Paula Uimonen

Stockholm University, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Faculty Member

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Beyond Failure: Rethinking Research and Evaluation in ICT4D

Published in Digital Divides: The New Challenges and Opportunities of e-Inclusion, edited by Kim ... more

Digital Drama. Teaching and Learning Art and Media in Tanzania

The aim of this book is to explore digital media and intercultural interaction at an arts college... more The aim of this book is to explore digital media and intercultural interaction at an arts college in Tanzania through innovative forms of ethnographic representation. The book and the series website weave together visual and aural narratives, interviews and observations, life stories and video documentaries, art performances and productions. It paints a vivid portrayal of everyday life in East Africa's only institute for practical art training, while tracing the rich cultural history of a state that has mixed tribalism, nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and cosmopolitanism in astonishingly creative ways.

While following the anthropological tradition of thick description, Digital Drama employs a more artistic and accessible style of writing. Dramatic, ethnographic details are interspersed with theoretical postulations to explain and make sense of the unfolding narratives. The accompanying website visualizes and sensualizes the stories narrated in the book, unfolding a dramatic world of African dance, music, theater, and digital culture.

Transnational.Dynamics@Development.Net. Internet, Modernization and Globalization

To its pioneers, the Internet is not just a technology but also a culture. This culture is instru... more To its pioneers, the Internet is not just a technology but also a culture. This culture is instructive of the social and cultural embeddedness of the Internet. So are the people whose lifestyles are informed by the culture of networking, the Internet pioneers. These are the social nodes of the internet, individuals who have actively contributed to its expansion around the world. Reflecting the ethos of the culture of networking, their activities are aimed at spreading the internet and the spirit in which it has been developed. Their vision is one of social improvement through global interconnectedness. Their strategy is transnational networking.

At a time when the Internet is becoming ubiquitous in many Western countries, this book focuses on its expansion in developing countries. Based on the visions and experiences of Internet pioneers, it identifies the cultural characteristics of the Internet, the distribution of which represents an instance of global cultural flow. Combining case studies in Southeast Asia with an examination of international activities and discourses, this book is the first to provide a comparative, empirical study of Internet development in the developing world.

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Spiritual Relationality in Swahili Ocean Worlds

Deleted Journal, 2021

This article interrogates how people in Kaole relate to the ocean spiritually. Located on the Swa... more This article interrogates how people in Kaole relate to the ocean spiritually. Located on the Swahili coast in Tanzania, with a long history of transoceanic connections, Kaole is a fishing community where everyday life is lived alongside and through the ocean. Drawing on exploratory fieldwork in preparation of our new research project Swahili Ocean Worlds, in this article we share some of our initial findings, which we contextualise with the help of scholarly work on the Swahili world and Islam in Africa. To broaden our scope, we also engage with some comparative material from other parts of the world. In conceptualising Swahili ocean worlds, we draw on the anthropology of water, which has ascertained the centrality of water in the making of social worlds. But to grasp the spiritual relationality of the ocean, we adopt a pluriversal approach, with an emphasis on multiple worldings in an emergent world of many worlds. Our aim is to go beyond the focus on materiality and sociality in the anthropology of water, to interrogate the spirituality of the ocean in terms of spiritual beings as well as becomings.

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