The machinery of #techno-colonialism crafting “democracy.” A glimpse into digital sub-netizenship in Mexico

Matute, Inés Durán; González, Rodrigo Camarena

doi:10.1080/13510347.2021.1947248

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“…Given that the global colonial matrix of power confines and configures 'the analogue-digital dimensions of life' (Matute & González, 2021) beyond the boundaries of the nation state, a transnational approach can powerfully reveal shared authoritarian practices and mechanisms of repression. Drawing on postcolonial and decolonial critiques of digital geographies and emerging polymedia praxis, I engaged in what Postill and Pink (2012) refer to as 'media switching' to maintain dynamic digital social relationships across time and space, while remaining conscious of how digital spaces compound rather than diffuse existing social inequalities and colonial power logics.…”

Section: Decolonial Praxis For Researching Resistance and Infrastruct...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The multifaceted colonial histories of infrastructure (Mbembe & Roitman, 1995;van der Straeten & Hasenöhrl, 2016) and their rejection or adoption by settler colonial and post-colonial governments have been well documented (Curley, 2021;Enns & Bersaglio, 2020). This includes work on the material and epistemic coloniality of infrastructure (Davies, 2021), the racializing colonial logics used to promote large-scale infrastructure projects in African countries (Murrey & Jackson, 2020), and the ways in which digital infrastructures embed and reflect coloniality (Kwet, 2019), 'data colonialism' (Couldry & Mejias, 2019) and '#techno-colonialism' (Matute & González, 2021). Colonial projects have relied on infrastructures which, in Curley's terms (2021:, p. 400) 'are both the physical and political structure of colonialism.…”

Section: The Coloniality Of Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

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A decolonial political geography of resistance and digital infrastructural harm in Cameroon and Ethiopia

Murrey

2022

Globalizations

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In the decisive responses to protest movements in Ethiopia and Cameroon between 2015 and 2018, state control and repression were facilitated by colonial-corporate digital infrastructures and neo-imperial techno-political configurations. In both cases, resistance was met with pervasive stateinitiated and corporate-sanctioned internet shutdowns and disruptions. I situate these techno-political practices within the longue durée of coloniality to argue that the state suspension of internet connectivity is a form of infrastructural harm; an intentional violence made socially and structurally possible by the colonial configurations of infrastructure. My analysis draws from five years of digital ethnography and ethnographic fieldwork, including 13 months in Jimma, Ethiopia and nine months in Yaoundé, Cameroon. I mobilize a decolonial praxis that unmasks practices of authoritarian control within global racial coloniality, and seeks to foster cross-fertilizations of struggle and resistance praxis.

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Section: Decolonial Praxis For Researching Resistance and Infrastruct...mentioning

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Section: The Coloniality Of Infrastructurementioning

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A decolonial political geography of resistance and digital infrastructural harm in Cameroon and Ethiopia

Murrey

2022

Globalizations

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Coloniality of Democracy and Algocracy in Africa:Vanhucracyas an Afrocentric Model for Politics

Nhemachena

2024

Journal of Black Studies

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Originating from a Greek goddess called Demokratia, democracy constitutes a coup de ‘tat against African spirituality and against Afrocentric politics. Subjected not only to the Greek goddess Demokratia but also to algocracy, corporatocracy, and technocracy, African politics has long ceased to be Afrocentric in the sense of serving the material interests of African people. Drawing on the Shona (a people of Zimbabwe) term vanhu (humans) to coin the word vanhucracy, and drawing on intensive literature review, this paper argues that Western democracy is in fact colonial in the sense of it bypassing African material interests and in its privileging of liberal rights. In this regard, the paper also frames the argument in terms of what it calls the coloniality of democracy which speaks to how Demokratia disrupts Afrocentric politics.

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L’adoption de la chaîne de blocs dans le cinéma

Gaitán¹

2023

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La technologie chaîne de blocs et ses applications, telles que les contrats intelligents (smart contracts), l’organisation décentralisée autonome (OAD) et les jetons non fongibles (NFTs) font partie des technologies de l’avenir pour le financement du cinéma indépendant. D’un côté, ces innovations favorisent la chaîne de valeur du secteur grâce à la transparence et à la traçabilité des financements octroyés aux films. De l’autre, les cinéastes indépendants rencontrent beaucoup de difficultés à boucler leurs budgets et ces plateformes représentent de nouvelles dépenses, ainsi qu’une courbe d’apprentissage longue et coûteuse.

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The machinery of #techno-colonialism crafting “democracy.” A glimpse into digital sub-netizenship in Mexico

Cited by 3 publications

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A decolonial political geography of resistance and digital infrastructural harm in Cameroon and Ethiopia

A decolonial political geography of resistance and digital infrastructural harm in Cameroon and Ethiopia

Coloniality of Democracy and Algocracy in Africa:Vanhucracyas an Afrocentric Model for Politics

L’adoption de la chaîne de blocs dans le cinéma

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