons in rural technology endeavours and the diverse ways commoners express their subjectivities in response. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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