Mobile secrets, youth, intimacy, and the politics of pretense in Mozambique, Julie Soleil Archambault
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Mobile secrets, youth, intimacy, and the politics of pretense in Mozambique, Julie Soleil Archambault
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Mobile secrets
Medium
electronic resource
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Julie Soleil Archambault
Sub title
youth, intimacy, and the politics of pretense in Mozambique
Summary
Now part and parcel of everyday life almost everywhere, mobile phones have radically transformed how we acquire and exchange information. Many anticipated that in Africa, where most have gone from no phone to mobile phone, improved access to telecommunication would enhance everything from entrepreneurialism to democratization to service delivery, ushering in socio-economic development. With Mobile Secrets, Julie Soleil Archambault offers a complete rethinking of how we understand uncertainty, truth, and ignorance by revealing how better access to information may in fact be anything but desirable. By engaging with young adults in a Mozambique suburb, Archambault shows how, in their efforts to create fulfilling lives, young men and women rely on mobile communication not only to mitigate everyday uncertainty but also to juggle the demands of intimacy by courting, producing, and sustaining uncertainty. In their hands, the phone has become a necessary tool in a wider arsenal of pretense-a means of creating the open-endedness on which harmonious social relations depend in postwar postsocialist Mozambique. As Mobile Secrets shows, Mozambicans have harnessed the technology not only to acquire information but also to subvert regimes of truth and preserve public secrets, allowing everyone to feign ignorance about the workings of the postwar intimate economy
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- Courtship -- Mozambique -- Inhambane
- African history
- WAP (wireless) technology
- Society & culture: general
- Impact of science & technology on society
- Cell phones + Social aspects -- Mozambique -- Inhambane
- Youth -- Mozambique -- Inhambane -- Social life and customs
- Communication and technology -- Mozambique
- East Africa
- Electronic books
- Communications engineering / telecommunications
- Child Care
- Social & cultural anthropology
- Mobile phone technology
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject14
- Courtship -- Mozambique -- Inhambane
- African history
- WAP (wireless) technology
- Society & culture: general
- Impact of science & technology on society
- Cell phones + Social aspects -- Mozambique -- Inhambane
- Youth -- Mozambique -- Inhambane -- Social life and customs
- Communication and technology -- Mozambique
- East Africa
- Electronic books
- Communications engineering / telecommunications
- Child Care
- Social & cultural anthropology
- Mobile phone technology
- Author1