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Maitrayee Deka

What are postcolonial peer‐production practices? This chapter aims to answer this question by examining the ways in which postcolonial peer production has emerged as a way to provincialize the dominant Euro‐American versions. The proposition that imagines the West as the unique origin of peer‐production practices is disrupted in this chapter, which traces the histories of peer production in postcolonial contexts and highlights their main characteristics. The main focus of the chapter is to centralize embodied knowledge systems and ad hoc techno‐social assemblages that form a large part of creative and productive practices in the Global South. By highlighting popular bases of knowledge creation, one diverts attention from the dominant Euro‐American peer communities in their reliance on creative figures onto a more chaotic universe of creative practices.