Digital Unsettling - Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media

How digital networks are positioned within the enduring structures of coloniality
The revolutionary aspirations that fueled decolonization circulated on paper-as pamphlets, leaflets, handbills, and brochures. Now-as evidenced by movements from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter-revolutions, protests, and political dissidence are profoundly shaped by information circulating through digital networks.
Digital Unsettling is a critical exploration of digitalization that puts contemporary -decolonizing- movements into conversation with theorizations of digital communication. Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan interrogate the forms, forces, and processes that have reinforced neocolonial relations within contemporary digital environments, at a time when digital networks-and the agendas and actions they proffer-have unsettled entrenched hierarchies in unforeseen ways.
Digital Unsettling examines events-the toppling of statues in the UK, the