The digital coloniality of power : epistemic disobedience in the social sciences and the legitimacy of the digital age / Alexander I. Stingl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stingl, Alexander I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital divide.

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 387 pages ; ǂc 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2015.

Summary:

Inspired by the ideas of decolonial scholars, feminist science studies, current biological and neuro-cognitive research, and sociologists capable of reflection and self-criticism, Alexander I. Stingl attempts to 'break' the canvas of sociology and show that adding a third and decolonial dimension to the two-dimensional sociological imagination is indeed possible. He illustrates that it is possible that classrooms, free speech on internet, and the inequalities in the production and distribution of a new form of social capital - digital cultural health care capital - can be subjected to a decolonial perspective along a sociological line of inquiry, if sociologists allow for relations with other disciplines and scholarship to be integrative conversations. The goal of this book is not to offer results or closed arguments but to create, instead, platforms for thinking further, opening new lines of inquiry, and to argue that it is not enough to identify problems or to attempt to solve the problems with politics or best practice solutions. Instead, he proposes, we must learn to identify and make use of the opportunities that are produced by any problem. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: before the decolonial turn to opportunity

What a beautiful crochet reef : decolonial options and the delinking of social sciences as conceptual-empirical laboratories

From class to identity and back again? : a geopolitical question

Danse macabre : the sacred, the rational, and the algorithm

Implifications : biomedical relevance, digital cultural health capital, and governance 3.0

Cyborg gazing patient vitreous : the body as technology, technological object, and techno-normativity

The digital classroom

In plena vita¿before and beyond the curtain call

Notes

Works cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781498501927

1498501923

9781498501941

149850194X

OCLC:

910856109