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Feminist Technologies, Infrastructures and Networks: Potency in The Process of Breaking with The Colonial and Androcentric Legacy

Abstract

Autonomy, language and security are the three fundamental categories that reveal the notion of feminist technology that has been built in feminist movements in Latin America in this article. The different senses mobilized in these categories are observed from the performance of Latin American collectives of women, trans and non-binary people focused on the production and use of information and communication technologies, autonomous networks and infrastructures. In this scenario, feminist technology is a perspective built by these movements in their engagement in a technopolitical debate at the interface with knowledge regarding internet, autonomy, digital infrastructures, and information security for activists. Based on recent research developed by the authors, this article presents and analyzes the constitution of this perspective and its contribution to the construction of alliances with technologies and sociotechnical networks that diverges from the colonial and androcentric legacy.

Feminist Technology; Feminist Infrastructure; Autonomous and Community Networks; Digital Security; Internet

Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero - Pagu Universidade Estadual de Campinas, PAGU Cidade Universitária "Zeferino Vaz", Rua Cora Coralina, 100, 13083-896, Campinas - São Paulo - Brasil, Tel.: (55 19) 3521 7873, (55 19) 3521 1704 - Campinas - SP - Brazil
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