[Air-L] Reminder: Online Book Talk on Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South
Rafael Grohmann
rafael-ng at uol.com.br
Fri Nov 10 08:46:34 PST 2023
Hi!
ICYMI: Now, 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
Check your time zone!
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
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