More recently, African states have turned to surveillance technologies, biometric systems, drones, satellites and digital public infrastructures (DPI) to address a broad range of social, political, and security challenges. This process of technicization, however, unfolds within a context marked by a proliferation of uncertainties and states of emergency (health-related, demographic, humanitarian, ecological, economic, and migratory) that affect Africa as much as the rest of the world. Yet, contrary to recurrent diagnoses emphasizing the weakness, poverty, or corruption of African administrations, many states display a relatively unexpected capacity for resilience and adaptation in the face of these constraints.<\/p>\n
This seminar proposes to analyse the foundations of this adaptive capacity through the lens of the concept of the \u201cagile society.\u201d It examines how African societies confront uncertainty through a combination of technological solutions, institutional bricolage, and ongoing practices of improvisation and negotiation. Far from constituting a simple process of technological catch-up, this agility reveals specific forms of governing through emergency, in which technologies function simultaneously as instruments of management, power, and the reconfiguration of relations between the state, society, and infrastructures.<\/p>\n
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Georges Macaire Eyenga<\/strong>\u00a0is a researcher at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the*University of Dschang, Cameroon. His research focuses on African technoscapes, with particular attention to the ways in which African governments mobilize technological solutions to sustain state capacity in the face of political demands and internal and external pressures that threaten stability and durability. He has published several peer-reviewed articles on contemporary technological infrastructures and devices, including surveillance systems, biometric technologies, drones, digital platforms, and satellite internet. His current research examines scientific collaborations and practices of quantification in forest ecology in Central Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More recently, African states have turned to surveillance technologies, biometric systems, drones, satellites and digital public infrastructures (DPI) to address a broad range of social, political, and security challenges. This process of technicization, however, unfolds within a context marked by a proliferation of uncertainties and states of emergency (health-related, demographic, humanitarian, ecological, economic, and migratory) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":188373,"template":"","class_list":["post-188372","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_category-forelaesning"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n