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

[Preeti Raghunath]

Hi everyone,

I hope you are well. I'm happy to share our new edited collection Critical
Political Economy and Southern Approaches to AI: A Dialogue
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-14090-6>, published a
week ago with Palgrave Macmillan.

*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


We will have an online launch soon and details are forthcoming. It would be
great to have you join us and hear the authors. Thanks and hope you have a
great week ahead!

Best,
Preeti


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

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