Political Agency Online

“The first ethnography of social media identity and politics in India, this pathbreaking study allows us a fresh new perspective on the transformation of debate and activism in a new digital world.” Faisal Devji, University of Oxford, UK “In this fascinating study of Indian Muslim online activism, Max Kramer takes us way beyond the usual pieties and polemics about ramped-up affects and endangered civility. Instead, he gives us a meditation, at once subtle and stinging, on the problem of cultivating ethical subjectivity, and thus also livable visibility, in and through a medium that invites marginalized actors to inhabit postures and registers of infamy. This is, in a deep sense, a book about India today. But it is also an invaluable and provocative contribution to debates about democratic activism in an authoritarian age.” William Mazzarella, University of Chicago, USA