Planning smart, working hard: unveiling the ‘hidden’ labour behind digital connectivity in Tanzanian agriculture

dc.contributor.authorTups, Gideon
dc.contributor.authorMatejcek, Astrid
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-16T09:58:17Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractDigital connectivity is touted as a smart solution to spatial, informational and economical ‘problems’ at the global margins. At the threshold between development discourse and practice, (under)valued labour and (in)visible infrastructures, two case studies of digital connectivity projects in Tanzania's agricultural sector illustrate the interplay of smart plans and hard work when digital infrastructures are set up between firms and farms. A conceptual emphasis on infrastructuring labour contributes to highlighting and scrutinising the supposed smartness of digital solutions in relation to the inherent hidden, frugal and precarious work required for their construction and maintenance.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-14868
dc.identifier.urihttps://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/14889
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc910 Geografiede
dc.subject.ddc910 Geography and travelen
dc.titlePlanning smart, working hard: unveiling the ‘hidden’ labour behind digital connectivity in Tanzanian agricultureen
dc.typeZeitschriftenaufsatz
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jgu.apc.transformationcontractTaylor & Francis
jgu.dfg.year2025
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jgu.journal.issue2
jgu.journal.titleTerritory, politics, governance
jgu.journal.volume14
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jgu.organisation.departmentFB 09 Chemie, Pharmazie u. Geowissensch.
jgu.organisation.nameJohannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
jgu.organisation.number7950
jgu.organisation.placeMainz
jgu.organisation.rorhttps://ror.org/023b0x485
jgu.pages.end243
jgu.pages.start224
jgu.publisher.doi10.1080/21622671.2025.2504968
jgu.publisher.eissn2162-268X
jgu.publisher.nameTaylor & Francis
jgu.publisher.placeAbingdon
jgu.publisher.year2025
jgu.rights.accessrightsopenAccess
jgu.subject.ddccode910
jgu.subject.dfgNaturwissenschaften
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