4S Toronto - Code, Bodies, and Territories - Submit your abstracts by April 30

[Diego Vicentin]

Bom dia,

Gostaríamos de convidar pesquisadores a submeter seus resumos para o nosso Painel Aberto da 4S: Código, Corpos e Territórios: Colonialismo Digital e Resistência na América Latina.

https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_toronto.php 

Embora as submissões devam ser feitas em inglês, nosso objetivo é expandir nossa comunidade de prática e nos conectar por meio de experiências, conceitos e problemas que nos unem em diferentes idiomas.

Confiram abaixo as datas principais e a descrição do painel, e sintam-se à vontade para entrar em contato caso tenham alguma dúvida. Recomendamos consultar o site da 4S para verificar outras datas relacionadas a auxílios-viagem e oportunidades de voluntariado.

Atenciosamente,

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Deadline for abstract submissions: April 30

Notification of Abstract Acceptance: May 29, 2026

Early Bird Registration: June 1—July 3, 2026

4S 2026 Conference: October 7-10, 2026

209 Code, Bodies, and Territories: Digital Colonialism and Resistance in Latin America

Fernanda R. Rosa, Virginia Tech; Diego Vicentin, Unicamp; Carolina Israel, Federal University of Paraná; Rodolfo Avelino, Insper; Leonardo Cruz, Federal University of Pará

Information, Computing and Media Technology; Decolonial and Postcolonial STS; Feminist STS

The constitution of modernity is inseparable from scientific narratives that defend universality as a principle of knowledge production. Consequently, the Western technical incorporation into the bodies and territories, as taught by Indigenous and Black peoples, has become a systematic mechanism of subalternization of traditional, local, popular, and dissident knowledge. The forms of resistance that historically emerge involve multiple strategies that encompass both the preservation of knowledge, memory and identities and the technical appropriation following different sociotechnical arrangements. Given these guiding principles and the current techno-productive transformations that emerge with AI, this panel constitutes a space-time to address the relationships between digital technologies, including code, infrastructure, and their governance, as devices of bodily, epistemic, ontological, and territorial domination in Latin America, as well as the forms of resistance in their multiple configurations. Indigenous practices, maintained for centuries on the continent, are the prime example of such resistance, to which the struggles of Black and maroon populations, women, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, those under social vulnerability, among others, are added.

Despite techno-epistemic hegemonies, Indigenous and Decolonial Science and Technology Studies (STS) emerge as a possibility for repositioning academic research in a way that is committed to a pluriversal future that respects multiple cosmotechnics and symmetrical dialogue with diverse forms of knowledge. In line with this horizon, this panel establishes among its objectives: To provide a space for debate focused on the possibilities of techno-scientific (re)making in dialogue with the pluriversality of knowledge and technologies; To reimagine code, infrastructure, and governance of digital technologies mediating human and nonhuman relations; To socialize experiences, research, and actions that aim at counterpointing hegemonic digital socio-technical relations; To share knowledge and experiences about the characteristics of Latin American techniques in the embodiment of the digital, highlighting the relationships between technique, territory, and body.

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Diego Vicentin