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In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South (Shokooh Valle, 2023)
Firuzeh Shokooh Valle's 2023 Stanford UP ethnography of feminist digital activists in the Global South who contest development discourse on 'women and ICT'; it shows how solidarity and pleasure, and uneasy alliances with funders, shape a 'feminist technological otherwise'. Includes a methods appendix.
Etnografi Firuzeh Shokooh Valle 2023 (Stanford UP) tentang aktivis digital feminis di Global Selatan yang menggugat wacana pembangunan tentang 'perempuan dan TIK'; menunjukkan bagaimana solidaritas, kenikmatan dan aliansi yang canggung dengan donor membentuk 'kemungkinan teknologi feminis yang lain'. Dilengkapi lampiran metode.
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- Date
- 2023
- Creator
- Firuzeh Shokooh Valle
- Publication
- Stanford University Press
- Document type
- book (monograph (sociology, ethnography))
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1999–present
- Access
- Copyrighted publication; personal research copy. Copyrighted: share the file only with invited researchers on Drive.
- Citation (APA)
- Shokooh Valle, F. (2023). In defense of solidarity and pleasure: Feminist technopolitics from the Global South. Stanford University Press.
- File
- 03 Theory and Transnational Feminisms/Technopolitics and Technofeminism/Shokooh Valle (2023) - In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure, Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (PDF text layer) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 03 Theory and Transnational Feminisms › Technopolitics and Technofeminism
- Summary basis
- front matter, contents and introduction
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