A Feminist Geopolitics of Technology

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ID5831428
AuthorsMargaret Jack (0000-0003-1770-0997, Syracuse University), Seyram Avle (0000-0001-6940-0449, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Year2021
Volume2
Issue1
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2575-7350 • E-ISSN: 2575-7350
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/gp.2021.24398
OpenAlexW3172895598
LanguageEN
Citations received10

This article proposes a feminist geopolitics of technology framework that analyzes the connections between global politics and techno-empires through the lens of feminist scholarship. This framework has three dimensions: (1) grounding in place, (2) attention to everyday surviving and thriving, and (3) community. We draw on two long-term, community-oriented ethnographic research engagements in Cambodia and Ghana to illustrate how this approach might be used. This framework provides a resource for scholars to make sense of the contrasts between dominant narratives and lived experiences, particularly encouraging more sensitive and generative approaches to analyzing the conditions and dimensions of a shifting geopolitics of technology. In writing stories of caring, thriving, and grounded alternatives, we hope to foster and support initiatives that encourage personal agency and living the full human experience amid inequality and structural violence

Geopolitics · Thriving · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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