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SUMMARY:GDI Lecture: The politics of complaint: Digitalizing discontent\,
  in Bangladesh and beyond
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DESCRIPTION:The first quarter of the 21st century has seen so many mass p
 rotest movements that popular discontent barely registers any more. It m
 ay be no coincidence that digital platforms for registering discontent h
 ave simultaneously proliferated in tandem\, from the ‘free speech’ platf
 orms of social media to the highly constrained mechanisms for grievance 
 redress operated by a growing number of governments and public agencies.
  How should we understand the growth and uptake of platforms for complai
 nt at a time when people appear ever more willing to take to the streets
  to voice their anger? And what do these mechanisms tell us about the ch
 anging nature of the relationship between citizens and their states? Thi
 s talk will draw on evidence from Bangladesh\, where an increasingly aut
 horitarian government is pushing a ‘Smart’ agenda of digital dialogue be
 tween people and public authorities. It will ask why governments\, many 
 of which are decreasingly democratic in their practices and ideals\, inv
 est heavily in ways of listening to their people. It will reflect on why
  it is so difficult to make an effective complaint\, why governments are
  investing in these – often farcically bad – systems. And finally\, it w
 ill evaluate the prospects for development of more effective\, democrati
 c\, and people-focused systems of complaint. \n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G32\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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