The art of connection : risk, mobility, and the crafting of transparency in coastal Kenya /

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Author / Creator:Mahoney, Dillon, 1980- author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
©2017
Description:1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11914342
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ISBN:9780520966239
0520966236
9780520292871
0520292871
9780520292895
0520292898
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:The Art of Connection narrates the individual stories of artisans and traders of Kenyan arts and crafts as they overcome the loss of physical access to roadside market space by turning to new digital technologies to make their businesses more mobile and integrated into the global economy. Bringing together the studies of globalization, development, art, and communication, the book illuminates the lived experiences of informal economies and shows how traders and small enterprises balance new risks with the mobility afforded by digital technologies. An array of ethnic and generational politics h.
Other form:Print version: Mahoney, Dillon, 1980- Art of connection. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520292871