Computer networks are inherently social networks, linking people, organizations, and knowledge. They are social institutions that should not be studied in isolation but as integrated into everyday lives. The proliferation of computer networks has facilitated a deemphasis on group solidarities at work and in the community and afforded a turn to networked societies that are loosely bounded and sp...

Extensive labour subcontracting has decimated workers’ incomes and unions’ power on Zambia’s Copperbelt. In response, miners workers with permanent contracts provide each other daily material support, unions sell credit-based services to members, enabling their lives subsidising subcontractors’ unionisation. These interactions make low-wage resource extraction viable. They can therefore be unde...

Complicities and complexities in racialization simultaneously create possibilities foreclose opportunities for cross-racial solidarities. In this auto-ethnographic paper, we share our learning theorizing of Brown-Black solidarities since filmed a webinar titled, “Brown Complicity White Supremacy: Towards Solidarity Black Lives” (SultyDee, 2020), one several efforts towards Brown (South Asian)-B...