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The Arduous Road to Revolution: Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in the Digital Communication Age

by Gabriele Giacomini
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788869774072
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Mimesis
  • Publisher Imprint: Mimesis
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  • Pages: 116
  • Original Price: GBP 9.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 170 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism and World / General

The right to rebel against an authoritarian power is part of liberal and democratic culture. As early as the late seventeenth century, John Locke theorised that if a state abuses its citizens, they have the right to revolt. Nowadays, information and communication technologies can help the early stages of revolt. However, at the same time they also seem to offer the threatened autocrats powerful tools. Failed revolutions that have unfolded in our digital age in countries such as Myanmar, Ukraine, Iran, Egypt, Hong Kong and Belarus, bring to light the great and often successful efforts of authoritarian regimes to use new technologies for surveillance, oppression, propaganda, censorship, and the suppression of fundamental rights. The risk of a drift towards despotism, from which even long-established democracies are not immune, prompts us to ask what skills, rules and institutions might help citizens to defend their freedom when it is under threat, including in the digital sphere.

Giacomini, Gabriele: - Gabriele Giacomini is currently postdoctoral researcher at the University of Udine (Italy) and fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe of the University of Rijeka (Croatia).

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