"In recent years, critical data studies from the Global South have gained traction, generating debates on power, knowledge production, and the politics of data. While these discussions challenge universalist frameworks, they also risk essentializing the ‘Global South’, requiring a more nuanced approach. This special issue centres Latin America as a site of theoretical, methodological, and empirical inquiry, highlighting its potential to generate new insights into datafication, power, and artificial intelligence. Rather than treating Latin America as a passive recipient of Global North theories, this issue foregrounds its epistemological and methodological contributions to global debates. Engaging with frameworks such as capitalism, coloniality, and dependency theory, the articles explore the region's heterogeneity and intellectual traditions in social sciences, humanities, and science and technology studies. This introduction proposes a research agenda for Latin American critical data studies – one that reflects historical legacies while envisioning possible data futures through interdisciplinary and critical engagement. It interrogates the politics of knowledge production, emphasizing the need for non-extractive, dialogical approaches to studying data in, from, and with Latin America. By centering Latin American scholarship and experiences, this special issue challenges dominant narratives in critical data studies and offers alternative theoretical perspectives that are globally informed yet locally grounded."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517251330160

#LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #CriticalDataStudies #STS #AI #Datafication #Capitalism #Coloniality #DependencyTheory

Architecture is never neutral. In this amazing conversation with architect and curator Mabel O. Wilson, we talk about certain architecture's fundational myths and the unspoken. We talk about whiteness, race, property, land and possesion. We also discuss racial assemblages and infrastructures, as well as colonial archives, silenced histories and reparation.

https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-421-2/

#podcast #coloniality #archives #architecture

I wrote a thing, and if you're interested in #EdTech #TEL or #Education you might want to give it a wee read:

Generative AI: A Problematic Illustration

https://blog.mcchristie.com/generative-ai-a-problematic-illustration/

#AI #Coloniality #CPD #Ethnicity #Gender #Literacy #Race

#Design: Some airbags rupture and spray shards of metal and plastic at motorists.

The scandal involving the Japanese inflator manufacturer Takata, which has since gone bankrupt, has been affecting the automotive industry since 2014. Airbags explode if long-term exposure to high-humidity climates with big differences in daytime and night temperatures, like those found in Nigeria, Florida or Cuba.

'Airbag maker Takata had a “broken safety culture,” poor manufacturing processes and flawed quality control – and also an unhealthy dose of overconfidence': https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wharton-podcast/dasher-macduffie-takata-airbags/

#industry #automotive #safety #cars #transportation #airbags #Takata #Nigeria #Florida #Cuba #coloniality