![]() ![]() ![]() Submit your abstract to and with “Internet Shutdowns in Africa” in the subject line. We welcome submissions from activists and practitioners as well as from emerging and established scholars. Please include a short bio or CV, along with your submission. We invited potential authors to indicate their interest by submitting a 250-word abstract by 31st October 2023 indicating what the chapter would cover. As such it provides the first opportunity to make a comparative assessment of internet shutdowns in Africa and produce actionable recommendations based on such analysis. It will analyse the causes, types, and roles played by state, corporate and civic actors to provide recommendations to end internet shutdowns. This volume will provide rich case studies of different kinds of internet shutdown from countries across the continent. This is the first ever book-length analysis of the causes, types, consequences, and responses to internet shutdowns across Africa. A range of tactics are now being employed by citizens to prevent, protest, and end internet shutdowns and defend the right to information, communication, and online expression. Internet shutdowns can last hours, days, weeks, months, and even years. Shutdowns impact diverse aspects of people's lives, violate a wide range of human rights and have dramatic social, political and economic consequences – some intended and others unintended.ĭifferent demographic groups are affected in very different ways during shutdowns. Internet shutdowns take a very wide range of different forms: they can be nationwide or localised, they can target a specific social media platform or website, or they can be in the form of throttling or slowdown of internet traffic or in the form of a complete shutdown (near-zero dip in internet traffic). Shutdowns are used as a tactic of war, to blackout news of state violence, or to disrupt opposition protests. They are triggered by different perceived threats in different countries. In some countries they happen regularly and at predictable times such as elections, protests, during conflicts and even during school exams. We invite abstract submissions for chapters to be included in a collected edition book on the implementation of internet shutdowns and civic responses.ĭuring contentious elections, protests or conflict some governments switch the internet off, shrinking democratic space, and violating fundamental human rights to access information, to freedom of expression, assembly and association. Internet shutdowns have occurred in at least 37 countries out of Africa’s 55 countries since 2016. 'Internet Shutdowns in Africa: digital rights, repression, and resistance'Įdited by Felicia Anthonio and Tony RobertsĪ collected edition to be published by Zed Books in 2025 He lives in New Cross, London.Call for Chapter Abstracts for a New Book: In 2012 he co-edited the volume What We Are Fighting For, Pluto Press. ![]() ![]() He collaborates on the magazines Loop and Alfabeta2 and on the radio show Novara on Resonance FM. He has an MSc in Economics and Management of Arts, Cuture Media and Entertainment from Bocconi University, Milan, and an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths University, London. In 2009 he started a long-term collaboration with the Italian Autonomia philosopher Franco Berardi 'Bifo', whose reader he is currently editing for the Italian publisher Il Saggiatore.Īfter three years with the publishing workers' cooperative Zed Books, in 2011 he has joined the radical publisher Verso Books, where he currently works as rights manager. In 2007 he moved to London, where he started working at the Max Wigram contemporary art gallery. He spent more than twenty years in Milan, where he worked as a political and literary activist, co-founding the street-poetry collective Eveline. Federico Campagna was born in Sondrio (Italian Alps) in 1984 after his parents migration from Sicily to the north of Italy. ![]()
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