- Title
- The hidden colonialities of mobile communication: Phone uses by women in a South African rural community
- Creator
- Dalvit, Lorenzo
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2024
- Date
- 2024
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468239
- Identifier
- vital:77035
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781003304197
- Identifier
- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003304197-5/hidden-colonialities-mobile-communication-lorenzo-dalvit
- Description
- This chapter discusses the experiences and uses of mobile phones by women from Dwesa, a rural area in the former homeland of Transkei in South Africa. While representative of many similar rural realities in terms of poverty, internal migration, and lack of infrastructure, Dwesa is the site of an ICT-for-development project called the Siyakhula Living Lab. A decade and a half worth of multidisciplinary research and an intense working relationship with the community provide the scope for understanding the arrival, uptake, and adoption of mobile communication in a marginalized rural area. Local women often stood out as a particularly interesting group, for example, as information and communication technology champions in the community. The empirical component of this chapter draws on four individual interviews to explore the potentially problematic sides of mobile communication. In particular, the chapter employs the theoretical lens of coloniality to interrogate the oppressive potential of mobile phones in terms of gender relationships, negotiating gendered identities and interacting with institutions in a still largely patriarchal milieu.
- Format
- 11 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Dalvit, L., 2024. The hidden colonialities of mobile communication: Phone uses by women in a South African rural community. In Women’s Agency and Mobile Communication Under the Radar (pp. 24-34). Routledge
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