Hanchey is a brilliant storyteller, who leaves no theoretical or political stone unturned as she continually interrogates the relationships between selves and others in a complex contact zone. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, University of Bayreuth “A true work of unlearning for relearning! Erudite, lucid, profound, and successfully shakes the foundations of Western messianism.” - Sabelo J. After things fall apart, Hanchey posits, the creation of decolonial futures depends on the labor required to imagine impossible futures into being. Hanchey shows how, through ruination, privileged subjects come to critical awareness through repeated encounters with their own complicity, providing an opportunity to delink from and oppose epistemologies of coloniality. She argues that Western institutional and mental structures must be allowed to fall apart to make possible the emergence of decolonial justice. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Tanzania at an internationally funded NGO as it underwent dissolution, Hanchey traces the conflicts between local leadership and Western paternalism as well as the unstable subjectivity of Western volunteers-including the author-who are unable to withstand the contradictions of playing the dual roles of decolonializing ally and white savior. Hanchey examines the decolonial potential emerging from processes of ruination and collapse. Get a 30% discount with the code E23HNCHY! Now available for pre-order from Duke University Press. The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO "8 books on technology you should read in 2020". CITAMS | Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology. ^ "Ruha Benjamin: 'We definitely can't wait for Silicon Valley to become more diverse' ".^ "Ruha Benjamin | Department of African American Studies".^ a b "The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize".^ a b "The Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities' Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award (for Anti-Racist Scholarship)".^ Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.It was also selected by Fast Company as one of “8 Books on Technology You Should Read in 2020.” References Race After Technology won the 2020 Oliver Cox Cromwell Book Prize awarded by the American Sociological Association Section on Race & Ethnic Relations, 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Award for Nonfiction, and Honorable Mention for the 2020 Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Book Award. As exacting a worldview as that is, it is also inclusive and hopeful.” Reception But each time she pries open a black box, linking the present to some horrific past, the future feels more open-ended, more mutable…This is perhaps Benjamin’s greatest feat in the book: Her inventive and wide-ranging analyses remind us that as much as we try to purge ourselves from our tools and view them as external to our flaws, they are always extensions of us. The field Benjamin maps is treacherous and phantasmic, full of obstacles and trip wires whose strength lies in their invisibility. “What’s ultimately distinctive about Race After Technology is that its withering critiques of the present are so galvanizing. In it, Benjamin develops her concept of the "New Jim Code," which references Michelle Alexander's work The New Jim Crow, to analyze how seemingly "neutral" algorithms and applications can replicate or worsen racial bias. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code was published by Polity in 2019. The primary focus of her work is the relationship between innovation and equity, particularly focusing on the intersection of race, justice and technology. Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. It won the 2020 Oliver Cox Cromwell Book Prize, 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Award for Nonfiction, and Honorable Mention for the 2020 Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Book Award, and has been widely reviewed.ĭr. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code is a 2019 American book focusing on a range of ways in which social hierarchies, particularly racism, are embedded in the logical layer of internet-based technologies. 2019 non-fiction book by Ruha Benjamin Race After Technology
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