Fwd: Reminder: Online Book Talk on Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South

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De: Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann <rafael....@utoronto.ca>
Date: qua., 8 de nov. de 2023 às 21:30
Subject: Reminder: Online Book Talk on Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South
To: Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann <rafael....@utoronto.ca>

Hi there!

A kind reminder: This Friday, 2PM ET, I'll host an online book talk with Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, author of "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South" (Stanford University Press, 2023).

This will happen via DigiLabour YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5su09ILfgQ

Please send to your students and colleagues!

About the book:

Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, prompting movements to train individuals in information and communication technologies and foster the participation and retention of women in science and technology fields. In this book, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle argues that these efforts have given rise to an idealized, female economic figure that combines technological dexterity and keen entrepreneurial instinct with gendered stereotypes of care and selflessness. Narratives about the "equalizing" potential of digital technologies spotlight these women's capacity to overcome inequality using said technologies, ignoring the barriers and circumstances that create such inequality in the first place as well as the potentially violent role of technology in their lives. In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure examines how women in the Global South experience and resist the coopting and depoliticizing nature of these scripts. Drawing on fieldwork in Costa Rica and a transnational feminist digital organization, Shokooh Valle explores the ways that feminist activists, using digital technologies as well as a collective politics that prioritize solidarity and pleasure, advance a new feminist technopolitics.

About the author:

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College. Previously, she was a journalist in Puerto Rico covering violence against women, the LGBTQI+ community, migration, racism, and social movements, and earned numerous national awards for her investigative work.

See you there!

best,

Rafael

dr. Rafael Grohmann

Assistant Professor of Media Studies

Department of Arts, Culture and Media

Faculty of Information

University of Toronto

Leader, DigiLabour

Principal Investigator, Fairwork Brazil

International Experts Coordinator, Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab

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