Unit:
Specialty Science, Technology, Society-Science and Technology StudiesLibrary of the School of Science
Author:
Kizito Sebastian-Alexandros
Supervisors info:
Στάθης Αραποστάθης: Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μεθοδολογίας, Ιστορίας και Θεωρίας της Επιστήμης, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Αριστοτέλης Τύμπας: Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μεθοδολογίας, Ιστορίας και Θεωρίας της Επιστήμης, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Γιώργος Βελεγράκης: Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μεθοδολογίας, Ιστορίας και Θεωρίας της Επιστήμης, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Original Title:
“The technopolitics between the Global North and the Global South: behind the smartphone’s Lithium-ion battery
Translated title:
The technopolitics between the Global North and the Global South: behind the smartphone’s Lithium-ion battery
Summary:
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate lithium-ion batteries in the context of smart
devices such as a smartphone. The central question refers to how lithium-ion batteries
are constituted as an opaque and black-boxed technology against the backdrop of the
relations between Global South (where the extraction of important materials such as
cobalt takes place) and the Global North (where these materials are used for the
production of smartphones). Particular attention is paid to how colonial practices of
excavating cobalt are connected to the presentation of a device as smart in the North
Main subject category:
Technology - Computer science
Keywords:
lithium-ion batteries, smartphones, cobalt, technopolitics, Global North, Global South, Environment
