Author meets Comrades: Data Power, Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance
Type: Virtual Panel
Day: 2/28/2022
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 3:20 PM
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Sponsor Group(s):
Digital Geographies Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Nick Lally
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Chairs(s):
Nick Lally, University of Kentucky
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Description:
In recent years, popular media have inundated audiences with sensationalised headlines recounting data breaches, new forms of surveillance and other dangers of our digital age. Despite their regularity, such accounts treat each case as unprecedented and unique.
Using examples as varied as writings on the first telephones to the experiences of a feminist collective for migrant women in Spain, Thatcher and Dalton (2021) makes the case that through intentional use of these technologies pathways open for subversion, resistance, and solidarity. In the face of the at times seemingly inevitable dominance of corporate interests, they argue these technologies allow for the creation of new spaces of affinity, and a new politics of change.
This session brings together scholars that broadly share their convictions with Thatcher and Dalton, but approach these questions from a variety of personal and political perspectives outside of their own. Producing a lively, nuanced debate, the reviews offered here will be collected in Antipode.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
Role | Participant |
Panelist | Ian Spangler |
Panelist | Luis Alvarez Leon Dartmouth College |
Panelist | Ofurhe Igbinedion |
Panelist | Emma Fraser University of California Berkeley |
Introduction | Nick Lally University of Kentucky |
Discussant | Jim Thatcher University of Washington Tacoma |
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Author meets Comrades: Data Power, Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance
Description
Virtual Panel
Contact the Primary Organizer
Jim Thatcher - thatchja@oregonstate.edu