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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 28

Recognising this dynamic is not simply a matter of critique but of responsibility. To leave these inequalities unchallenged is to accept the reproduction of colonial hierarchies in twenty-first century form

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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 28

The prominence of European languages such as English, French, and Spanish on these platforms epitomise linguistic privilege while widely spoken languages like Hindi and Bengali remain critically underrepresented.

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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 28

Platforms such as Wikipedia and Google Maps, while ostensibly offering universal coverage, frequently reveal stark imbalances shaped by historical, economic, and linguistic hegemonies.

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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 28

The same processes that filter and structure urban experience also operate at the global level, determining how entire regions are represented.

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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 28

The digital city, in this sense, becomes a reimagined terrain and not merely a representation of physical space, where perception, mobility, and social interaction are being continuously reorganised by data-driven infrastructures.

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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 28

These platforms mediate our relationship to the city by filtering what we see, prioritising certain routes or locations, and embedding commercial logics into spatial experience.

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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 28

If you have a fast phone, available data, and stable IDs and addresses, you glide through. If you don’t, you’re pushed into longer lines, higher fees, or locked out entirely.

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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 28

Connectivity becomes a privilege rather than a right, and entire populations are rendered peripheral, pushed to the edges of a digital order that determines who is seen, who is heard, and who is forgotten.

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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 28

The flow of data becomes inseparable from the flow of life in urban geographies, producing a hybrid space where the material and the digital constantly interact.

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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 28

Technology itself is not neutral. Constructed on datasets carrying the weight of human prejudice, racism, colonial hierarchies, gender bias, and structural inequalities embed themselves into everyday spaces.

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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 28

Within today's digital sphere, intangible borders create divisions, replicating and often amplifying, real-world inequalities, hierarchies, and discriminatory practices.

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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 28

How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era

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How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era | Political Pandora

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed how we see and use spaces. Today, it’s no longer abstract or just about the physical, but the layers of information that exist on top of our geographies...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 27

Palestinians continue to plant trees even though they know these will be bulldozed, razed, sprayed or simply cut down too — using cultivation as a way to refuse to die.

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Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza | Political Pandora

Palestine has been the political moment for the last two years. As we approach the second anniversary of the most recent iteration of warfare on Palestine (that’s 730 days of ceaseless colonial violen...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 27

The systemic remapping is made clear as day: the occupation uses the vegetation to legislate ecocide and turn Gaza into its own petri dish so that “the Strip itself becomes an enclosure, a living laboratory of containment.”

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Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza | Political Pandora

Palestine has been the political moment for the last two years. As we approach the second anniversary of the most recent iteration of warfare on Palestine (that’s 730 days of ceaseless colonial violen...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 27

The cultural, economic, and nutritional significance these plants and animals have to Gazans signify how the genocide is evidently a conservation catastrophe.

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Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza | Political Pandora

Palestine has been the political moment for the last two years. As we approach the second anniversary of the most recent iteration of warfare on Palestine (that’s 730 days of ceaseless colonial violen...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 27

Palestine is rich in flora affected by height restrictions. Plants are not just necessary for humans but they also serve as homes and food for countless species of animals.

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Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza | Political Pandora

Palestine has been the political moment for the last two years. As we approach the second anniversary of the most recent iteration of warfare on Palestine (that’s 730 days of ceaseless colonial violen...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 27

Extraction and resource capture, destruction and depopulation of land, waste and contamination, and manufactured cultural and economic dependency are all pillars of colonial violence.

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Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza | Political Pandora

Palestine has been the political moment for the last two years. As we approach the second anniversary of the most recent iteration of warfare on Palestine (that’s 730 days of ceaseless colonial violen...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 27

Explosive devices have left more than 39 millions tons of debris on the streets of Gaza. Waste has been weaponised, too.

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Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza | Political Pandora

Palestine has been the political moment for the last two years. As we approach the second anniversary of the most recent iteration of warfare on Palestine (that’s 730 days of ceaseless colonial violen...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 27

According to the UN, 96% of water from Gaza’s sole aquifer is unfit for consumption and all five wastewater treatment plants have been shut down.

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Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza | Political Pandora

Palestine has been the political moment for the last two years. As we approach the second anniversary of the most recent iteration of warfare on Palestine (that’s 730 days of ceaseless colonial violen...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 27

The destruction of the natural and lived environment in Gaza is not a result of war; it is a strategy for genocide.

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Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza | Political Pandora

Palestine has been the political moment for the last two years. As we approach the second anniversary of the most recent iteration of warfare on Palestine (that’s 730 days of ceaseless colonial violen...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 27

Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza

A Thread 🧵

✍️ Tatenda Dlali

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Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza | Political Pandora

Palestine has been the political moment for the last two years. As we approach the second anniversary of the most recent iteration of warfare on Palestine (that’s 730 days of ceaseless colonial violen...

www.politicalpandora.com

Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 25

Streaming, fundamentally, doesn’t give creative teams enough time to actually make the kinds of episode-to-episode changes that used to be possible. It’s not profitable in the short term.

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Wednesday, Discovery, and the Problems of Recalibrating in the Streaming Era | Political Pandora

Discovery, meanwhile, came out in the streaming era, where that kind of evolution just doesn’t happen. If anything, the opposite happened: on a surface-level, you’d be forgiven for thinking the show w...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 25

Netflix has been experiencing a total artistic collapse for a while now, and it’s hard to imagine a literal collapse is too far behind; we all know what they say about ventures that are too big to fail.

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Wednesday, Discovery, and the Problems of Recalibrating in the Streaming Era | Political Pandora

Discovery, meanwhile, came out in the streaming era, where that kind of evolution just doesn’t happen. If anything, the opposite happened: on a surface-level, you’d be forgiven for thinking the show w...

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 24

Law will never have the full script. Inspiration can never be legislated, and equally, taste can never be dictated. The law can, however, provide the framework for credit.

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Lights, Camera, Culture: Examining the Laws of Global Storytelling | Political Pandora

What happens when stories made for everyone fail the people they purport to represent?

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Political Pandora @politicalpandora.com · Sep 24

This is why a monolithic solution cannot be sought that applies to all countries. Soft law is a better solution. Instruments, such as international advisory bodies, a certification system, or a due diligence framework, provide a way forward.

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Lights, Camera, Culture: Examining the Laws of Global Storytelling | Political Pandora

What happens when stories made for everyone fail the people they purport to represent?

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