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Short Abstract:
Moving between the analogue and the digital, the panel discusses reconfigurations of political spaces "on" the African continent. Between constraints and potentials offered by the digital (revolution), it debates how new technologies are empowering or narrowing the emergence of political paradigms.
Long Abstract:
This panel questions how we envision, at the present stage and in the future, the (digital) political space. As digitality becomes omni-pervasive, politics and the political are shifting from the analogue to the digital sphere. The modes of this transliteration are yet unclear. Would the sphere of political digitality be a copy of its analogue counterpart? Or would the inherent character of the digital assimilate any political form? Digitality is generally pictured as a space that promotes subject-centred, atomistic structure, along with liberal political model and capitalist economic interests. Such assumptions lead us to ponder about a "digital end of history", as the expanding digitalisation bottlenecks political paradigms into one and only possible model. On the other hand, many embraced the digitality as a space of renewal that enhance the flourishing of other (or even anew) political paradigms, such us platform socialism or digital communitarianism, among others.
We invite contributions that seek to understand how the digital is reconfiguring the political, especially considering implications, possibilities and potentials "on" the African continent. In addition to case study and empirical studies, we welcome reflections centred on discussing theoretical analyses on digital politics and proposals for African digital political paradigms.