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• Introduction : Communication rights in Africa : theoretical and practical Considerations / Tendai Chari and Ufuoma Akpojivi
• Part I : Cultural and minority rights
• Language-cultural barrier in Ubang community : a critical assessment of the communication rights of women and the girl-child / Chike Mgbeadichie
• Silicon savannah or digitising marginalisation? A reflection of Kenya's government digitization policies, strategies and projects / Job Mwaura
• Please do not call it human right : a southern epistemological perspective on the digital inclusion of people with disabilities in South Africa / Lorenzo Dalvit
• The interdependence of communication, political, and socio-economic rights : examining the lived experiences of eigitally marginalised netizens before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos State, Nigeria / Olutobi Akingbade
• Part II : Digital citizenship
• Cabo Delgado Também é Moçambique : the paths of youth digital activism in a restrictive context / Dércio Tsandzana
• Citizen journalism and the entrenchment of communication rights in Zimbabwe / Ernest Mudzengi and Wellington Gadzikwa
• Part III : Freedom, censorship and intellectual property rights
• 'The right to tell my story as I please' : regulation and self-censorship in the Nigerian film industry / Ikechukwu Obiaya
• A critical review of intellectual property rights : the case of Nigeria / Aifuwa Edosomwan
• Internet shutdowns in semi-authoritarian regimes : the case of Cameroon / Ngangum Peter Tiako
• Fake news v Freedom of expression : legislating media trademarks infringements on social media platforms in Kenya and South Africa / Brian Hungwe
• Part IV : Politics of digital infrastructures
• Politics of digital infrastructures in the Global South : the case of #DataMustFall campaign in South Africa / Tendai Chari
• Silence and silent the SóróSoké generation : the politicisation of social media in Nigeria / Akpojivi Ufuoma.

• Free speech and non-state censors
• Self-censorship, self-restraint, and the ethics of conversation
• Censorship and the workplace
• The "old" media: censorship and press freedom
• The new (social) media
• Search and monopoly
• (Not so) final thoughts.

• Free Speech and Non-State Censors
• Self-Censorship, Self-Restraint, and the Ethics of Conversation
• Censorship and the Workplace
• The 'Old' Media: Censorship and Press Freedom
• The New (Social) Media
• Search and Monopoly
• (Not So) Final Thoughts.

"My goal in this book is to slow down and ask some basic questions: What is censorship and why does it strike us as a grave problem? Is censorship the right concept for thinking about the above phenomena, or are complaints couched in the language of censorship confused, perhaps conceptually? Supposing that there is no confusion, what rights do the new censors have and do they act within those rights when they act in the ways described above? Supposing that they do act within their rights, is their behavior beyond reproach? And if it isn't, what exactly is wrong with it? Answering these questions is crucial for addressing a further question: What should be done about all of this? Do existing executive and legislative proposals represent a wise course of action? Or are they hastily drawn and likely to make matters worse? In addressing these questions, I'll begin at the beginning, with an account of censorship and the reasons it is morally and politically troubling. With this account on the table, we'll see that thinking of the cases above in terms of censorship is perfectly above board. This is in part because private censorship can threaten our ability to realize an intellectual environment we have reason to value, if we value free speech. Despite this, questions about the proper response to private censorship are far from straightforward. For although private parties and states can both act as censors, their censorship affects others in importantly different ways. And those differences mean a great deal for determining the duties of citizens, executives, and legislators. Before we begin, it is worth flagging a methodological point. In the remainder of this chapter, I will be asking you to consider various examples in the service of clarifying concepts or eliciting normative judgments. In discussing these examples, I will be making normative judgments of my own. You will read me saying things like, "such and such is clearly wrong" or "so and so is clearly permissible." It is a background supposition of this work that such judgments can be true or false, and that they are no mere matters of opinion. But I will often be unable to argue for the judgments on which I rely. Rather, I invite you to think about the cases yourself and exercise your own judgment. If it departs from mine, think about why that is. If you can't shake the feeling that I've gone wrong, great! That's how valuable philosophical exchanges are born"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword / by Karin Fischer
• Introduction: The Right in the Americas / Julián Castro-Rea and Esther Solano
• Part 1. The Americas as Right-Wing Transnational Space
• Part 2. Genesis and Development of Right-Wing Actors
• Part 3. Contemporary Expressions of the Right
• Part 4. Conclusions.

"The Right in the Americas discusses the origins, development and current state of conservative and right-wing movements in ten countries in the Americas. The growth of the right is one of the most important issues of the moment in global politics. Within the context of democracy erosion, rejection of traditional politics and economic uncertainty, right and extreme-right actors are capable of offering misguided answers and hope to a significant part of a country's population, who will trust their promises and bring them to power with their vote. This dynamic has repeated itself in an astonishingly consistent pattern across the Americas. This book analyses eight Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela, along with Canada and the United States, two G7 countries. It demonstrates that conservatism is in fact a Hemispheric phenomenon, promoted and invigorated by the regional hegemon-the United States of America-both as government and civil society. Beyond this regional scope, the peculiarities of each case study are explored in detail, providing solid historical background, while at the same time uncovering their commonalities and cross-pollination. This study will be of great interest to scholars of conservatism, right-wing politics, comparative politics, North American, and Latin American politics"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• The Ghost in the "Impossible Machine": Reparation and the Biopolitics of Transition
• On Apology and the Spectre of a Haunting Shame in the TRC
• The Spectre of Reparation in the Archive: The TRC's Work on the Role of Business During Apartheid and the Ongoing Demand for Reparation
• The Spectre as Refusal: Reparation and Forgiveness in the Work of Mourning
• Creative Haunting: Towards the Poetic Justice of Reparative Citizenship
• Conclusion.

• 1. Les révoltes communales, ou l'autodéfense populaire
• Les assemblées de communes, entre conservation et insurrection
• La justice populaire. Des guerres privées à la guerre sociale
• 2. La guerre des gueux et le processus révolutionnaire
• Révoltes paysannes et révolution bourgeoise
• La technologie de la révolution (Octobre)
• 3. Les contradictions non contemporaines
• La contradiction réactionnaire
• La contradiction utopique
• 4. Marx et la commune rurale
• L'Inde et les paradoxes de l'archaïsme
• La Russie et le paradoxe du contemporain
• 5. Survivance et anticipation
• La non-coïncidence des temps
• La science et la révolte
• 6. Les archaïsmes à fonction actuelle
• Des néo-archaïsmes à l'Urstaat
• Des mouvements nationalitaires à la machine de guerre
• 7. Régression et transgression
• La progression à l'envers
• Fin de l'histoire et fin du monde (eschatologie et schizophrénie)
• 8. La révolte à mains nues
• Résistance et martyrologie
• La foi et la loi.

""Il ne faut pas avoir peur de l'archaïsme", lançait Karl Marx en 1881. Cette peur revient pourtant aujourd'hui comme un leitmotiv. Ressuscitée dans le discours dominant pour disqualifier les résistances aux réformes néolibérales ("Il faut être modernes..."), elle est aussi provoquée, confusément, par la réaffirmation croissante des identités collectives de type identitaire ou religieux. Sous l'allure du retour à un passé révolu, l'histoire se hérisse de formes de réaction et de restauration parfaitement contemporaines. Cela étant, les archaïsmes peuvent aussi couver des potentialités émancipatrices. Quand ils se détachent de la croyance en la supériorité du capitalisme et de la certitude qu'il est le terme d'un progrès, quand ils résistent à l'ordonnancement de la pensée révoltée en pensée dirigeante, les soulèvements populaires découvrent dans l'archaïsme des possibles non advenus et des ressources subjectives antagonistes. Au fil des huit épisodes qui en constituent l'histoire, cet ouvrage invite à suivre les figures révoltées de l'archaïsme, celles qui l'arrachent à la réaction et le gagnent à la cause de l'émancipation : durant la séquence de la transition vers le capitalisme tout d'abord, à travers les divisions de la politique subjective marxiste ensuite, dans les problématisations contemporaines des luttes minoritaires et des mouvements nationalitaires enfin."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction
• Thomas Mann's Joseph Tetralogy : a "musico-literary poetics" of equality
• A right to the city : Toni Morrison's literary jazz
• An egalitarian Istanbul : ethos's cinematic portraiture
• Latinx visibility : architecture and public history

"Aesthetics of Equality is a theoretical and compositional intervention into the problem of equality. While some of the analysis is concerned with contemporary issues, the book is a primarily a work of political theory and a guide to aesthetic methods, focused on how one can conceive equality issues critically through conceptual engagements with diverse artistic genres: literature, film, music, photography, and architecture. Beginning with the question, "what one can contribute to equality issues by being attentive to aesthetic form in a variety of artistic genres that challenge institutionalized accounts of history," the book proceeds to implement answer by extracting political problematics with analyses of the compositional structures of the textual objects of analysis in the chapter's diverse inquiries. While aesthetic strategies are a main concern in the investigation, it is also shaped by commitments to some substantive political concerns, particularly an attentiveness to persons and voices that tend to be civically invisible The assembled chapters demonstrate the way critical approaches to a variety of media genres make visible and audible the persons and groups that are excluded or disqualified from access to livable domestic space and civic participation. The subject matter is temporally extensive, ranging from ancient Israel and Egypt in the Old Testament's Genesis chapter through the early and later ethno-histories of California and Texas and geographically broad, with chapters on diverse cities: New York, Paris, Istanbul, Los Angeles, and fictional Texas and Mexican border cities"-- Provided by publisher

"Aesthetics of Equality is a theoretical and compositional intervention into the problem of equality. While some of the analysis is concerned with contemporary issues, the book is a primarily a work of political theory and a guide to aesthetic methods, focused on how one can conceive equality issues critically through conceptual engagements with diverse artistic genres: literature, film, music, photography, and architecture. Beginning with the question, "what one can contribute to equality issues by being attentive to aesthetic form in a variety of artistic genres that challenge institutionalized accounts of history," the book proceeds to implement answer by extracting political problematics with analyses of the compositional structures of the textual objects of analysis in the chapter's diverse inquiries. While aesthetic strategies are a main concern in the investigation, it is also shaped by commitments to some substantive political concerns, particularly an attentiveness to persons and voices that tend to be civically invisible The assembled chapters demonstrate the way critical approaches to a variety of media genres make visible and audible the persons and groups that are excluded or disqualified from access to livable domestic space and civic participation. The subject matter is temporally extensive, ranging from ancient Israel and Egypt in the Old Testament's Genesis chapter through the early and later ethno-histories of California and Texas and geographically broad, with chapters on diverse cities: New York, Paris, Istanbul, Los Angeles, and fictional Texas and Mexican border cities"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: Historical perspectives on transitional justice / Peter Hoeres
• Ethiopia : the post-Dergue transitional justice process / Tadesse Simie Metekla
• Rwanda : transitional justice after genocide / Julia Viebach
• South Africa : addressing the unsettled accounts of Apartheid / Hugo van der Merwe
• Albania : coming to terms with the Communist dictatorship / Jonila Godole
• Argentina : Nunca más : the long road to truth, justice, and remembrance / Veit Strasser
• Chile : report on the democratic transition process after Pinchet / Ricardo Brodsky
• Uruguay : politics of the past : the dialectic of forgetting and remembering / Veit Strasser
• Conclusion: The effectiveness of instruments of transitional justice : an international comparison / Hubertus Knabe

"Numerous studies concerning transitional justice exist. However, comparatively speaking, the effects actually achieved by measures for coming to terms with dictatorships have seldom been investigated. There is an even greater lack of transnational analyses. This volume contributes to closing this gap in research. To this end, it analyses processes of coming to terms with the past in seven countries with different experiences of violence and dictatorship. Experts have drawn up detailed studies on transitional justice in Albania, Argentina, Ethiopia, Chile, Rwanda, South Africa and Uruguay. Their analyses constitute the empirical material for a comparative study of the impact of measures introduced within the context of transitional justice. It becomes clear that there is no sure formula for dealing with dictatorships. Successes and deficits alike can be observed in relation to the individual instruments of transitional justice – from criminal prosecution to victim compensation. Nevertheless, the South American states perform much better than those on the African continent. This depends less on the instruments used than on political and social factors. Consequently, strategies of transitional justice should focus more closely on these contextual factors"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: religion and politics as human universals
• Catholic integralism and the integralists
• History --Symmetry
• Transition
• Stability
• Justice
• Confucian and Islamic anti-liberalisms
• Epilogue: reconciliation.

• Pt. 1. Avant-propos de la première partie
• 1. La contrainte de cour
• Le Sage en cour
• Variations sur la contrainte
• La servitude volontaire
• L'obsession
• Rhétorique et psychologie
• Othon, ou l'illusion tragique
• 2. Consoler la cour
• La consolation classique
• Le Secrétaire de la cour
• La retraite
• La plainte du courtisan
• 3. Le parfait gentilhomme
• La sujétion
• La culture populaire et le "bas" corporel
• La distinction
• La chute
• Le livre du Sage
• De la perfection à l'honnête médiocrité.
• Grande éloquence et style moyen
• L'angélisme chevaleresque
• Pt. 2. Avant-propos de la seconde partie
• 4. La servitude volontaire
• Les deux faces
• La face extérieure
• La face intérieure
• La Boétie et la tradition anticuriale
• La Servitude volontaire comme texte métapsycho-logique
• Les sources antiques de la servitude volontaire
• La littérature anti-aulique avant la Servitude volontaire
• La littérature anti-aulique après la Servitude volontaire
• La satire anti-aulique dans la Servitude volontaire
• Agamemnon mythique tyran : le trompeur trompé
• Ulysse courtisan
• L'effémination des courtisans
• Ronsard courtisan
• 5. Cinna, ou l'auguste obéissance
• L'obéissance du roi
• Clémence anachronique
• Sénèque ou Aristote
• La victoire sur la colère, la pire des passions
• Unanimité
• L'art d'être maître des cœurs
• Sauver et servir
• La corruption de la sagesse stoïcienne
• 6. Iphigénie, ou le sacrifice de l'esclave
• L'absolution d'Euphorbe
• Le sacrifice d'Iphigénie
• 7. La pulsion de l'espérance
• 8. Sujet et sujétion
• Le dieu de Socrate : "le soi de soi-même"
• Le sujet fugitif de Montaigne
• Le moi haïssable
• La perversion de l'amour-propre
• La philosophie mécanique : la suppression du moi
• Médée
• Le moi romantique
• Le Soi
• Épilogue. Psychologie et pneumatologie.

"Aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles, la chevalerie, la noblesse, enfin l'homme et la femme modernes s'asservirent volontairement au pouvoir de l'État. Pour comprendre cette "servitude volontaire", cet ouvrage étudie des traités de cour et de l'honnêteté, c'est-à-dire des ouvrages qui, soit dénoncent le pouvoir tyrannique du monarque et la cupidité des courtisans; soit exaltent la toute-puissance du roi et les plaisirs de la cour. Dans le second cas, celui des réjouissances, le courtisan doit d'abord faire preuve d'allégeance, sans répit faire montre de complaisances, puis espérer qu'en retour, un jour, il obtiendra quelque récompense. Il lira les traités, il apprendra comment marcher, comment parler, comment surtout se contenir, afin d'avoir l'insigne privilège d'approcher, peut-être, du trône. Ce livre est aussi une étude de la tragédie classique, du grand Corneille, de l'inégalable Racine qui, dans une langue sublime, à l'avance ont voulu nous consoler, par la beauté, des peines et de l'inquiétude d'être sujets."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction
• 1. The Women of the Comite Mondial des Femmes contre la Guerre et le Fascisme
• 2. Sites of Anti-Fascist Collaboration and Exchange: CMF Congresses
• 3. The Comite mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme, the Soviet Union, and the Comintern
• 4. The European Campaigns of the Comite mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme
• 5. The Global Campaigns of the Comite mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme
• 6. Campaigning on a National Scale
• 7. Traditional Femininity as a Tool of Women's Emancipation Conclusion.
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Corrective to male-dominated historiography of anti-fascism Draws on new archival sources First account in English of this important women's anti-fascist group.
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• Pt. 1. Du populisme à l'antipopulisme
• 1. Faire face à l'extrême droite
• Pt. 2. Genèse de l'antipopulisme savant
• 1. Le contexte nord-américain
• 2. Le progressisme est le conservatisme, et inversement
• 3. Contre la participation politique
• 4. La réforme est à la fois inutile et dangereuse
• 5. Un égalitarisme menaçant
• 6. Nationalisme, xénophobie et antisémitisme
• 7. Psychologisation des revendications populistes
• 8. Conclusion : des raisonnements pauvres et incohérents
• Pt. 3. La science politique et la démocratie
• 1. Un parti pris antidémocratique
• 2. Les politistes et le monopole de l'analyse politique
• 3. Une longue histoire
• 4. Quelle pensée politique ?
• Pt. 4. Haine du populisme, haine de la démocratie
• 1. Une étrange conception de la démocratie
• 2. La démocratie sans le peuple
• 3. Contre le temps démocratique
• Pt. 5. À la recherche du populisme démocratique
• 1. Un peuple moral et conservateur (Christopher Lasch)
• 2. Le populisme comme césarisme (Ernesto Laclau)
• 3. Un populisme démocratique (Lawrence Goodwyn).

"Le problème du populisme, ce ne sont pas les partis ou mouvements qui sont qualifiés ainsi mais les discours qui en parlent. Neuf fois sur dix, quand le terme "populiste" est utilisé par les intellectuels ou les politiques, y compris de gauche, il s'agit a minima d'une critique, au pire d'une insulte. Le "populisme" désigne pourtant à l'origine la défense du pouvoir du peuple contre sa captation par les élites. Pour Antoine Chollet, les antipopulistes sont en fait hostiles à une démocratie reposant sur le pouvoir des citoyens. Sous prétexte de dénoncer de prétendus "excès" de la démocratie, c'est bien cette dernière qu'ils visent. Derrière une façade modérée, les conséquences sont radicales : érosion de la souveraineté populaire, recul des libertés et creusement des inégalités."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction
• La révolution a commencé en 1968
• Italie, années 1960-1970
• Métamorphoses de la lutte des classes
• Les années d'hiver
• L'horizon d'un nouveau cycle révolutionnaire
• Chronologie
• Bibliographie sélective.

"Comment ne pas désespérer ? Comment maximiser notre capacité d'agir et de penser ? Comment défaire tous les efforts et les dispositifs qui visent à séparer la multitude de sa puissance ? L'urgence de ces questions traverse l'œuvre d'Antonio Negri depuis ses commencements - dans les années 1960 et 1970, alors qu'un mouvement d'insurrection ouvrière soulevait l'Italie - jusqu'à ses plus récents développements - avec l'altermondialisation et l'émergence dans l'espace public des questions écologiques. À travers différents ouvrages devenus des classiques de la théorie politique - notamment La Classe ouvrière contre l'État, Marx au-delà de Marx, L'Anomalie sauvage, Le Pouvoir constituant, mais aussi, en collaboration avec Michael Hardt, Empire, Multitude, Commonwealth et Assembly -, Antonio Negri a proposé l'une des contributions les plus marquantes à la pensée critique contemporaine. À l'heure de la contre-révolution néolibérale et du renouvellement des modalités de l'exploitation, il s'agit pour lui de prendre acte de la péremption des formes anciennes de la lutte des classes et de contribuer à l'ouverture d'un nouvel horizon révolutionnaire, à hauteur des enjeux du temps présent."--Page 4 of cover.

"The Aporia of Freedom systematizes social theories in a new manner, alternative both to the pluralistic concept, according to which social theories are incommensurable, and to the concept which postulates a theoretical synthesis in social sciences. Kaczmarczyk argues that famous social theories constitute interrelated attempts to solve the same problem, called the aporia of freedom. The problem concerns the relation between existential assumptions of social determinism and human freedom. Although these ideas turn out to be mutually exclusive, they seem to be necessary for the construction of a coherent and empirically convincing social theory"-- Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction I.The Act of Spectatorship II.The Judgment of Taste III.The Exemplarity of Particulars Notes Works Cited Index.
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A nuanced extrapolation of Hannah Arendt's theory of judgment through her highly provocative reading of Immanuel Kant More than a half century after it was first published, Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism rose to the top of best-seller lists as readers grappled with the triumph of Trumpism. Arendt, Kant, and the Enigma of Judgment directs our attention to her later thought, the posthumously published and highly provocative Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy. Martin Blumenthal-Barby puts this work in dialogue with Arendt's other writings, including her notes on Kant's Critique of Judgment, to outline her theory of judgment for the twentieth century. The idea that authentic judgment-for example, the ability to distinguish right from wrong-is incommensurable with abstract, automated processes lies at the center of Arendt's late work and at the fore of our collective reckoning in an era of post-truths and artificial intelligence. Rather than presenting us with a fixed account, Blumenthal-Barby suggests, Arendt's drawing and redrawing of conceptual distinctions is itself an enactment of judgment, a process that challenges and complicates what she says at every turn. In so doing, Arendt, in thoroughly Kantian fashion, establishes judgment as a performative category that can never be taught but only demonstrated. As sharp as it is timely, this incisive book reminds us why a shared reality matters in a time of intense political polarization and why the democratic project, vulnerable as it may appear today, crucially depends on it.
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