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Subject: [hackademia] new: COVID-19 from the margins (open access!)
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 11:28:35 +0100
From: Stefania Milan <lists@???>
Reply-To: Stefania Milan <lists@???>
To: hackademia@???
Dear all
apologies for cross-posting!
We are thrilled to announce the publication of "COVID-19 from the
Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the
Datafied Society”, an edited volume that explores pandemic
invisibilities and datafied policies, but also forms of resistance and
creativity of communities at the margins as they try to negotiate
survival during COVID.
Published by the Amsterdam-based Institute of Network Cultures, the book
features 75 authors writing in 5 languages in 282 pages that amplify the
silenced voices of the first pandemic of the datafied society. It seeks
to de-center dominant ways of being and knowing while contributing a
decolonial approach to the narration of the COVID-19 crisis. It brings
researchers, activists, practitioners, and communities on the ground
into dialogue to offer critical reflections in near-real time and in an
accessible language, from indigenous groups in New Zealand to
impoverished families in Spain, from data activists in South Africa to
gig workers in India, from feminicidios in Mexico to North/South
stereotypes in Europe, from astronomers in Brazil to questions of
infrastructure in Russia and Github activism in China—and much more!
The book is proudly **open access**. You can download the .pdf and .epub
versions
from
https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/covid-19-from-the-margins-pandemic-invisibilities-policies-and-resistance-in-the-datafied-society/
<
https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/covid-19-from-the-margins-pandemic-invisibilities-policies-and-resistance-in-the-datafied-society/>.
While supplies last, we are also distributing printed copies for free
(se the same link to order yours).
Curious? This is what Colombian anthropologist Arturo Escobar, author of
‘Designs for the Pluriverse. Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the
Making of Worlds’ (Duke UP, 2018), wrote about the book: ‘COVID-19 from
the Margins caringly and thoughtfully demonstrates why the multiplicity
we call “the poor” is more than ever at the receiving end of the worst
effects of globalized, patriarchal/colonial racist capitalism. But they
are not passive victims, for their everyday forms of activism and
re-existence, including their daily tweaking of the digital for purposes
of community, care, and survival, has incredible insights about design
and digital justice that this book takes to heart as we strive to undo
the lethal effects of “the first pandemic of the datafied society”’.
A number of book launch event will follow in the coming weeks. To stay
up-to-date, please visit the DATACTIVE website or follow the project on
Twitter (@BigDataSur).
Download, share and enjoy!
Best, the COVID-19 from the Margins editorial team
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