My Mobile Phone, My Life: Deconstructing Development ( Maendeleo ) andGender Narratives among the Marakwet in Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorKomen, Leah Jerop
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-05T09:41:22Z
dc.date.available2022-07-05T09:41:22Z
dc.date.issued2021-02
dc.descriptionJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThe increased adoption of mobile telephony for development is based on the assumption that mobile telephonyhas the potential to foster social change. To some, such technology can aid most developing countries to leapfrogstages of development. Yet to others, the technology is at most counterproductive: development has beenunderstood differently by the developed in comparison to the underdeveloped. Missing in this narrative is thepeople’s own conceptualization of the term development as well as their gender roles, often a component ofdevelopment programs. This study presents findings on an alternative conceptualization of development, dubbed maendeleo, a Swahili term that denotes process, participation, progress, growth, change, and improved standardof living—as defined by the people or women themselves as they interact with mobile telephony in rural Kenya.Using Manuel DeLanda’s assemblage theory to analyze interviews, this study proposes an alternativeconceptualization of development. This different perspective on development denotes both process andemergence, through the processes and roles that mobile telephony plays in the techno-social interactions ofusers, context, and other factors as they form social assemblages that are fluid in nature, hence challenging theWestern proposition that new technologies produce development understood as social transformation.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipDaystar Universityen_US
dc.identifier.citationKomen, L. J. (2020). My mobile phone, my life: Deconstructing development (Maendeleo) and gender narratives among the Marakwet in Kenya. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, 16 https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/26827en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.daystar.ac.ke/handle/123456789/3940
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAda: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technologyen_US
dc.subjectAssemblagesen_US
dc.subjectDevelopmenten_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectMaendeleoen_US
dc.subjectMobile telephonyen_US
dc.subjectM-Pesaen_US
dc.titleMy Mobile Phone, My Life: Deconstructing Development ( Maendeleo ) andGender Narratives among the Marakwet in Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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