Am 8. und 9. Mai findet in Amsterdam Berlin der Workshop „Civil Disobedience Beyond the State II: The Digitalization of Disobedience from Whistleblowing to Anonymous“ statt. Thematisiert wird der Wandel zivilen Ungehorsams, dessen Globalisierung und Digitalisierung. Die Vortragenden decken das Feld von Aktivismus und wissenschaftlicher Reflektion breit ab, unter anderem werden Gabriella Coleman, Jillian C. York und Bill Scheuermann vortragen. Wer teilnehmen will, muss sich vorab registrieren. Wie, wo und überhaupt alle weiteren Infos findet ihr auf der Webseite oder unter dem Strich.
Workshop:
Civil Disobedience Beyond the State II:
The Digitalization of Disobedience from Whistleblowing to Anonymous
Berlin, May 8-9, 2015
From the Civil Rights Movement to Occupy, civil disobedience is an essential
part of the history and present of liberal democracies. At the same time,
however, this form of protest has remained theoretically and politically
contested. Currently, there are two central and interrelated phenomena that
are triggering a significant transformation of civil disobedience:
globalisation and digitalisation. Jointly, they raise new theoretical and
political challenges that require a rethinking of civil disobedience beyond
the state. With this workshop – the second in a series of three – we aim at
contributing to this rethinking from a variety of interdisciplinary
perspectives.
The focus of this workshop is on the emergence of digital tactics of civil
disobedience. More recently, two digital practices have emerged as prominent
new forms of civil disobedience, thereby challenging the traditional
understanding: Anonymous and Whistleblowing. In three sessions with
presentations from our speakers followed by a set of short comments and an
open discussion we will address the digital turn of civil disobedience and
its implications for political theory.
Speakers
* Gabriella Coleman (McGill University, Montreal)
* Joss Hands (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)
* Manohar Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
* Geoffroy de Lagasnerie (École nationale supérieure d’arts de
Cergy-Pontoise, Paris)
* Bill Scheuerman (Indiana University, Bloomington)
* Jillian C. York (EFF, Berlin)
Organisers
Robin Celikates <http://www.uva.nl/profiel/r.
Amsterdam)
Annette Zimmermann <http://oxford.academia.edu/
(University of Oxford)
Theresa Züger <http://www.hiig.de/en/staff/
Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin)
Registration
Participation on registration only. Please contact: theresa.zueger@hiig.de
With the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and
Society (www.hiig.de), the NWO VIDI Project Transformations of Civil
Disobedience (thedisobedienceproject.
Center for Globalization Studies (acgs.uva.nl)
For more detailed information, see
http://www.hiig.de/events/