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Alternatives? From situated knowledges to standpoint epistemology
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Asha Achuthan
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Jul 29, 2009
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The previous post explored, in detail, responses to science and technology in feminist and gender work in India. The idea was, more than anything else, to present an 'attitude' to technology, whether manifested in dams or obstetric technologies, that sees technology as a handmaiden of development, as instrument - good or evil, and as discrete from 'man'. Feminist and gender work in India has thereafter articulated approximately four responses to technology across state and civil society positions - presence, access, inclusion, resistance. The demand for presence of women as agents of technological change, the demand for improved access for women to the fruits of technology, the demand for inclusion of women as a constituency that must be specially provided for by technological amendments, and a need for recognition of technology’s ills particularly for women, and the consequent need for resistance to technology on the same count. Bearing in mind that women’s lived experiences have served as the vantage point for all four of the responses to technology in the Indian context, I will now suggest the need to revisit the idea of such experience itself, and the ways in which it might be made critical, rather than valorizing it as an official counterpoint to scientific knowledge, and by extension to technology. This post, while not addressing the 'technology question' in any direct sense, is an effort to begin that exploration.
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Analysis on the strategies of Mozilla and Wiki communities on gender gap aspects
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Bhuvana Meenakshi
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Oct 03, 2019
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CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge
There is a need for research on how Open Source communities are trying to balance the gender ratio and how they provide the safe space environment to its contributors. With this in mind I have come up with this blog as I am an active contributor of Mozilla since 5 years and also got myself recently introduced to Wikimedia and its sister projects, have interacted with few Indian women contributors in both of these communities and came out with a few observations on how I see them in India and what could be improved in both communities.
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Histories of the Internet
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Nishant Shah
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Sep 17, 2008
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internet and society,
geeks,
digital subjectives,
cyborgs,
cybercultures,
archives,
cyberspaces,
pedagogy,
research,
women and internet,
e-governance
For the first two years, the CIS-RAW Programme shall focus on producing diverse multidisciplinary histories of the internet in India.
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Justice and Difference - the first talk in 'the monster album of feminist stories'
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Asha Achuthan
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Dec 04, 2008
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CIS and 'the monster album of feminist stories', in relation to the Rewiring Bodies project by Asha Achuthan, hosted the first of a series of talks on cognizing feminism at the CIS premises on Cunningham Road on 14th November, 2008.
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of doctors and maps - Snippet one
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Asha Achuthan
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Nov 05, 2008
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The clinic is not what it was. It is highly technologized, flooded with information systems. But what of the relationships it traditionally supported, between patient and doctor?
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of doctors and maps - Snippet two
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Asha Achuthan
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Nov 05, 2008
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This may seem like a careless swipe at the volumes of critique of technology. And yet ... I need to know ...
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Pleasure and Pornography: Impassioned Objects
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Namita A. Malhotra
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May 11, 2009
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Aug 02, 2011 08:35 AM
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Cyberspace,
internet and society,
Obscenity,
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YouTube,
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Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities
In this post, a third in the series documenting her CIS-RAW project, Pleasure and Pornography, Namita Malhotra explores the idea of fetish as examined by Anne McClintock (i) . This detour is an exploration of the notion of fetish, its histories and meanings, and how it might relate to the story of Indian porn.
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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Pleasure and Pornography: Initial Encounters with the Unknown
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Namita A. Malhotra
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Feb 03, 2009
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History
This blog entry is the first in a series by Namita Malhotra on her CIS-RAW project that is about pornography, Internet, sexuality, law, new media and technology. She aims for this to be a multi media and research project/journey which is able to cite and draw on various sources including legal studies, film studies and philosophy, academic and historical work on sexuality, art, film and pornography itself.
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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Pleasure and Pornography: Pornography and the Blindfolded Gaze of the Law
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Namita A. Malhotra
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Apr 02, 2009
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Cybercultures,
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Digital subjectivities,
History
In the legal discourse, pornography as a category is absent, except as an aggravated form of obscenity. Does this missing descriptive category assist in the rampant circulation of pornography, either online or offline? Rather than ask that question, Namita Malhotra, in this second post documenting her CIS-RAW project, explores certain judgments that indeed deal with pornographic texts and uncovers the squeamishness that ensures that pornography as an object keeps disappearing before the law.
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Postcolonial Hybridity and the ‘Terrors of Technology’ Argument
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Asha Achuthan
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Apr 15, 2009
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In the last couple of posts, Asha Achuthan has been building towards an understanding of how the anti-technology arguments in India have been posed, in the nationalist and Marxist positions. She goes on, in this sixth post documenting her project, to look at the arguments put out by the postcolonial school, their appropriation of Marxist terminology, their stances against Marxism in responding to science and technology in general, and the implications of these arguments for other fields of inquiry.
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