- Title Pages
- Inside Technology Series
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction: Beyond Imported Magic -
2 Who Invented Brazil? -
3 Innovation and Inclusive Development in the South: A Critical Perspective -
4 Working with Care: Narratives of Invisible Women Scientists Practicing Forensic Genetics in Colombia -
5 Ontological Politics and Latin American Local Knowledges -
6 Technology in an Expanded Field: A Review of History ofTechnology Scholarship on Latin America in SelectedEnglish-Language Journals -
7 South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Argentina -
8 Tropical Assemblage: The Soviet Large Panel in Cuba -
9 Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery -
10 Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child’s XO Laptop in Paraguay -
11 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries Has Been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America -
12 Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale PeruvianExpeditions -
13 Bottling Atomic Energy: Technology, Politics, and the State in Peronist Argentina -
14 Peaceful Atoms in Mexico -
15 Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy, and Democracy in Chile -
16 Creole Interferences: A Conflict over Biodiversity and Ownership in the South of Brazil -
17 The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts - Contributors
- Index
Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child’s XO Laptop in Paraguay
Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child’s XO Laptop in Paraguay
- Chapter:
- (p.207) 10 Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child’s XO Laptop in Paraguay
- Source:
- Beyond Imported Magic
- Author(s):
Morgan G. Ames
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Ames describes the appeal of the XO laptop, created by the One Laptop per Child program, in Paraguay in terms of the concept of the charismatic object, which exerts power not because of what it is but because of what it promises to do. Tracing the everyday challenges related to the use of the XO laptop in the classroom and the networks of NGOs, teachers, and government officials involved in the program, Ames explains why the Paraguayan program has been more successful than most and retains its appeal despite those challenges.
Keywords: Technology design, XO laptop, charismatic object, software engineering, educational software, NGO, Paraguay
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- Title Pages
- Inside Technology Series
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction: Beyond Imported Magic -
2 Who Invented Brazil? -
3 Innovation and Inclusive Development in the South: A Critical Perspective -
4 Working with Care: Narratives of Invisible Women Scientists Practicing Forensic Genetics in Colombia -
5 Ontological Politics and Latin American Local Knowledges -
6 Technology in an Expanded Field: A Review of History ofTechnology Scholarship on Latin America in SelectedEnglish-Language Journals -
7 South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Argentina -
8 Tropical Assemblage: The Soviet Large Panel in Cuba -
9 Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery -
10 Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child’s XO Laptop in Paraguay -
11 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries Has Been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America -
12 Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale PeruvianExpeditions -
13 Bottling Atomic Energy: Technology, Politics, and the State in Peronist Argentina -
14 Peaceful Atoms in Mexico -
15 Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy, and Democracy in Chile -
16 Creole Interferences: A Conflict over Biodiversity and Ownership in the South of Brazil -
17 The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts - Contributors
- Index
