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Democracy in Africa, 2024
https://democracyinafrica.org/digital-democracy-offline-challenges-to-electronic-land-registries/
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Environment and Planning: Politics and Space. (with Nick Bernards and Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn), 2024
This article introduces a theme issue ‘Repoliticizing the technological turn in sustainability g... more This article introduces a theme issue ‘Repoliticizing the technological turn in sustainability governance’.
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British Library Endangered Archives Blog, w. Fallou Ngom, 2024
https://blogs.bl.uk/endangeredarchives/2024/03/digitising-islamic-west-african-histories.html
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March 2024
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Brill Blog "Humanities Matter" (w. Fallou Ngom), 2024
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Global Digital Data Governance, Routledge, 2024
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Islamic Africa, 14(2), 119-143 (w. Fallou Ngom and David Robinson), 2023
African ʿAjamī literatures hold a wealth of knowledge on the history and intellectual traditions ... more African ʿAjamī literatures hold a wealth of knowledge on the history and intellectual traditions of the region but are largely unknown to the larger public. Our special issue seeks to enhance a broader understanding of this important part of the Islamic world, exploring the ʿAjamī literatures and literacies of four main language groups of Muslim West Africa: Hausa, Mandinka, Fula, and Wolof. Through increasing access to primary sources in ʿAjamī and utilizing an innovative multimedia approach, our research contributes to an interpretive and comparative analysis of African ʿAjamī literacy, with its multiple purposes, forms, and custodians. We discuss the building blocks and historical development of ʿAjamī cultures in West Africa, outline the longitudinal collaborative research initiatives that our special issue draws upon, and explore the challenges and opportunities for participatory knowledge-making that accompany the rise of digital technologies in the study of African literatures and literacies.
Published in Islamic Africa 14 (2023) 119-143 * The article is part of the special issue "ʿAjamī Literacies of Africa," edited by F. Ngom, D. Rodima-Taylor, and David Robinson
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Islamic Africa, vols. 14.2 and 15.1 (Fallou Ngom, Daivi Rodima-Taylor, David Robinson), 2023
African Ajami literatures hold a wealth of knowledge on the history and intellectual traditions o... more African Ajami literatures hold a wealth of knowledge on the history and intellectual traditions of the region but are largely unknown to the larger public. Our double special issue seeks to enhance a broader understanding of this important part of the Islamic world, exploring the Ajami literatures and literacies of four main language groups of Muslim West Africa: Hausa, Mandinka, Fula, and Wolof. Through increasing access to primary sources in Ajami and utilizing an innovative multimedia approach, our research contributes to an interpretive and comparative analysis of African Ajami literacy, with its multiple purposes, forms, and custodians. Our Introduction to the special issue discusses the building blocks and historical development of Ajami cultures in West Africa, outlines the longitudinal collaborative research initiatives that our special issue draws upon, and explores the challenges and opportunities for participatory knowledge-making that accompany the rise of digital technologies in the study of African literatures and literacies.
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Migration Information Source (Migration Policy Institute), 2023
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In: Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media, 2023
This chapter explores the cryptopolitics of informal savings groups and contribution networks in ... more This chapter explores the cryptopolitics of informal savings groups and contribution networks in Africa as mediated through encrypted digital messaging platforms. Such platforms have rapidly become widespread in the global South. In Africa, they are central in mobilizing online savings groups as well as used for fundraising for a variety of causes, both public and private. Based on cases from South Africa and Kenya, my chapter argues that the emerging crypto-publics are constituted through multiple materialities and communicative forms, including the offline spaces of self-help groups with their social and historical embeddedness, and new digital platforms with BigTech connectivities. Mediated by encrypted messaging apps, the poor and marginal exercise their agency through self-help groups and networks, carving out new public spaces. While building on vernacular organizational templates and facilitating alternatives to more formalized versions of financial inclusion, such initiatives may also create exploitative invisibilities and foster data capture, scams and ‘Ponzi schemes.’ The chapter argues that such spaces always involve important and interconnected offline and online, and material and human modalities. It offers new perspectives to the formation of the digital public sphere in Africa through attention to cryptopolitics, and advances new approaches for analyzing it. When discussing the potential of encrypted chat apps to enable new types of collectivities built on peer solidarity, the paper draw parallels with other types of crypto-publics that emerge with cryptographic technologies and currencies.
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co-edited w. K. Pype and V. Bernal, Berghahn Books, 2023
Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and ... more Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, “cryptopolitics,” are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on African societies, Cryptopolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to consider public culture, sociality, and power in all its forms, illustrating the analytical potential of cryptopolitics to elucidate
intimate relationships, political protest, and economic strategies in the digital age.
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Anthropology Today, 39/4 (w. M. Campbell-Verduyn), 2023
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JRAI, vol. 29/1, 2023
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Journal of Cultural Economy, 2022
Paul Langley and Daivi Rodima-Taylor
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Journal of Cultural Economy, 2022
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Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 2022
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Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2022
(w. N. Bernards and M. Campbell-Verduyn)
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Eds.: Daivi Rodima-Taylor and Parker Shipton
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Land and the Mortgage: History, Culture, Belonging, 2022
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American Anthropologist 122/4, 2020
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Published in Islamic Africa 14 (2023) 119-143 * The article is part of the special issue "ʿAjamī Literacies of Africa," edited by F. Ngom, D. Rodima-Taylor, and David Robinson
intimate relationships, political protest, and economic strategies in the digital age.
Published in Islamic Africa 14 (2023) 119-143 * The article is part of the special issue "ʿAjamī Literacies of Africa," edited by F. Ngom, D. Rodima-Taylor, and David Robinson
intimate relationships, political protest, and economic strategies in the digital age.
in the scholarship of postsocialist land reform: the reinvention of land
mortgage as a means of transforming agrarian relations in formerly socialist
countries.
Solutions to global sustainability challenges are increasingly technology‐intensive. Yet, technologies are neither developed nor applied to governance problems in a socio‐political vacuum. Despite aspirations to provide novel solutions to current sustainability governance challenges, many technology‐centred projects, pilots and plans remain implicated in longer‐standing global governance trends shaping the possibilities for success in often under‐recognized ways. This article identifies three overlapping contexts within which technology‐led efforts to address sustainability challenges are evolving, highlighting the growing roles of: (1) private actors; (2) experimentalism; and (3) informality. The confluence of these interconnected trends illuminates an important yet often under‐recognized paradox: that the use of technology in multi‐stakeholder initiatives tends to reduce rather than expand the set of actors, enhancing instead of reducing challenges to participation and transparency, and reinforcing rather than transforming existing forms of power relations. Without recognizing and attempting to address these limits, technology‐led multi‐stakeholder initiatives will remain less effective in addressing the complexity and uncertainty surrounding global sustainability governance. We provide pathways for interrogating the ways that novel technologies are being harnessed to address long‐standing global sustainability issues in manners that foreground key ethical, social and political considerations and the contexts in which they are evolving.