Feminist technopolitics: digital resistance, data justice, and technological sovereignty in Latin America

Abstract

This article aims to critically analyze, from a decolonial, anti-racist, and feminist perspective, how digital technologies and AI deepen, perpetuate, and amplify these inequalities and oppressions in the context of digital capitalism, especially in Latin America. We explore the evolution of feminist studies, which are currently oriented toward a systemic questioning of digitalization. Thus, we analyze how Artificial Intelligence (AI), in its dependence on data, perpetuates biases such as algorithmic racism and is based on practices of digital extractivism. In contrast, we highlight proposals such as data feminism, which works for the development of non-discriminatory algorithms and algorithmic justice in the face of surveillance and massive data appropriation. Finally, we map strategies of resistance and alternatives in the search for data justice and the development of free and community infrastructures, initiatives that shape counter-hegemonic models and technological sovereignty from the Global South.