African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development

In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers reconstituted the automobile into a...
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African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development by Grace, Joshua

African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development

BD$73.70

African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development

BD$73.70
Author: Joshua Grace
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers reconstituted the automobile into a uniquely African form between the late 1800s and the early 2000s. Drawing on hundreds of oral histories, extensive archival research, and his ethnographic fieldwork as an apprentice in Dar es Salaam's network of garages, Grace counters the pervasive narratives that Africa is incompatible with technology and that the African use of cars is merely an appropriation of technology created elsewhere. Although automobiles were invented in Europe and introduced as part of colonial rule, Grace shows how Tanzanians transformed them, increasingly associating their own car use with maendeleo, the Kiswahili word for progress or development. Focusing on the formation of masculinities based in automotive cultures, Grace also outlines the process through which African men remade themselves and their communities by adapting technological objects and systems for local purposes. Ultimately, African Motors is an African-centered story of development featuring everyday examples of Africans forging both individual and collective cultures of social and technological wellbeing through movement, making, and repair.

Author: Joshua Grace
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/11/2022
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781478011712


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2022

About the Author
Joshua Grace is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina.

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