Séance 5 - Infrastructures, industries et technologies

Lecture obligatoire: Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye, 'Radio and the road: infrastructure, mobility and political change in the beginnings of Radio rurale de Kayes (1980-early 2000s), The Journal of African History, 62.1 (2021): 125–149.

Lectures complémentaires:

• Anwar, M. A. (2025). Worker power in self-organised networks: Algorithmic management, solidarity and resistance on platforms. Platforms & Society, 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251369063 (Original work published 2025)
• de Seta, G., Pohjonen, M., & Knuutila, A. (2024). Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models. Big Data & Society, 11(4), Article 20539517241303126. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241303126
• Jedlowski, Alessandro.« Afriques audiovisuelles : appréhender les transformations contemporaines au prisme du capitalisme global ». Politique africaine, 2019/1 n° 153, 2019. p.7-27.

• Arthur Asseraf. Electric News in Colonial Algeria. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019.

• Hajer ben Boubaker, 'Le Maghreb des ondes: un enjeu colonial', France Culture, LSD, 8 épisodes, 2024: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/serie-le-maghreb-des-ondes-un-enjeu-colonial#concept-about 
• Summers Carol, (2015). Slander, Buzz and Spin: Telegrams, politics and global communications in the Uganda Protectorate, 1945–55. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 16. 
• Moorman, Marissa J. Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002. 1st ed., Ohio University Press, 2019.
• Brennan James, 'Radio Cairo and the Decolonizationof East Africa, 1953-1964', in Christopher Lee (ed.), Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives,  Athens, Ohio UP, pp. 173-195.
• Scales, Rebecca P. “Dangerous Airwaves: Propaganda, Surveillance, and the Politics of Listening in French Colonial Algeria.” Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921–1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 207–257.
• Grabli, Charlotte.« La ville des auditeurs : radio, rumba congolaise et droit à la ville dans la cité indigène de Léopoldville (1949-1960) ». Cahiers d'études africaines,2019/1 n° 233, 2019. p.9-45.