[Air-L] Invitation to Book Launch: Critical Political Economy and Southern Approaches to AI: A Dialogue

[Preeti Raghunath]

Hi everyone,

I hope you are well. Our group of fabulous authors and I as editor of the
new collection Critical
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-14090-6>

Political Economy and Southern Approaches to AI: A Dialogue
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-14090-6> (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2026) would like to invite you to our online book launch. I
would love for you to come by and hear our authors speak about their
respective chapters and the research underpinning them. Online joining
details as well as information about the book are below:

Online book launch of ‘Critical Political Economy and Southern Approaches
to AI: A Dialogue’, edited by Preeti Raghunath

Date: May 12, 2026/Tuesday

Meeting time and time zones:

Yogyakarta: 8 - 9.30 pm

New Delhi: 6.30 - 8 pm

São Paulo: 10 - 11.30 am

Toronto/Ontario: 9 - 10:30 am

Texas: 8 - 9:30 am

Sheffield: 2:00 – 3:30pm

Google Meet joining info: https://meet.google.com/xhy-vyha-jcd


About the book: This book presents a dialogue between two seemingly
incompatible bodies of social theories - Critical Political Economy and
Southern approaches - to the study of artificial intelligence (AI)
technologies. In doing so, the book presents scholarly engagement with the
ways in which AI is being experienced in sites in the Global South, with
authors exploring questions of sociality, further entrenching of inequities
along labour and caste lines, socio-legal ramifications of digital IDs, and
undesired outcomes such as deepfakes and their integration in the political
ecosystem, among others. These perspectives interrogate and provide
scholarly vocabulary to understand the various applications of artificial
intelligence (AI) in our professional, legal and media spaces.


Table of contents

1. Conversing Across Incommensurables?: Critical Political Economy and

Southern Approaches to Artificial Intelligence

Preeti Raghunath

2. Data, Anthropology and the Surplus Value of Sociality

Deepak Prince

3. The Plight of Female Gig Workers in Indonesia

Suci Lestari Yuana

4. A Critical Political Economy of Campaign Deepfakes in Indian Elections

Sananda Sahoo

5. The Brazilian State and Human Rights: Citizen Identification and

Informational Separation of Powers

Gabrielle Bezerra Sales Sarlet, Lucas Reckziegel Weschenfelder

6. Caste Bias in Indian Prison Datasets: A Data Feminism Study on Kaggle.com

Nishanshi Shukla

7. Epilogue: From Frontier Technologies to Frontier Lives

Preeti Raghunath


This book is published as part of the Palgrave Global Media Policy and
Business Series <https://link.springer.com/series/14699>, which has
published over 22 books since its launch in 2012. Concentrating on the
social, cultural, political, political-economic, institutional, and
technological changes arising from the globalization and digitization of
media and communications industries, the series considers the impact of
these changes on business practice, regulation and policy, and social
outcomes. If you’re interested in pitching to the book series, you can
reach the editors and editorial board here
<https://link.springer.com/series/14699/editors>.


Looking forward to seeing you there!

Best,

Preeti



Dr Preeti Raghunath, SFHEA
Lecturer in Digital Media and Society
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
University of Sheffield, UK

🌐preetiraghunath.com
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