Lucía Fernanda Mesa Vélez
- About me
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As a Doctoral Candidate at the GCSC, Lucía is researching critical approaches to the ethics and governance of using artificial intelligence to address social issues such as gender-based violence through decolonial and feminist theoretical frameworks. 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 the case of AI models that aim to prevent or respond to gender-based violence, her work examines how power structures and epistemological hierarchies permeate the way in which technology is understood, developed, and governed.
Dissertation working title: "Technology and Gender-Based Violence: A Decolonial Feminist Inquiry into Governance and Ethical Practices"
Supervisors: Stefan Peters (JLU) and Paola Ricaurte Quijano (Tecnológico de Monterrey).
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0342-1092
- Contact
- Publications
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- 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, forthcoming.
- 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
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- '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
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- Technology and society
- Feminist Science and Technology Studies
- Decoloniality
- AI ethics and governance
- Global South / Majority World
- Memberships
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- Co-Speaker of the Working Group (AG) Global South
- Member of Research Area 5: Media and Multiliteracy Studies
- Member of Research Area 8: Cultures of Knowledge, Research and Education
- Additional Information
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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.