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<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" align="left"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Annual
Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)</span></b></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">New Orleans, Louisiana</span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">18-21 November, 2021</span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Session theme</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">: Beyond the Deficiency Narrative: Postcolonial
Histories of LTS in </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><span> </span>Sub-Saharan Africa. </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Description </span></b></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 36pt; line-height: normal;" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">In the 1960s and 1970s, technology was seen as an
avenue, through which Africa </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">could be
equal among ‘gods’, a platform to build hubris narrative. The nations were </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">still
newly independent full of euphoria and vigour to denounce the long colonial </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">underdevelopment
episode. On one hand, the new independent nations had a </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">mission
to disprove the former colonial powers that they were capable of unbridling </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">underdevelopment
by themselves. On the other hand, they had a mission of showing </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">and
mobilizing their masses towards a freer and a people-centred development. This </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">two-pronged
mission would utilize technology, especially the large technical systems </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(LTS), as
the means to the end. Urban environments served as platforms of flaunting </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">and
exploiting new technologies, especially roads, water, sanitation and power </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">network.
Despite the introduction or expansion of such networks, colonial deficiency </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">persisted
through the post colony. As observed by Akallah and Hård (2020), the </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">perpetuation
of the kind of ‘deficiency narratives’ in LTS and Urban Studies derive </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">from
inadequate theorisation and biased methodologies. Overlooking the daily use of </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">technology
and various groups’ experience of their material surroundings, established </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">story
lines end up as unilateral accounts that fail to provide insight into the </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">complexity
of the urban landscape (ibid). In this session, we seek to explore the cross-</span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">sectional
stories of the early postcolonial LTS projects in Sub-Saharan Africa from the </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">vantage
point of history of technology and locate the different trajectories that
inform </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">the
processes of appropriation. How does space, national developmental philosophies
</span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">and
political praxis shape adoption and production of technical knowledge? In </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">attempting
to answer such questions, we seek to appreciate the stories themselves and </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">the
agency of the local people. We seek to develop new avenues of historiographical
</span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">interpretations
on technology from the South. This contributes greatly to the </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">internationalization
of History of Technology. </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">As such we invite session abstracts of not more than 300 words of the
following </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">themes;</span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Power generation and distribution </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Road
and drainage building </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Water and
sanitation systems </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-
Mobility in urban areas </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Cold
War Politics and LTS </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-
Appropriation of technological knowledge </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="ydp8a56609aMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:36.0pt;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Kindly submit abstracts together with short bios
and institutional affiliations to the conveners Dr. J. Akallah at
ayumbajetty@yahoo.com based at Maseno University, Kenya and F. Edward at
f38edward@yahoo.co.uk based at University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The
deadline for submission is <b>April 6, 2021</b>.
</span></div>
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