[Commlist] New book: Critical Political Economy and Southern Approaches to AI: A Dialogue

Preeti Raghunath happy to share the new edited collection Critical 
Political Economy and Southern Approaches to AI: A Dialogue 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-14090-6>, published a 
week ago with Palgrave Macmillan.

*_About the book: _*This book presents a dialogue between two seemingly 
incompatible bodies of social theories - Critical Political Economy and 
Southern approaches - to the study of artificial intelligence (AI) 
technologies. In doing so, the book presents scholarly engagement with 
the ways in which AI is being experienced in sites in the Global South, 
with authors exploring questions of sociality, further entrenching of 
inequities along labour and caste lines, socio-legal ramifications of 
digital IDs, and undesired outcomes such as deepfakes and their 
integration in the political ecosystem, among others. These perspectives 
interrogate and provide scholarly vocabulary to understand the various 
applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in our professional, legal 
and media spaces.

*Table of contents *

1. Conversing Across Incommensurables?: Critical Political Economy and 
Southern Approaches to Artificial Intelligence
Preeti Raghunath

2. Data, Anthropology and the Surplus Value of Sociality
Deepak Prince

3. The Plight of Female Gig Workers in Indonesia
Suci Lestari Yuana

4. A Critical Political Economy of Campaign Deepfakes in Indian Elections
Sananda Sahoo

5. The Brazilian State and Human Rights: Citizen Identification and 
Informational Separation of Powers
Gabrielle Bezerra Sales Sarlet, Lucas Reckziegel Weschenfelder

6. Caste Bias in Indian Prison Datasets: A Data Feminism Study on Kaggle.com
Nishanshi Shukla

7. Epilogue: From Frontier Technologies to Frontier Lives
Preeti Raghunath



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