[STS-Africa] Fwd: CITO Lecture MONDAY, March 29 at 3pm IST: “Kenya’s digital financial boom and the colonial histories of financial infrastructures”

[Gianluca Miscione]

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Gianluca Miscione
University College Dublin
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From: Quinn Dupont <quinn.dupont at ucd.ie>
Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 7:35 PM
Subject: CITO Lecture MONDAY, March 29 at 3pm IST: “Kenya’s digital
financial boom and the colonial histories of financial infrastructures”
To: <MIS-UCD at listserv.heanet.ie>


Please join us on MONDAY,* March 29 at 3pm Irish Standard Time (10am EST)
for Nicholas Bernards (University of Warwick) who will be discussing “*Kenya’s
digital financial boom and the colonial histories of financial
infrastructures*”
*Please note: IST and BST start March 28 and this CITO lecture is being
exceptionally held on Monday instead of Tuesday

Abstract
Kenya’s digital finance boom is a paradigmatic case of the role of
financial technologies (fintech) in development and poverty reduction, both
for advocates and critics of fintech. Recent discussions, however, have
tended not to closely examine the fundamental unevenness of this boom, in
two senses. Drawing on engagements with Marxian conceptions of uneven
development and recent debates on financial infrastructures, I link both of
these patterns to the durable legacies of the distinctive political economy
of colonialism in Kenya. Given the growing importance of Kenya’s digital
finance boom in broader policy and academic debates about fintech, this
case suggests a need for greater attention to the uneven nature of fintech
applications.

No registration required. Zoom link: https://bit.ly/38jLEVN

For more information, please contact Quinn DuPont (quinn.dupont at ucd.ie)

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-- iqdupont.com
Assistant Professor <https://people.ucd.ie/quinn.dupont>, School of
Business, University College Dublin

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