[Air-L] Book announcement: Digital Solidarity Economy in Latin America

[Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann]

Dear colleagues,

I'm delighted to announce the forthcoming book Digital Solidarity Economy in Latin America (Bristol University Press, October 2026), edited by me, Alessio Bertolini and Maria Belen Albornoz.

Link: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/digital-solidarity-economy-in-latin-america

This book proposes the concept of the digital solidarity economy as a theoretical and political framework for understanding the experiences of workers and communities seeking to govern technologies from below in Latin America. Emerging from a workshop held in Quito, Ecuador, in 2023, which brought together collectives, cooperatives, policymakers, and scholars from across the region, the volume recovers the long history of Latin American struggles around the solidarity economy and alternative technologies, from CyberSyn in Chile to national informatics plans in the 1970s and 1980s, to the free software movements, arguing that contemporary collectives across the region are updating this tradition by building initiatives of digital solidarity economies. Through case studies and comparative analyses spanning multiple countries and sectors, the book articulates movements that do not always walk together: feminist economies, decolonial responses to digital colonialism, digital commons, platform cooperativism, and struggles for tech sovereignty, offering a reimagination of digital presents and futures rooted in the needs and values of Latin American people.

Foreword by Nick Couldry. With chapters by Livia Ascava, Adam Badger, Alexandre Costa Barbosa, Julieta Grasas, Alexandra Belén Gualavisí, Hugo Jácome Estrella, Denise Kasparian, Eduardo Meneses, Cecilia Muñoz Cancela, Aline Os, Marcella Pazan, Lucy Pei, Julián Rebón, Daniel Santini, Jonas Valente, Betiana Vargas, Daniel Vizuete, among others.

More soon!

best,

Rafael



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dr. Rafael Grohmann

Assistant Professor of Media Studies

Department of Arts, Culture and Media<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann>

Faculty of Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/>

University of Toronto

Leader, DigiLabour<https://digilabour.com.br/>
Research Associate, University of Oxford<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/rafael-grohmann/>

Founding Editor, Platforms & Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS>

Principal Investigator, Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP)<https://digilabour.com.br/worker-owned-intersectional-platforms-woip/>

Co-Lead, Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF)<https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labour-critical-futures/>

Researcher, AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work<https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ai-policy-observatory-for-the-world-of-work>
Senior Fellow, Massey College<https://www.masseycollege.ca/>

Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society<https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>  <https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>
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