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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Painel: Technocoloniality: Global Inequalities Within Technological Models And Futures.</b></span></div>
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Call for papers open <b>March 3–April 30, 2026</b></div>
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Submissions to open panels should be presented in the form of abstracts of up to 250 words.</div>
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Notification of Acceptance: <b>May 29, 2026</b></div>
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4S 2026 Conference: <b>October 7-10, 2026</b></div>
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<b>Painel: Technocoloniality: Global Inequalities Within Technological Models And Futures</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Gustavo Ferreira - University of Toronto </span></p>
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Jose Claudio Castanheira - Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Technologies respond to social needs that are not always born or perceived spontaneously, but are often created alongside the technology itself. Every technological innovation
involves adaptation at various levels – cognitive, cultural, in terms of infrastructure, etc. – so that the social body understands its functioning and necessity.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">When understood as systems, technologies present a complexity and pervasiveness capable of affecting various social contexts. However, a minor segment of society defines technological
systems that favour its position of power, as their implementation reinforces or creates new forms of inequality. While technologies are socially constructed, the premise of large universal systems only deepens exclusion and imbalance between people, social
groups, and countries. It is crucial to highlight the contradictory role that certain technologies play: designed, on the one hand, for the benefit of society, yet also generating and normalizing relations of inequality across class, gender, ethnicity, and
age, among others.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As proposed by scholars of the Decolonial Turn, relations of inequality, oppression, and exclusion are a continuation of historical colonialism. The theme of technologies
is increasingly unavoidable in discussions of power, sovereignty, and economic development, so this panel aims to broaden the debate by inviting the inclusion of frequently neglected themes on how peripheral societies negotiate, adhere to, or are forced to
adhere to technological models, as if they were merely part of a “neutral” technical solution. The panel proposes the notion of technocoloniality as a fruitful basis for analyzing and debating the role of technologies on the demands for infrastructure and
their global ecological impact, imaginaries of progress and the future from the periphery, the socio-historical and geopolitical struggles across social groups, the reconfiguration of production chains and the meaning of work, as well as contemporary subjectivity
and sociability. We welcome proposals from communicative, historical, sociological, philosophical, and other perspectives.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><b>Gustavo Ferreira (he/him)</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; color: black;"><br>
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