ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Activist Techtopias: Crafting Alternate Infrastructures of Resistance in Asia
AlterTech is an ethnographic study of how democracy and human rights activists in Asia alter existing infrastructures of resistance - that is, the organising structures and organisational resources needed for social movements - in the face of digital repression. It studies how activists experiment with new practices and different uses of technologies that are less vulnerable to repression, envisioning these practices as technological craftsmanship. AlterTech traces how activists recombine digital, analogue, and material technologies to craft alternate, high- and low-tech infrastructures that enable activism under the radar of the state. The convergence of political and technological…
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