The new knowledge politics of digital colonialism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4139965
AutoresJason C Young (0000-0003-2537-4255, Technology & Social Change Group, Information School, University of Washington, United States, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume51
Fascículo7
Páginas1424-1441
Data de publicação2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308518x19858998
OpenAlexW2949382116
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas29
Referências citadas43

While the impacts of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on society have been extensively studied, the most nuanced research approaches continue to focus on urban geographies in the Global North. There remains a paucity of critical work that focuses on ICT use in Indigenous, rural, and Global South communities. This paper responds to that gap by critically examining how the introduction of ICTs within Indigenous communities can exert epistemic violence against local knowledge systems. It does so through a case study of ICT usage within an Inuit community in the Canadian Arctic. I use a combination of participant observation, archival research, and semi-structured interviews to ask how the introduction of ICTs is transforming knowledge politics that impact Inuit Qaujimaningit (IQ; Inuit knowledge). I find that digital engagement erodes key components of the IQ system, including social practices within Inuit communities, travel outside of the community, and experiential learning while outside of the community. These findings have implications for the study of global digital geographies, applied research within the area of ICT for development, and Indigenous engagements with emerging technologies

Digital divide · Experiential knowledge · Experiential learning · Indigenous · Information and Communications Technology · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · Geographic Information Systems Studies · ICT in Developing Communities · Social Media and Politics