#TechofPower: Memory | Praxis and Resistance
BORDERLINES ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF A NEW COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH THE TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER PROJECT AND THE JOINT PUBLICATION OF A NUMBER OF SHORT VIDEO LECTURES FROM THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE. THE FOURTH LECTURE SERIES TITLED ‘MEMORY: PRAXIS AND RESISTANCE’ FEATURES THREE TALKS BY SARAH HAMID, EMRAN FEROZ, AND MAJD AL-SHIHABI.
This week’s Technologies of Power: Tracing Empire at Home and Abroad lecture series features a discussion around memory’s role in resistance.
From imperial projects that devastated entire regions in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to the domestic expansion of explicit white supremacy, surveillance, and policing, US technologies of power have generated a multidirectional and dialectical relationship between foreign wars and domestic issues.
Funded by the Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant at Columbia University, Technologies of Power will encourage intersectional conversations on race, empire, technologies, and policing that break the boundaries between ‘foreign’ and ‘domestic,’ ‘abroad’ and ‘home,’ ‘technology’ and ‘power.’
7 conversations. 21 scholars, writers, and activists.
Sarah Hamid is an abolitionist and organizer working in the Pacific Northwest. She leads the policing technology campaign at the Carceral Tech Resistance Network, an archiving and knowledge sharing network for organizers building community defense against the design, roll-out, and experimentation of carceral technologies. Sarah co-founded the inside/outside research collaboration, the Prison Tech Research Group, and sits on the board of CAIR Oregon, the Oregon chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. In 2020, she helped create the #8toAbolition campaign: a police and prison abolition resource built during last summer’s uprisings.
Emran Feroz is an Austrian-Afghan journalist and author who has been focusing on the US-led War on Terror, and especially the American drone program, for almost ten years. His work has appeared in a range of publications, such as Foreign Policy, The Intercept, The New York Times, The Atlantic or Der Spiegel. In 2017, Feroz published an investigative book about US drone warfare in Afghanistan and in other countries with Frankfurt-based Westend publisher. He is also the founder of "Drone Memorial," a virtual memorial for civilian drone strike victims.
Majd al-Shihabi is a technologist and urban planner, who is interested in knowledge production outside of large institutions. He uses open methodologies and technologies to help alternative archives manage, publish, and activate their collections. His most recent project in collaboration with Visualizing Palestine is Palestine Open Maps, a project to "open source" historical colonial maps of Palestine from the British Mandate period. Al-Shihabi was also the inaugural fellow of the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship.
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