Possible Worlds In Impossible Spaces: Knowledge, Globality, Gender, And Information Technology In The Philippines
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At the crossroads of globalization, gender, and the digital age, Possible Worlds in Impossible Spaces presents a groundbreaking examination of how information technology reshapes social realities in the Philippines, a nation uniquely positioned at the intersection of postcolonial identity and rapid technological change. Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu chronicles the lives and experiences of Filipino women navigating the IT sector, illuminating how they construct agency, knowledge, and belonging within systems that are simultaneously empowering and constraining. Drawing on rich sociological fieldwork and feminist theory, Saloma-Akpedonu argues that the impossible spaces of the digital economy are, paradoxically, fertile ground for reimagining gendered possibilities in Southeast Asia. Her analysis is both rigorous and evocative, weaving together macro-level forces of global capitalism with the intimate, everyday negotiations of identity and power. A vital contribution to postcolonial and gender studies, this work leaves the reader questioning what it truly means to belong — and to thrive — in a world being remade by invisible networks.
Author: Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu
Format: Paperback
Published: 2006, Ateneo de Manila University Press
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of globalization, gender, and the digital age, Possible Worlds in Impossible Spaces presents a groundbreaking examination of how information technology reshapes social realities in the Philippines, a nation uniquely positioned at the intersection of postcolonial identity and rapid technological change. Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu chronicles the lives and experiences of Filipino women navigating the IT sector, illuminating how they construct agency, knowledge, and belonging within systems that are simultaneously empowering and constraining. Drawing on rich sociological fieldwork and feminist theory, Saloma-Akpedonu argues that the impossible spaces of the digital economy are, paradoxically, fertile ground for reimagining gendered possibilities in Southeast Asia. Her analysis is both rigorous and evocative, weaving together macro-level forces of global capitalism with the intimate, everyday negotiations of identity and power. A vital contribution to postcolonial and gender studies, this work leaves the reader questioning what it truly means to belong — and to thrive — in a world being remade by invisible networks.