Decolonial and Postcolonial Computing Research: A Scientometric Exploration

Das, Dipto; Semaan, Bryan

doi:10.1145/3500868.3559468

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“…In postcolonial and decolonial computing research, we build on extensive work that highlights the subtle ways in which colonial legacies direct the transnational encounters and exchange of resources, expertise, and capital [4,8,9,15,22,25]. This is evident in how the ideologies of optimism and solutionism have normalized the thinking that social issues such as abject poverty, social inequality and environmental injustice can be reduced to objects of design to be codified, predicted, and modelled [2].…”

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"\"Remembering” as a Decolonial Praxis in African HCI and Design"

Adamu,

Nkwo

2023

Proceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference

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The fourth wave of HCI sought to engage with the ethics, politics, and values of design as an engine of modernity/coloniality. In doing so, we've witnessed a series of critiques and reflections on how the broadening of context and application in the third wave does not equate to any substantial structural changes in the ontologies and epistemologies informing HCI research and design. This can be attributed to the inevitable chaos of multiplicity inherent in HCI -and issues that we reckon could further implicate the efforts towards politicizing design as applied in the context of Africa. In this conceptual paper, we take the politics of design to another level by integrating distinct religious and sociopolitical practices across Africa in showing the colonizing dimension of the entirety of modern design enterprise. We argue that remembering the onomatopoeic dynamic of Amun-RA and the Ekumeku -both as theological thoughts and political praxis that are situated in African traditions -could provide a powerful instrument for 'asking questions' and 'forming conversation' on how technology can be developed and evaluated in/from African communities. Building on this year's theme of 'beyond limit', this study showcases how decolonizing African design entails, on an abstract level, a decolonisation of the imagination. To go beyond colonially imposed limits in computing research and design, we ought to remember our histories and cultures clearly, there is a designerly power in remembering.

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