Joshua Grace
African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development
African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development
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In African Motors, Joshua Grace explores how Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers transformed the automobile into a uniquely African form between the late 1800s and the early 2000s, challenging narratives of Africa's incompatibility with technology. He focuses on the formation of masculinities based in automotive cultures and how African men remade themselves and their communities by adapting technological objects and systems for local purposes.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 11 February 2022
Publisher: Duke University Press
In African Motors, Joshua Grace delves into the captivating story of how Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers reimagined the automobile to forge a distinctively African identity between the late 1800s and the early 2000s. Through a rich tapestry of oral histories, extensive archival research, and immersive ethnographic fieldwork as an apprentice in Dar es Salaam's bustling network of garages, Grace challenges the pervasive narratives that portray Africa as technologically incompatible and that the African adoption of cars is merely a derivative of technology from elsewhere. While automobiles had their origins in Europe and were introduced as part of colonial rule, Grace unveils how Tanzanians transformed these vehicles, increasingly associating their car usage with the Kiswahili word "maendeleo," which signifies progress or development. By focusing on the formation of masculinities rooted in automotive cultures, Grace also outlines the transformative process through which African men re-shaped themselves and their communities by adapting technological objects and systems for local purposes. Ultimately, African Motors emerges as an African-centered narrative of development, showcasing everyday examples of Africans forging both individual and collective cultures of social and technological well-being through movement, making, and repair.
Weight: 626g
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478011712
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