Digital activism across North-South divides
This workshop focuses on critical issues in digital activism, traversing North-South boundaries to explore a range of themes and geopolitical contexts: the relation between embodied and digital forms of activism, digital archives as activist resources, repertoires of protest, and the mediation of affective and emotional solidarities. Across contributions, the workshop will attempt to envision a digital politics of location that addresses inequalities of race, class, gender and geography.
Individual presentations will explore: the archival practices of digital feminist activism in Iran, digital practices of witnessing and anti- securitisation in the Mediterranean, media repertoires and everyday resistance under Covid lockdown in China, affect and digital territoriality during the #MahsaAmini protests in Iran, digital civic initiatives and civil society in Belarus, and shifting definitions of activism – blurring the boundaries between civic action and lifestyle choices.
Speakers
- Dr Sara Tafakori, Lecturer, University of Leeds
- Dr Mitra Shamsi, CAIS Fellow
- Dr Delia Dumitrica, Associate Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Dr Lucien Vilhalva de Campos, Postdoctoral fellow at universities and institutes in Germany and Austria, former CAIS Fellow
- Dr Vasil Navumau, Institute of Social Movements, Ruhr-University Bochum, former CAIS Fellow