Naslov
“You don’t have the right to have rights” – Employing ICTs to dismantle government myths around offshore detention centres on Guantanamo and Manus

Autori
Klepač, Tihana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Media, American Culture, and Global Perspective: Images, Ideas, and Illusion / - , 2023, 9-10

Skup
Media, American Culture, and Global Perspective: Images, Ideas, and Illusion

Mjesto i datum
Rijeka, Hrvatska, 31.03.2023

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Poems from Guantanamo, Marc Falkoff, Don’t Forget Us Here, Mansoor Adayfi, Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains ; Freedom, Only Freedom, digital ICTs, liberation technology

Sažetak
„A life without speech and without action, … is literally dead to the world” (Arendt 1958: 176). In acting and speaking we show who we are, we make our appearance in the world, and education is crucial in the process of acquisition of knowledge and skills required for this expression. It is a point where we decide not to strike from our children’s hands “their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world” (Arendt 1969: 196). Thus we can understand education as a shielded site of experimentation to learn what citizenship practices are in informal settings. One such site are modern, interrelated forms of digital ICTs as they hold the possibility of becoming transformative of citizenship. Diamond and Plattner refer to them as “liberation technology” as they enable „citizens to report news, expose wrongdoing, express opinions, mobilize protest, monitor elections, scrutinize government, deepen participation, and expand the horizons of freedom” (2012: 4). Poems from Guantanamo edited by Marc Falkoff and Don’t Forget Us Here by Mansoor Adayfi provide a US equivalent to Australian Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains and Freedom, Only Freedom by giving a voice to detainees and making the inhumane and unlawful practices of detention centres visible by employing digital ICTs. Their writings are not just acts of resistance and ways to reclaim identity, but by making them broadly legible, the governments were held somewhat more accountable for their actions.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Povijest, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Književnost

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