Abstract This dispatch examines contemporary activist movements in Angola and their political utopias, namely relevance to citizenship governance, increasing importance the landscape. The authors describe civic mobilization toward implementation of a municipal electoral system (autarquia) argue that it poses an Afro-utopian challenge: issue autarky, or recognition self-organization self-suffici...

The predominance of patriarchally-based structures in Kristeva’s work sets up an uncomfortable dichotomy for feminist critics. Her 1979 essay ‘Le temps des femmes’ (translated as ‘Women’s Time’ in 1981) most explicitly articulates her own approach to feminism, addressing women’s troubled relationship to patriarchy in terms of time and space. Kristeva identifies three distinct positions in femin...

People have generally been very ambivalent about the potential future roles of new technologies (and the internet specifically) and their possible effects on human society. Indeed, there has been a tendency for polarization between attitudes or perceptions of naive enthusiasm and cynical resistance towards the use of computers and computer networks, and for such related concepts as ‘the informa...