Algorithmic Governance and Postcoloniality
In this paper, Dr Ashwin Varghese reads algorithmic governance through a postcolonial lens to understand the hierarchies it creates and what algorithmic transformation means for the postcolonial world.
Publication Type: Articles
In Search of a Political Theory of Assembly
Professor Srinivasan’s recently published chapter, in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly that he co-edits, re-centres the place of assembly in political theory.
AI Poses Threats to Education, Ethics and Eureka Moments (2024)
The only way to know if and how to adopt generative AI into our teaching and research is through openly deliberating about its impact on our main values.
Peace and Peacemaking in Sudan and South Sudan (2020)
Opening Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan, this chapter introduces thebook’s key concepts: peace and peacemaking. The contributions in this volume show thatideas of peace…
Publics in Africa in a Digital Age
Across Africa, digital media are providing scholars with a reason and opportunity for revisiting the question, and the analytical lens, of publics with new vigour and less normative…
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID-19 and Digital Techno-opportunism across Africa (2022)
In Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, digital tech solutions mostly failed, yet they nevertheless unleashed new logics of governance and capital accumulation by states and corporations.
Witnessing: Iteration and Social Change (2022)
Thinking of digital witnessing as iteration, or collaborative communication for change, allows us to see how power inflects who and what are— and are not— witnessed.
Towards a Terrestrial Internet: re-imagining digital networks from the ground up (2022)
The expansion of digital infrastructure is having material and concrete impacts on society and the environment. This phenomenon is rendering obsolete binary distinctions between the “physical” and the “virtual”…
Addressing Ethical Gaps in ‘Technology for Good’: Foregrounding Care and Capabilities
This paper identifies persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.
When friction becomes the norm: Antagonism, discourse and planetary data turbulence (2022)
The ideal of unfettered data circulation has fallen into crisis.
Territories of data: ontological divergences in the growth of data infrastructure (2022)
The construction of observatories in the Atacama Desert has prompted actors in Chile to envision initiatives for promoting the expansion of data infrastructure.
Lockdowns, Lives and Livelihoods: COVID-19, Public Health and Conflict Affected Populations (2021)
A novel remote qualitative research tool, Katikati, is used to engage with conflict-affected communities in Somalia on their experiences of a COVID-19 lockdown to help shape pandemic response.