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Technology and Resistance: Decentralized Communications and New Coalitions Around the World

Technology and Resistance: Decentralized Communications and New Coalitions Around the World

Hardcover

Series: Counterpoints, Book 59

AnthropologyGeneral EducationGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0820437956
ISBN13: 9780820437958
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Apr 5 2000
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.07 Depth: 8.91
Language: English
What happens when the means of communication, often centralized, become diffused? What happens when coalitions in South Africa, Malawi, China, Russia, Turkey, Burma, El Salvador, and the United States utilize electronic technologies to seek enfranchisement? This book describes such creative uses by emergent democratic movements and other cultural alliances seeking solidarity in these countries. It investigates the way the strange confluence of technological language and radical social change opens new discursive terrain. Unusual fissures and interstices appear; some auger well for the distribution of political power and the promotion of free speech, while unfortunately some open gaps within old hierarchies implicit in capitalistic discourses of technology.

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Steinberg, Shirley R.

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General Sociology