[Commlist] new book: COVID-19 from the Margins

We are thrilled to announce the publication of the edited volume 
"COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and 
Resistance in the Datafied Society”!

This book is a true labor of love, featuring 75 authors writing in 5 
languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Italian), in 282 
pages that amplify the silenced voices of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like 
the editors, several of the authors are IAMCR members! :-)  See the 
blurb and the authors' list at the bottom of this message.

We are particularly proud because the book is **open access**

The .pdf and .epub versions can be downloaded from 
https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/covid-19-from-the-margins-pandemic-invisibilities-policies-and-resistance-in-the-datafied-society/ 
<https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/covid-19-from-the-margins-pandemic-invisibilities-policies-and-resistance-in-the-datafied-society/>. 


You can use the same link to order a printed copy for free (while 
supplies last... after which the book will be available print-on-demand).


Do not forget to follow the project on Twitter (@BigDataSur) and to 
regularly check the blog where the conversation continues (we also 
welcome your contributions in your preferred language): 
https://data-activism.net/blog-covid-19-from-the-margins/


BLURB
"COVID-19 from the Margins" is a multilingual conversation that 
celebrates linguistic and cultural diversity but also de-centers 
dominant ways of being and knowing while contributing a decolonial 
approach to the narration of the COVID-19 crisis. It brings researchers, 
activists, practitioners, and communities on the ground into dialogue to 
offer timely, critical reflections in near-real time and in an 
accessible language. The result is a heterogeneous, polycentric and 
pluriversal narration, which invites the reader to enact and experience 
the “Big data from the South(s)” approach as an interpretive lens to 
read the pandemic.

‘COVID-19 from the Margins caringly and thoughtfully demonstrates why 
the multiplicity we call “the poor” is more than ever at the receiving 
end of the worst effects of globalized, patriarchal/colonial racist 
capitalism. But they are not passive victims, for their everyday forms 
of activism and re-existence, including their daily tweaking of the 
digital for purposes of community, care, and survival, has incredible 
insights about design and digital justice that this book takes to heart 
as we strive to undo the lethal effects of “the first pandemic of the 
datafied society”,’ wrote anthropologist Arturo Escobar (University of 
North Carolina, Chapel Hill & Universidad de Caldas, Manizales) 
commenting on the book.

Authors include: Claudio Agosti, Thomas Aureliani, Anat Ben-David, Anna 
Berti Suman, Luiza Bialasiewicz, Nic Bidwell, Tiziano Bonini, Jelke 
Bosma, Olga Bronnikova, Diego Cerna Aragón, Herkulaas MVE Combrink, 
Donna Cormack, Arianna Cortesi, Angela Daly, Soumyo Das, Françoise 
Daucé, Philip Di Salvo, Alexandra Elliott, Ksenia Ermoshina, Marta 
Espuny Contreras, Maria Faust, Nicolas Foster, Peter Füssy, Larissa 
Galdino de Magalhães Santos, Alex Gekker, Ana Maria R. Gomes, Simone 
Gomes, Ana Guerra, Arne Hintz, Hossein Kermani, Shyam Krishna, Tahu 
Kukutai, Justin Lau, Yoren Lausberg, Joan López, Sol Luca de Tena, 
Claudia Magnani, Vukosi Marivate, José Otávio A. L. Martins, Silvia 
Masiero, Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Kinoko Merini, Stefania Milan, 
Eva Mos, Oarabile Mudongo, Francesca Musiani, Elaine Nsoesie, Adriaan 
Odendaal, Irene Ortiz, Bella Ostromooukhova, Erinne Paisley, Annalisa 
Pelizza, Marie-Cathering Petersmann, Julián Cordoba Pivotto, Irene 
Poetranto, Preeti Raghunath, Massimo Ragnedda, Ricardo H. D. Rohm, 
Roberto Romero, Maria Laura Ruiu, Javier Sánchez Monedero, Maria Soledad 
Segura, Paula C.P. Silva, Raquel Tarullo, Niels ten Oever, Emiliano 
Treré, Niels van Doorn, Teresa Villaseñor, Silvio Waisbord, Anna 
Zaytseva, Karla Zavala Barreda, Iran Zhao, Nicolo Zingales.



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