UTDialogical SpacesEventsDialogue 4: 'Reflections on, and Experiences of, Data Decolonization'

Dialogue 4: 'Reflections on, and Experiences of, Data Decolonization' Dr. Paola Ricaurte Quijano

The series called “Dialogical spaces for a diverse university” aims to make the UTcommunity reflect critically on structural issues affecting diversity and inclusion in our research, education and practices. During eight online sessions, we will discuss topics such as inclusive education and critical pedagogies, de-colonizing the curriculum, shaping universities for gender diversity, and discussions around race and technology in research. Cross-cutting these themes, we will continuously ask: What are we doing in our day-to-day academic practices, which is not, directly or indirectly, promoting diversity and inclusion behaviors, actions, and dynamics? And, what can we do, at both individual and institutional levels, to address this?

In this fourth session, Dr. Paola Ricaurte Quijano will join us as our main guest. 

Event title| Feminist techno-resistances against the coloniality of data and technology: towards dignified and techno-diverse futures

Abstract 

Based on a broadening of the decolonial framework, we will address how the coloniality of power operates through data and technologies and how feminist techno-resistances are forms of epistemic disobedience against dominant socio-technical systems. We think of techno-resistances as the set of strategies deployed by dissident subjectivities to resist data extraction, technological mediations, and algorithmic truths. Resistance practices are simultaneously a praxis of re-existence; that is, they seek to enable other ways of existing in the world.

Bio

Paola Ricaurte is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She was an Edmundo O'Gorman Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University (2018). She is co-founder (with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejías) of Tierra Común a network to promote reflection on data colonialism from the global south. She is a member of the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms, and F<Ai>R, Feminist Artificial Intelligence Research Network. Her work focuses on the critical study of digital technologies from a decolonial and feminist perspective.

Dialogue 4: 'Reflections on, and Experiences of, Data Decolonization' Dr. Paola Ricaurte Quijano
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