Digital financialization and surveillance capitalism in the Global South: The new technologies of empire

Abstract

This essay describes a hybrid form of contemporary colonization that involves the fusion of digital and financial realms to explore new frontiers in profit generation, governance, and control. While early research has explored this dual mode of financialization and surveillance capitalism, it primarily employs Western frameworks assuming a universalism that does not account for the coerced lived experiences of the digitally colonized across the Global South. Organization, with its commitment to providing critical epistemic space to non-Western subjectivities, should lead this quest by shining a light on the colonization of everyday spaces in the Global South, with the new technologies of empire.