feminist technoresistances

body-territory, popular economies, and community networks

Abstract

This article aims to critically analyze the neo-extractivist political regime through a materialist feminist lens, highlighting its intersections with capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy. It is based on the understanding that contemporary extractivism extends beyond the exploitation of natural resources to encompass the digital sphere through the datafication of life, in a technologically mediated process of dispossession. In this context, the study investigates digital extractivism as an update of colonial practices, explores the concept of body-territory in its digital dimension, and examines community networks as expressions of technological resistance. The research, structured into three sections, seeks to understand how the feminist politicization of technology can overcome the prevailing neoliberal and state-centered logic, proposing alternatives based on autonomy, solidarity, and social justice. Initiatives such as community networks exemplify strategies of technological reappropriation that break away from extractivist and market-driven logics, pointing toward the construction of a decolonized digital environment. Grounded in feminist and popular economies, this study proposes these experiences as technopolitical laboratories of resistance, capable of inspiring new development models that subvert the dominant practices of domination and exploitation inherent to the current global techno-economic regime.