Civil Disobedience Beyond the State II
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The Digitalization of Disobedience from Whistleblowing to Anonymous
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 the emergence of digital tactics of civil disobedience. 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 (Montreal)
- Joss Hands (Cambridge)
- Manohar Kumar (Delhi, tbc)
- Geoffroy de Lagasnerie (Paris)
- Bill Scheuerman (Bloomington)
- Jillian C. York (Berlin)
Programme
Friday May 8, 2015
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Welcome and Opening |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Lessons learned and emerging questions |
| 14:15 – 16:15 | Session 1: Weapons of the Geek? Anonymous and civil disobedience |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Break / Location change |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Public Lecture: Gabriella Coleman The Lecture will take place at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Vorlesungssaal R. 2091, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin. Register here for Gabriella Colman’s public Lecture. |
Saturday May 9, 2015
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Coffee |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Session 2: Whistleblowing – the new Civil Disobedience? |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunchbreak |
| 13:30 – 15:30 | Session 3: The Digital Turn of Civil Disobedience? |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffeebreak |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Concluding Session / Goodbye |
Organisers
Robin Celikates (University of Amsterdam)
Annette Zimmermann (University of Oxford)
Theresa Züger (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society)
Registration
Participation on registration only. Please contact: theresa.zueger@hiig.de
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