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Global South Must Reclaim Data Sovereignty: Need For Data Decolonization

Only by asserting ownership over data and algorithms can the South escape serving as the North’s digital underclass. The path ...
The Diplomat

Central Asia Comes Out of the Russian Shadow

In Central Asia, speaking the Russian language used to be a sign of education, high culture, and a marker of the upper class. Its mastery also presented more opportunities in terms of employment. For ...
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MoMA exhibition on building and decolonization in South Asia raises questions about the authentically hopeful architecture of nation-building

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Municipal Stadium, Ahmedabad, India. 1959–1966. Architect: Charles Correa (1930–2015). Engineer: Mahendra Raj (b. 1924). Exterior view. (Randhir Singh/Image courtesy MoMA) The ...
The Diplomat

decolonization in Central Asia

As a generation of Central Asian adoptees enter adulthood in the United States, their personal quests for identity sit side-by-side with discussions of decolonization. The region’s search for language ...