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Digital Natives and the Myth of the Revolution: Questioning the Radical Potential of Citizen Action

by Prasad Krishna last modified Apr 03, 2012 07:15 AM
At UC Santa Cruz, on Monday, March 5, 2012, Nishant Shah gave a lecture on "Digital Natives and the Myth of the Revolution: Questioning the Radical Potential of Citizen Action". The lecture focused more on the India Against Corruption case-study rather than the theoretical framework to understanding revolutions.
Digital Natives and the Myth of the Revolution: Questioning the Radical Potential of Citizen Action

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This talk is a thought-in-progress inquiry into the radical claims and potentials of citizen action which has emerged in the last few years in several parts of the world. It seeks to show how citizen action is not necessarily a radical form of politics and that we need to make a distinction between Resistances and Revolutions. It locates Resistance as an endemic condition of governmentality within a State-Citizen-Market relationship and shows how it often strengthens the status-quo rather than radically undermining it. Looking at one particular instance of a campaign against corruption in India, Nishant is seeking to build a framework that can  be deployed to understand the dissonance between the claims of the future and the practices of the present that gets produced in such instances of citizen action.

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