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This chapter advances subversive localization. The author uses subversive localization as a way of discussing the instant when a user picks “up available tools, adapts them in idiosyncratic ways, and makes do.” When the EC adopted the biometric technology, officials of the commission realized that the manual accompanying the biometric technology did not say anything about how the biometric will be used to register voters and illustrations did not help users to understand how to use the biometric in the electoral process. The commission, thus, redesigned the user manual to meet local needs, that is, the electoral process of Ghana. The author indicates that the users in Ghana are able to subvert and redesign a new user manual because they possess practical wisdom.

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Dorpenyo, I.K. (2020). Subversive Localization. In: User Localization Strategies in the Face of Technological Breakdown. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26399-7_7

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