Digitality and Political Theory
Mapping a Research Agenda in African Political Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10830273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudia Favarato (0000-0001-8251-650X) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 176 |
| Pages | 34-64 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0495-4548 • E-ISSN: 2171-679X |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/th.2023.7017602 |
| OpenAlex | W4387913442 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
Digitality is increasingly central to individuals’ existence, which has political implications. The article maps the political implications of digitalisation, focusing on African political thought. The latter is marked by Afro-communitarianism ideas, which foster solidarity, relationality, and communalism as foundational values of the polity. However, African communitarianism has granted little attention to contemporary phenomena such as digitalisation. Also, political theory discussions on digitality have looked mainly at (neo)liberal contexts. How the digital age is reshaping the tenets of communitarian political theories represents an underdiscussed issue. This article outlines a research agenda on digitality and African political thought. New digitality-enabled relational modes change human and political interactions. The issue at stake is how these new modes challenge or strengthen the Afro-communitarian political outlook. This article recognises digital-humanism, political community, relations of power as central matters of inquiry. The analysis relies on bibliographic sources from African philosophy and comparative political theory
Communalism · Communitarianism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Liberalism · Political communication · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Digital Education and Society · Law · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics
African philosophy
Consensus as Democracy in Africa
Algorithmic Colonization of Africa
Developing African Political Philosophy
Towards Rawlsian ‘property-owning democracy’ through personal data platform cooperatives
Politics without Politics
Menkiti’s normative communitarian conception of personhood as gendered, ableist and anti-queer
What is African Communitarianism? Against Consensus as a regulative ideal
Postphenomenological Method and Technological Things Themselves
Critique of black reason
Das Ende des Politischen? Demokratische Politik und Künstliche Intelligenz
Political Theory of the Digital Constellation
Data-owning democracy
An all-too-human future? Revolution, utopia and the many lives of humanity
Contemporary Political Theory
The Cybernetic Hypothesis
Explorations in African Political Thought
For Whom the Ontology Turns
The Nature of Opposition in Kwasi Wiredu's Democracy by Consensus
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |