Dear colleagues,
I'm delighted to announce the forthcoming book Digital Solidarity Economy in Latin America
(Bristol University Press, October 2026), edited by me, Alessio Bertolini and Maria Belen Albornoz.
This book proposes the concept of the digital solidarity economy as a theoretical and political framework for understanding the experiences of workers and communities seeking to govern technologies from below in Latin America. Emerging from a workshop held
in Quito, Ecuador, in 2023, which brought together collectives, cooperatives, policymakers, and scholars from across the region, the volume recovers the long history of Latin American struggles around the solidarity economy and alternative technologies, from
CyberSyn in Chile to national informatics plans in the 1970s and 1980s, to the free software movements, arguing that contemporary collectives across the region are updating this tradition by building initiatives of digital solidarity economies. Through case
studies and comparative analyses spanning multiple countries and sectors, the book articulates movements that do not always walk together: feminist economies, decolonial responses to digital colonialism, digital commons, platform cooperativism, and struggles
for tech sovereignty, offering a reimagination of digital presents and futures rooted in the needs and values of Latin American people.
Foreword by Nick Couldry. With chapters by Livia Ascava, Adam Badger, Alexandre Costa Barbosa, Julieta Grasas, Alexandra Belén Gualavisí, Hugo Jácome Estrella, Denise Kasparian, Eduardo Meneses, Cecilia Muñoz Cancela, Aline Os, Marcella Pazan, Lucy Pei, Julián
Rebón, Daniel Santini, Jonas Valente, Betiana Vargas, Daniel Vizuete, among others.
More soon!
best,
Rafael