[Commlist] New book: Hacking Diversity

New from Princeton University Press: Hacking Diversity: The Politics of 
Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures by Christina Dunbar-Hester. A 
firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and 
hackerspace communities. Enter discount code LIST30 on the PUP website 
to get 30% off the paperback, through June 30, 2020.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691192888/hacking-diversity

"Hacking Diversity takes us into the hackerspaces, makerspaces, and 
unconferences where diversity advocates hack their social order to open 
up volunteer technologies along multiple dimensions. Dunbar-Hester shows 
that much more than 'stuff' is produced—issues of gender, race, power, 
and class emerge and are interrogated. This is essential reading for 
anyone wanting to understand how diversity becomes productive in open 
technology movements and corporate tech cultures." - Sareeta Amrute, 
University of Washington

"This book provides a clear-eyed critical exploration of diversity 
advocacy within today's market-saturated culture of open technology, 
fractured by the sediments of racial capitalism. Dunbar-Hester 
brilliantly combines historical analysis with ethnographic insights to 
show why DIY interventions by voluntaristic open technologists and 
computing devotees, however well-meaning, struggle to resolve the 
foundational tensions between individual freedom and collective 
emancipation." - Paula Chakravartty, New York University

"Written with grace, clarity, and generosity, Hacking Diversity 
critically probes inclusion initiatives in open content and hacker 
communities. Giving credit where it is due, Dunbar-Hester shows how 
diversity advocacy engendered laudable changes that nevertheless have 
fallen short of securing substantive equity and justice. This widely 
relevant book will become central to reorienting the public debate 
around diversity in technology." - Gabriella Coleman, McGill University

"Unraveling threads of identity, open technology, and activism over the 
past decade, Hacking Diversity sympathetically but critically analyzes 
the daily life, utopian desires, and critical awareness of participants 
in hackerspaces, free software communities, maker movements, and 
activist tech collectives. Dunbar-Hester reveals the poignant tensions 
at work in communities struggling to address problems of global 
political inequality with new technologies and practices that promise 
liberation—but all too rarely deliver it." - Christopher M. Kelty, 
University of California, Los Angeles

"Well-written, sophisticated, theoretically limber, and often clever and 
humorous, Hacking Diversity unpacks the concept of diversity advocacy 
and how to create, nurture, and sustain feminist hacker/maker spaces. It 
will make an impact in feminist media studies, critical communication 
studies, digital activism studies, and science and technology studies." 
- Leslie Regan Shade, University of Toronto

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