Unsettling Knowledge Inequities
The Unsettling Knowledge Inequities podcast features conversations with diverse and multigenerational knowledge holders. Episodes aim to interrogate the politics of knowledge production and circulation and the global power dynamics that shape it - as well as highlight alternative models and collaborations between distinct knowledge traditions.
Podcasting since 2021 • 16 episodes
Unsettling Knowledge Inequities
Latest Episodes
Digital Redlining, Friction-Free Racism and Luxury Surveillance in the Academy
In the final episode of our third season, we are joined by Chris Gilliard, a professor and scholar who is highly regarded for his critiques of surveillance technology, privacy, and the invisible but problematic ways that digital technolog...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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42:48
The Perils of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Publishing
One of the key themes that intersects across all of our episodes this season is the surveillance and highly extractive and harmful economic practices of big corporations in the academic publishing sector, whose artificial intelligence tools are...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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58:19
The High Cost of Knowledge Monopoly
Over the past 20 years, the academic publishing market has undergone changes that have led us to a juncture where power is concentrated in the hands of a handful of big companies.To help us understand how this came to be and its implicat...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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40:09
Data Cartels & Surveillance Publishing
Over the last years, as the process of conducting research and scholarship has moved more and more online, it has become clear that user surveillance and data extraction has crept into academic infrastructure in multiple ways.
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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44:30
AI & Automating Knowledge Inequity
In our third season, we continue our goal of interrogating the politics of knowledge production, exchange and circulation - but with a special focus on exploring the implications of the widespread and often uncritical use of Artificial Intellig...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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47:58
