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Digital Financial Colonialism?
Digital finance is widely promoted as a pathway to financial inclusion, economic empowerment, and development across the Global South. This paper challenges such narratives by arguing that fintech-led inclusion has generated a new form of structural dependency best described as Digital Financial Colonialism.
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Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Revolutionary Industry and Digital Colonialism
Copyright-based industries have become revolutionary. That is, the machinery of production of digital wares has itself taken on the role of the revolutionary class within the political economy of digital production. The progress of capitalist production in this industry has undermined the conditions of its own possibility, not because it has driven the
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Digital Data Management as Indigenous Resurgence in Kahnawà:ke
Indigenous peoples are addressing the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism through a variety of expressions of community resurgence. Among these initiatives are those leveraging digital technologies.
Rob McMahon, Tim LaHache, Tim Whiteduck
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Care‐Based Disruption, Creative Practice and Collaborative Empathetic Histories
Abstract This Forum essay examines the value of collaboration when creatively engaging with history as a means of developing empathy, care, and understanding. Creative and collaborative histories provide space to address the harmful misconceptions and preconceptions entangled in capitalist and colonial narratives.
SIERRA MCKINNEY, KATHERINE COOK
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This paper explores a new perspective on the relationship between human intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI), challenging the traditional dualistic and competitive view.
Ranieri Maria, Biagini Gabriele
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Decolonising Data in the Age of Data Colonialism: An Interview with Professor Nick Couldry
In May 2024, the Faculty of Communication at Üsküdar University hosted the 11th International Communication Symposium, which this year has been delineated on the overarching theme ‘Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism’.
Maria Pia Ester CRISTALDI
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Informatic Labor in the Age of Computational Capital
Jonathan Beller expands conversations about the role of the digital and the digital humanities through attention to the mechanisms by which the digital image is instrumental in neoliberal capitalist accumulation and colonialism.
Jonathan Beller
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