Mattering Press
Technoscientific Globalisation from Below
- Mathieu Quet(editor)
- Koichi Kameda(editor)
- Jessica Pourraz(editor)
- Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar(editor)
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| Title | Technoscientific Globalisation from Below |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Mathieu Quet(editor) |
| Koichi Kameda(editor) | |
| Jessica Pourraz(editor) | |
| Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar(editor) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.28938/mw20-c7f3 |
| Landing page | https://www.matteringpress.org/books/technoscientific-globalisation-from-below |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz, & Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar, chapters by respective authors, 2025 |
| Publisher | Mattering Press |
| Publication place | Manchester, UK |
| Published on | 2025-09-08 |
| ISBN | 978-1-912729-38-8 (Paperback) |
| 978-1-912729-36-4 (PDF) | |
| 978-1-912729-37-1 (HTML) | |
| 978-1-912729-35-7 (EPUB) | |
| Long abstract | Global South populations, firms and governments play a key role in redefining the relationship between sciences, technologies and markets on an international scale. Forces shaping the future of global technoscience emerge from unexpected places, prompting a reassessment of global power processes. This volume contains rich case studies studying technoscientific globalization ‘from below’ drawn from fieldwork in Asia, Latin America and Africa, examining the interplay between technology, power, and society at the global scale. The cases are grounded in postcolonial Science and Technology Studies and address a range of topics including pharmaceutical markets, scientific developments and digital practices. This approach illuminates the multiple creative ways in which subaltern players appropriate, divert, overturn or bypass prevailing views on technology and market construction. |
| Print length | 335 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 37 illustrations |
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Contents
- Javed Mohammad Alam
- Henry Chávez
- Ilyass Mahamat Nour Moussa
- Koichi Kameda
- Cecilia Passanti
- Jessica Pourraz
- Mathieu Quet
- Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar
- Aamod Utpal
- Mariana Gameiro
- Thibaut Serviant-Fine
2. Enabling and resisting the platform economy from below: Platform immigrant workers in Ecuador
(pp. 57–80)- Henry Chávez
- María Belén Albornoz
- Javed Mohammad Alam
4. Calibrating the global: How are Ghanaian scientists shifting Africa’s position in global atmospheric science?
(pp. 113–139)- Jessica Pourraz
- Allison Felix Hughes
- Koichi Kameda
- Denise Pimenta
- Gustavo Matta
- Thibaut Serviant-Fine
7. Patching development: Information technology adjustments in the Mauritian logistical sector
(pp. 199–220)- Marine Al Dahdah
- Mathieu Quet
8. Halting the ‘forced march’: The ups and downs of Chad’s integration into global pharmaceutical markets
(pp. 221–243)- Ilyass Mahamat Nour Moussa
- Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar
10. The division of biometric labour: Relations of production in African voter-identification technologies
(pp. 272–297)- Cecilia Passanti
- Aamod Utpal
Contributors
Mathieu Quet
(editor)Research Director at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Member at Population and Development Center
Mathieu Quet, sociologist, is a research director at Institut de recherche pour le développement, Paris, and a member of the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED), Université Paris Cité. His research focuses upon the social aspects of pharmaceutical development in India, and he is more generally interested in observing the globalisation of technological markets from Global South countries. He authored Illicit Medicines in the Global South. Public Health Access and Pharmaceutical Regulation (Routledge 2021).
Koichi Kameda
(editor)Postdoctoral Researcher at Centre Émile Durkheim
Associate Researcher at Population and Development Center
Koichi Kameda de Figueiredo Carvalho holds a PhD in sociology (EHESS, Paris) and a BA in law (UERJ, Brazil). He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center Emile Durkheim at the University of Bordeaux and is an associate researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Public Health Emergencies (NIESP/Fiocruz, Brazil) and at CEPED/Université Paris Cité. His work focuses on issues related to biomedicine, global health, intellectual property, and pharmaceutical markets and social justice, and he has worked on local manufacturing and regulation of diagnostics and vaccines in the Global South and public health–oriented R&D models.
Jessica Pourraz
(editor)Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sciences Po Bordeaux
Associate Researcher at Center for Human Sciences (CSH)
Jessica Pourraz holds a PhD in sociology (2019) from the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She is a postdoctoral research fellow with Sciences Po Bordeaux and an associate researcher at the Center for Human Sciences (CSH) in Delhi. Her research focuses on issues related to science, biomedicine, the environment, and health, and more particularly on the health effects of air pollution in India and Ghana.
Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar
(editor)Associate Professor at Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Associate Researcher at Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la Diffusion de l'Information Géographique
Yves-marie Rault-Chodankar is an associate professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an associate researcher at the Pôle de recherche pour l’organisation et la diffusion de l’information géographique (Prodig). His work sits at the intersection of economic geography and development studies, examining how emerging economies integrate into global value chains and drive regional development in the Global South. Through extensive fieldwork in India, Yves-Marie’s ethnographic research captures the lived realities of local entrepreneurs, particularly in the pharmaceutical sector, to show how they adapt and innovate to reshape global production networks from below.