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Lucía Fernanda Mesa Vélez

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About me

As a Doctoral Candidate at the GCSC, Lucía is researching the epistemological, material and ethic impacts, implications and possibilities of using artificial intelligence to address social issues (commonly referred to as "AI for Good" or "AI for Development") and how organizations, communities or individuals that self-identify as feminist and decolonial operate within that framework. She adopts a decolonial feminist theories-praxis perspective. She has a background in Political Science and Cultural Studies from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and a Masters in Postcolonial Studies from Goldsmiths University of London, UK. By studying two AI interventions in the Majority World, her work examines how power structures and epistemological hierarchies permeate how technology is understood, developed, and governed.

 

Dissertation working title: "Artificial Intelligence and Development. Continuities and Disruptions of Systems of Oppressions and Knowledge Hierarchies"

Supervisors: Stefan Peters (JLU) and Paola Ricaurte Quijano (Tecnológico de Monterrey).

 

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0342-1092

 

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Publications

  • Mesa-Vélez, Lucía. “Towards a Feminist Decolonial Governance of AI: Epistemic Justice for the Majority World.” In Oxford Intersections:  AI in Society. Ed. Philipp Hacker. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945215.001.0001
  • Mesa-Vélez, Lucía. “Beyond Digital Solutionism: Examining the Colonial Continuities of Digital Humanitarianism”. 2025. KULT_online, no. 71 (May). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2025.1523
  • Mesa-Vélez, Lucía. “’Culture of dialogue’ as a decolonial peacebuilding tool: the case of Colombia”. Journal of Dialogue Studies. London: Institute of Dialogue Studies, 2019. p. 93-114. DOI: 10.55207/RTXC2432
  • Mesa Vélez, Lucía. “Enunciaciones peatonales del turista perdido”. Arriba/Abajo: Catorce prácticas para acercarse a un paradigma. Documento CESO 212. Alessandra Merlo (comp.). Bogotá́: Ediciones Uniandes, 2014. p. 33 – 37.
Presentations

  • 'La “Cultura de Diálogo” como una herramienta decolonial de construcción de paz: el caso de Colombia'. 2021, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress. Virtual.
  • 'La ‘necrocolonialidad’ del asesinato de líderes sociales en Colombia'. 2020, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress. Virtual.


Research Interests

  • Critical AI studies and literacies
  • Technology and society
  • Feminist Science and Technology Studies
  • Decoloniality
  • AI ethics and governance
  • Global South / Majority World
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Additional Information

Scholarships:

  • PhD: Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP). DAAD, October 2024 - September 2027;
  • MA: Chevening Scholarship. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office of the United Kingdom (FCDO), October 2018 - September 2019.