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urn:uuid:5dc90ef2-3d6b-4696-9881-e0b6db270fa2 03 15 9781912729357 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Technoscientific Globalisation from Below 1 A01 Mathieu Quet Mathieu Quet, sociologist, is a research director at Institut de recherche pour le développement, Paris, and a member of the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED), Université Paris Cité. His research focuses upon the social aspects of pharmaceutical development in India, and he is more generally interested in observing the globalisation of technological markets from Global South countries. He authored Illicit Medicines in the Global South. Public Health Access and Pharmaceutical Regulation (Routledge 2021). 2 B01 Koichi Kameda Koichi Kameda de Figueiredo Carvalho holds a PhD in sociology (EHESS, Paris) and a BA in law (UERJ, Brazil). He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center Emile Durkheim at the University of Bordeaux and is an associate researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Public Health Emergencies (NIESP/Fiocruz, Brazil) and at CEPED/Université Paris Cité. His work focuses on issues related to biomedicine, global health, intellectual property, and pharmaceutical markets and social justice, and he has worked on local manufacturing and regulation of diagnostics and vaccines in the Global South and public health–oriented R&D models. 3 B01 Jessica Pourraz Jessica Pourraz holds a PhD in sociology (2019) from the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She is a postdoctoral research fellow with Sciences Po Bordeaux and an associate researcher at the Center for Human Sciences (CSH) in Delhi. Her research focuses on issues related to science, biomedicine, the environment, and health, and more particularly on the health effects of air pollution in India and Ghana. 4 B01 Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar Yves-marie Rault-Chodankar is an associate professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an associate researcher at the Pôle de recherche pour l’organisation et la diffusion de l’information géographique (Prodig). His work sits at the intersection of economic geography and development studies, examining how emerging economies integrate into global value chains and drive regional development in the Global South. Through extensive fieldwork in India, Yves-Marie’s ethnographic research captures the lived realities of local entrepreneurs, particularly in the pharmaceutical sector, to show how they adapt and innovate to reshape global production networks from below. 01 eng 00 335 03 10 BUS068000 10 TEC072000 10 TEC052000 01 06 03 00 Global South populations, firms and governments play a key role in redefining the relationship between sciences, technologies and markets on an international scale. Forces shaping the future of global technoscience emerge from unexpected places, prompting a reassessment of global power processes. This volume contains rich case studies studying technoscientific globalization ‘from below’ drawn from fieldwork in Asia, Latin America and Africa, examining the interplay between technology, power, and society at the global scale. The cases are grounded in postcolonial Science and Technology Studies and address a range of topics including pharmaceutical markets, scientific developments and digital practices. This approach illuminates the multiple creative ways in which subaltern players appropriate, divert, overturn or bypass prevailing views on technology and market construction. 04 00 Figures Tables Funding acknowledgements Author biographies 1. Introduction. Rethinking technoscientific globalisation with the Global South The Technoglob Collective SECTION 1. LIVING OFF THE INFORMAL 2. Enabling and resisting the platform economy from below: Platform immigrant workers in Ecuador Henry Chávez and María Belén Albornoz 3. Digital knowledge from below: Low-skilled labour migration to the Gulf countries and technology adoption in India Javed Mohammad Alam SECTION 2. NAVIGATING INTERNATIONAL INEQUITIES 4. Calibrating the global: How are Ghanaian scientists shifting Africa’s position in global atmospheric science? Jessica Pourraz and Allison Felix Hughes 5. Affirming pharmaceutical sovereignty: Technology transfer agreements and vaccine geopolitics during a global health emergency Koichi Kameda, Denise Pimenta, and Gustavo Matta 6. A human drug amid animal diseases: The ecology of globalised heparin Thibaut Serviant-Fine SECTION 3. ADJUSTING THE GLOBAL 7. Patching development: Information technology adjustments in the Mauritian logistical sector Marine Al Dahdah and Mathieu Quet 8. Halting the ‘forced march’: The ups and downs of Chad’s integration into global pharmaceutical markets Ilyass Mahamat Nour Moussa Section 4: Creating alternative values 9. Making value off-patent: India’s pharmaceutical globalisation Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar 10. The division of biometric labour: Relations of production in African voter-identification technologies Cecilia Passanti 11. How magic bullets travel: An account of ready-to-use therapeutic food in India Aamod Utpal Photos of the Technoglob collective Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press 04 01 20250908 02 WORLD 06 15 9781912729388 06 15 9781912729364 06 15 9781912729371 06 15 9781912729357 WORLD 09 Mattering Press 20 01