向民主推文:津巴布韦新的反独裁解放斗争

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Cadernos de Estudos Africanos Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI:10.4000/cea.4507

Chipo Dendere

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摘要

公民运动需要什么才能推翻根深蒂固的独裁政权？本文分析了津巴布韦公民主导的社交媒体运动的成功与失败。本文利用对50个WhatsApp和Facebook社区进行的广泛民族志研究中获得的数据，研究了公民激进主义，特别是那些源自社交媒体的运动，成为街头抗议的条件，这些抗议可以有效地推翻非法政权。我发现，最近运动的成功——政策变化和公民参与度的提高证明了这一点——在一定程度上是因为年轻公民的崛起，他们对解放斗争没有亏欠。津巴布韦出生的自由人更愿意通过在网上坦率地谈论政治并动员同龄人来承担政治风险。

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Tweeting to Democracy: A new anti-authoritarian liberation struggle in Zimbabwe

What does it take for a citizen movement to topple a deep-rooted authoritarian regime? This paper analyses the successes and failures of citizen-led social media campaigns in Zimbabwe. Using data drawn from an extensive ethnographic study of 50 WhatsApp and Facebook communities, this paper studies the conditions under which citizen activism, particularly those movements that originate on social media, become street protests that can effectively unseat an illegitimate regime. I find that the success of recent movements – evidenced by policy changes and increased citizen participation – is in part because of the rise of a youth citizenry that does not feel indebted to the liberation struggle. Zimbabwean born frees are more willing to take political risks by speaking candidly about politics online and mobilizing their peers.

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Cadernos de Estudos Africanos Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)

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0.20

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审稿时长

48 weeks

期刊介绍： Cadernos de Estudos Africanos is a journal published by the Centro de Estudos Internacionais of ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon focusing on an academic approach to Africa. It welcomes the collaboration of the international scientific community, who specializes in the Social Sciences branch of African Studies, and it is particularly committed to an internationalizing scope, following a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary envisioning. The journal publishes articles in four languages, Portuguese, English, Spanish and French, and it has been a regular biannual publication since its first issue (July 2001).