Cecilia Passanti @cecipax679.bsky.social · 02/10/2025While classical STS literature argues that science and technology become universal though the daily work of detaching from original relations of production. The chapter shows that, on the contrary, globalization is the result of reproduction and objectification of original production relations. 010
Cecilia Passanti @cecipax679.bsky.social · 02/10/2025The chapter responds that computer biometrics was born in the postcolonial context in the 1970s and that the original production relationships are solidified in the production model of contemporary biometrics. 100
Cecilia Passanti @cecipax679.bsky.social · 02/10/2025It consists of the study of biometric labour division among foreign vendors providing the technologies and local officials who develop them on a daily basis. The chapter investigates how biometrics has become global while maintaining a postcolonial nature. 100
Cecilia Passanti @cecipax679.bsky.social · 02/10/2025My chapter is the result of an investigation into production relations of biometric technologies in the context of electoral administration in Africa. 100
Cecilia Passanti @cecipax679.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Check out my new “The division of biometric labour: relations of production in African voter-identification technologies” in @mathieuquetu.bsky.social Technoscientific Globalisation from Below, @matteringpress.bsky.social www.matteringpress.org/books/techno...matteringpress.orgTechnoscientific Globalisation from Below 120
Reposted by Cecilia PassantiMattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 08/09/2025 📚BOOK LAUNCH 📚 We’re delighted to announce the publication of 🌍Technoscientific Globalisation from Below🌎 Open access&free to download via @matteringpress.bsky.social www.matteringpress.org/books/techno... Edited by Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz & Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankarmatteringpress.orgTechnoscientific Globalisation from Below 1144
Cecilia Passanti @cecipax679.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Coming soon: Technoscientific Globalisation from Below Mattering Press www.matteringpress.org/books/techno...matteringpress.orgComing soon: Technoscientific Globalisation from Below 010