"In recent years, critical data studies from the Global South have gained traction, generating debates on power, knowledge production, and the politics of data. While these discussions challenge universalist frameworks, they also risk essentializing the ‘Global South’, requiring a more nuanced approach. This special issue centres Latin America as a site of theoretical, methodological, and empirical inquiry, highlighting its potential to generate new insights into datafication, power, and artificial intelligence. Rather than treating Latin America as a passive recipient of Global North theories, this issue foregrounds its epistemological and methodological contributions to global debates. Engaging with frameworks such as capitalism, coloniality, and dependency theory, the articles explore the region's heterogeneity and intellectual traditions in social sciences, humanities, and science and technology studies. This introduction proposes a research agenda for Latin American critical data studies – one that reflects historical legacies while envisioning possible data futures through interdisciplinary and critical engagement. It interrogates the politics of knowledge production, emphasizing the need for non-extractive, dialogical approaches to studying data in, from, and with Latin America. By centering Latin American scholarship and experiences, this special issue challenges dominant narratives in critical data studies and offers alternative theoretical perspectives that are globally informed yet locally grounded."
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#Trump #tarrifs forcing #Pakistan to divert hard earned cash reserves to the american regime.
Naked attempt to pause Pak's exemplary #EnergyTransition, and force us to buy American oil in a deal to have the tarrifs removed.
Why couldn't they offer us solar panels instead? Oh wait.
We have a huge American hangover. Its past time we tried "balancing" between the US and China and rework our policies to reflect a multipolar world.
#EV roll out in #Pakistan is accelerating so fast companies are clashing over distributing rights in the race to the market
Most are #Chinese EVs, but theres a smattering of Korean & Japanese manufacturers collectively bringing tens of models to the country beginning this year
Coupled with the #Solar revolution, seems Pak might beat most of the G20 at green rollout this decade lol
#declassified: how #britain systematically tortured and killed 80000 #Maumau in #Kenia during #BritishColonialRule and denies it to this day.
#GifsArtidote: only when #UKgov is forced by the british people to #educate the truth about its historic conduct, will we achieve change.
#press #news #BreakingNews #BlackMastodon #WhiteSupremacy #GlobalSouth #organise #resist #Decolonise #Colonialism #racism
https://youtu.be/yRaXtH_xfXM?si=0785X4aUS8UJQzf1
In addition, read my article #TheStateWeAreIn
http://gifsartidote.life/2025/01/14/the-state-we-are-in/
Late #Spring in #Pakistan, & the government is already considering shutting schools for an early summer break due to the #heatwave.
Astonishing: the Gov is admitting temperature surges of 4-7C (7-13F) above the current heatwave are to occur in the coming few days.
This is what I kept warning! An avg rise of 1.5C means swings of 5-10C making that happen, and in heatwaves or cold snaps thats deadly!
https://www.dawn.com/news/1903252/schools-in-punjab-mull-early-summer-vacation-if-heat-persists
@ProjectFearlessness #Pakistan replaced anywhere between 20-40% of its energy production with rooftop #solar in 2024 alone.
Its been so rapid, despite entrenched fossil lobbies, the Gov has had to cancel future coal and gas power projects, and renegotiate contracts with current ones to lower their prices or just shutter them
No amount of lobbying or narrative building can beat cold hard science and economics.
#Renewables are the future!
Interview: "What is really striking is not the sheer stupidity of it, but the wanton cruelty of it."
Poorest Countries & Global Working Class Face Worst Impacts of Trump’s Tariffs
The tariffs are especially perilous for small, heavily indebted countries in the Global South, eg, 49% for Cambodia, 37% for Bangladesh and 48% for Laos."
~Jayati Ghosh, U Massachusetts Amherst
PRIMERA LLAMADA A LA CARAVANA MESOAMERICANA POR EL CLIMA Y LA VIDA
A todas las luchas, pueblos y movimientos de Mesoamérica, Abya Yala y el Sur Global:
La crisis climática avanza imparable, y con ella, la devastación de nuestros territorios, nuestras culturas y nuestra vida misma. El despojo, los megaproyectos extractivos y la violencia estructural nos acechan con mayor intensidad cada día. Frente a esta emergencia planetaria, respondemos con unidad, resistencia y esperanza.
Esta Caravana será un espacio de encuentro y movilización para los pueblos y comunidades que luchan por la defensa de la Madre Tierra y los territorios. Uniremos nuestras voces y fuerzas para resistir la violencia, visibilizar la biodiversidad y pluriculturalidad de nuestros pueblos, y denunciar el sistema financiero que perpetúa la destrucción y el despojo.
La caravana partirá desde el Sureste Mexicano, pasando por Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Ecuador y llegará a Belém, Brasil, donde alzaremos nuestra voz en el marco de la Conferencia de la ONU sobre cambio climático (COP30) y en medio de esta Crisis Civilizatoria que amenaza nuestro futuro con un colapso global.
Este llamado es para quienes defendemos la vida, la justicia climática y la dignidad de los pueblos. ¡Es hora de actuar!
¿QUIÉNES PUEDEN SUMARSE AL RECORRIDO?
Hacemos extensa la invitación a Pueblos, Comunidades, Organizaciones, colectiv@s y personas que cuenten con la capacidad de autofinanciar su gasto de movilidad durante el recorrido a sumarse a la Caravana.
Convocamos además a Pueblos, Comunidades, Organizaciones, colectiv@s y Movimiento, a colaborar en las actividades a realizarse en cada punto geográfico y territorio que recorrerá la Caravana.
NECESITAMOS TU APOYO EN TRES COMISIONES CLAVE:
1. Comisión de Comunicación:
La propuesta es dar cobertura, registrar e implementar una estrategia de comunicación eficaz entre los participantes de la caravana, las comunidades locales y los medios, para asegurar que las voces de los pueblos sean escuchadas y sus luchas documentadas de forma justa, así como dar visibilidad a la Caravana y sus demandas a lo largo del recorrido.
Post-Caravana: Coproducir un documental de la Caravana, así como material audiovisual para redes sociales.
2. Comisión de Investigación:
La propuesta es realizar minutas y recopilar información durante el recorrido de la caravana para la elaboración de informes, análisis y materiales que permitan visibilizar la situación en los territorios de Mesoamérica, generar conocimiento colectivo y aportar evidencia para fortalecer las demandas de las luchas territoriales y movimientos sociales.
Post-Caravana: Continuar sistematizando y difundiendo información sobre la crisis climática, los impactos de los megaproyectos extractivos, la violencia y la resistencia de los pueblos.
3. Comisión de Observación:
La propuesta es acompañar el recorrido,presencial y virtualmente,para monitorear las violaciones a derechos humanos que pudieran ocurrir durante el trayecto, asegurando que las comunidades participantes y los miembros de la caravana estén protegidxs y acompañadxs en todo momento, denunciando así mismo cualquier acto de violencia presente y constante en los territorios, así como la represión por parte de las autoridades y de otros actores que afecten nuestras luchas.
Post-caravana: Realizar un informe de las violaciones a derechos humanos encontradas en los territorios transitados.
¡Te invitamos a ser parte de este grito de resistencia global! Juntxs vamos a caminar hacia un futuro donde la vida, el agua, el territorio y la dignidad sean respetados. La lucha por la justicia climática no espera, y cada acción colectiva es un paso más hacia un mundo donde podamos vivir en armonía.
Para más detalles y cómo sumarte a las comisiones, mantente pendiente de la información que compartiremos en las próximas semanas.
Te invitamos a llenar nuestro formulario de preregistro:
https://forms.gle/QM6mJeR1Z7dJzwsJ6
¡Nos vemos en la Caravana Mesoamericana por el Clima y la Vida!
El Sur Global se organiza y resiste. ¡Abajo y a la izquierda!
¡El Sur Resiste en todos los rincones del Sur Global!
¡La lucha en defensa de la tierra es la madre de todas las luchas!
¡La lucha por la vida está en nuestras manos!
No, you don’t want the US to collapse. Too many countries depend on it, and a sudden breakdown would create chaos. If you come from the Global South, you might feel more empathy for those harmed by American foreign policy for several decades. But if the world’s most powerful military and economy slides into dictatorship - or worse - the consequences will hit everyone, especially weaker economies and vulnerable people.
If you want to know why researchers from the #globalsouth are under-represented in scientific conferences, try going through the visa application process as one of them.
@dubh If ure too far for a connection, its physically AND financially more efficient to just produce it
Gov subsidies can be diverted to remote cases for help.
A panel is cheaper than a Km of wiring if I am not wrong. We spend billions on energy subsidies on gas and oil annually.
Just a year of these on solar/wind will be enough
Hard reform does not mean abandon reform
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@dubh We'll need to be very selective in whom to get to the local grid and whom to leave off.
People dont "need" to be on a grid anymore. Stand-alone off-grid installations are reliable enough to provide power. Can have a mosque (every house in #Pakistan has access to one) set up production, and all people need to do is connect a wire to it.
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@dubh The centralized-grid model was designed for the 20th century when cheap power meant huge power plants 100s of miles away.
The renewables era demands decentralized localized grids with energy storage. Especially with one climate disaster after another, its the only way to make supply resilient & cheap.
Mass install panels & batteries, no subsidies needed, safeguard quality of life for everyone
@dubh great link, thanks!
echoes what I think is the only way forward: abandon the grid in its current form. Trying to prop-up an outdated and inefficient grid on the backs of one segment of slightly better off households, and using this as a justification for its continued existence is harmful to everyone's interests.
#Pakistan #SouthAsia #GlobalSouth #Energy #EnergyTransition #Solar #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis
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On social security programmes in #SouthAsia and how #Pakistan 's can be modified to help not oonly poverty alleviation but also #ClimateAdaptation AND #ClimateMitigation
Brilliant insight by climate lawyer Ali Tauqeer Sheikh
Did not know India's and Bangladesh's programmes were so far ahead of the world
https://www.dawn.com/news/1897603/climate-smart-social-protection
Cuba Sends #Doctors, the US Sends #Sanctions
The #UnitedStates calls #Cuba’s medical internationalism "human trafficking" — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the #GlobalSouth.
from #Jacobin
By #HelenYaffe
March 8, 2025
On February 25, #US secretary of state #MarcoRubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s overseas #medical-assistance programs. A #USStateDepartment statement clarified that the sanction extends to “current and former” officials and the “immediate family of such persons.”
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/cuba-medical-programs-us-sanctions
#CubanMedicalInternationalism
#VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#news #press #politics #healthcare #embargo
@cubainfo
Wonderful piece of research on the problems with #fashion industry and the myth of clothes #recycling
#ClimateEmergency
#Sustainability
#Waste
#Colonialism
#GlobalSouth
Trying to solve #climateChaos with #mining on the #globalSouth, is the same effort as this #cat.
Trying to solve #climateChaos with #mining on the #globalSouth, is the same effort as this #cat.
@pluralistic
A theory of change [for the #EU, and the #GlobalSouth]: Ditch #IPlaws and #copyprotection, and set #interoperability free!!
"America's robust GDP figures are a mirage, artificially buoyed up by the monopoly rents extracted by #USBigTech, who prey on Americans AND foreigners.
But foreigners don't have to tolerate this nonsense. Governments around the world signed up to protect giant American companies from small domestic competitors (from local app stores—for phones, games consoles, and IoT gadgets—to local printer cartridge remanufacturers) on the promise of tariff-free access to US markets. With #Trump imposing tariffs will-ye or nill-ye on America's trading partners large and small, there is no reason to go on delivering rents to US Big Tech."