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P082


The coloniality and racial economy of digital capitalism 
Convenors:
Norma Möllers (Queen's University)
Pinar Tuzcu (Queen's University)
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Format:
Traditional Open Panel
Location:
NU-5A47
Sessions:
Friday 19 July, -, -
Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam

Short Abstract:

This panel invites papers that discuss the roles of racism in frameworks of the coloniality and racial economy of digital capitalism. By bringing together empirical and conceptual accounts, we wish to contribute to clarifying the relationships between digital colonialism and digital capitalism.

Long Abstract:

This panel invites papers that discuss the roles of racism in emerging frameworks of the coloniality and racial economy of digital capitalism. Emerging debates on the coloniality of data and the digital have been useful to capture the extractivist logic and uneven fallout of digital capitalism. However, whereas racism played an outsized role in historical colonialism for organizing what populations and lands could be deemed exploitable and expendable, the roles of racism(s) in contemporary accounts of digital capitalism’s colonial character are less clear. In a similar vein, accounts of digital capitalism have not paid much attention to racial capitalism as an organizing framework. We are interested in bringing together accounts of how racism shapes the extractivist logic and uneven fallout of digital capitalism, including but not limited to:

- the racial economy of digital supply chains and infrastructures

- the dispossession of Indigenous communities in the context of mineral mining

- the environmental racism related to resource consumption for information infrastructures and machine learning

- the exploitation of data labor and resources from the Global South

- bordering technologies and the economy of the border

- the silencing of subaltern knowledges

- data colonialism in settler colonial contexts

- organizing and resistance based in anti-colonial and racial justice frameworks

By bringing together empirical and theoretical accounts of the role of racism for digital capitalism, we wish to contribute to clarifying how racism organizes digital capitalism, how analyses of racism are used to understand the extractive logics of digital capitalism, as well as clarify the relationships between digital colonialism and digital capitalism.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 19 July, 2024, -
Session 2 Friday 19 July, 2024, -