Associate Professor Elisha Lim has been named guest co-editor of a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Social Text, a publication which explores cultural theory by considering social and cultural phenomena. Lim is a professor in the Department of Humanities where they research topics including social media platforms, critical race theory and more.
This special issue of the journal will look at how modern digital platforms like Amazon or Google reproduce colonial capitalist enterprises from the past and analyze the overlap of social structures and power dynamics in society. Lim invites York University colleagues to submit papers to the journal exploring how present-day technologies have connections to a colonial past.