M-PESA: A socio-economic assemblage in rural Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorKomen, Leah Jerop
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-05T09:38:46Z
dc.date.available2022-07-05T09:38:46Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThe role of information communication technologies in development is contested between those who view it as facilitating broad based human development (Waverman et al., 2005; Jack, Suri and Townsend 2010) and those that view it as counterproductive (Donner 2008, Castel et al 2007). Mobile telephony, in particular, is seen as the most techno-social transformation to occur. For instance, at a macro level, Waverman et al. (2005) note that ‘mobile telephony has a positive and significant impact on economic growth and this impact may be twice as large in developing countries’. Kenya’s M-PESA is a case in point. This paper looks at M-PESA as a site of inclusion and exclusion, focusing on two elements: emerging accounts of M-PESA usage, and security on money transfers. The paper presents M-PESA as a social assemblage by adopting DeLanda’s (2006) assemblage theory, which opens up macro and micro dichotomies. Data obtained from ethnographic interviews shows that although M-PESA is meeting some needs, it also has deterministic tendencies, such as power and gender hierarchy distributions, though complex in nature. The paper has studied mobile money as a socio-economic assemblage that shows the dynamics of social change not as given, but as constantly forming and reforming.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipDaystar Universityen_US
dc.identifier.citationKomen, L. J. (2016). M-PESA: A socio-economic assemblage in rural Kenya. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, 9(5). https://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/458/280en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.daystar.ac.ke/handle/123456789/3935
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Networken_US
dc.subjectAssemblageen_US
dc.subjectDevelopmenten_US
dc.subjectM-PESAen_US
dc.subjectSecurity concernsen_US
dc.titleM-PESA: A socio-economic assemblage in rural Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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