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"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"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The NGO Form: Feminist Struggles, States, and Neoliberalism -- PART I. NGOs Beyond Success or Failure -- Chapter 1. The Movementization of NGOs? Women's Organizing in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Chapter 2. Failed Development and Rural Revolution in Nepal: Rethinking Subaltern Consciousness and Women's Empowerment -- Chapter 3. The State and Women's Empowerment in India: Paradoxes and Politics -- PART II. Postcolonial Neoliberalisms and the NGO Form -- Introduction -- Chapter 4. Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia -- Chapter 5. Resolving a Gendered Paradox: Women's Participation and the NGO Boom in North India -- Chapter 6. Power and Difference in Thai Women's NGO Activism -- Chapter 7. Demystifying Microcredit: The Grameen Bank, NGOs, and Neoliberalism in Bangladesh -- PART III. Feminist Social Movements and NGOs -- Chapter 8. Feminist Bastards: Toward a Posthumanist Critique of NGOization -- Chapter 9. Lived Feminism(s) in Postcommunist Romania -- Chapter 10. Women's Advocacy Networks: The European Union, Women's NGOs, and the Velvet Triangle -- Chapter 11. Beyond NGOization? Reflections from Latin America -- Conclusion. Feminisms and the NGO Form -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Security is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles, CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to Futureproof redirect this focus, showing how security is a sensory domain shaped by affect and image as much as rules and rationalities. They examine security as it is lived and felt in domains as varied as real estate listings, active-shooter drills, border crossings, landslide maps, gang graffiti, and museum exhibits to theorize how security regimes are expressed through aesthetic forms. Taking a global perspective with studies ranging from Jamaica to Jakarta and Colombia to the U.S.-Mexico border, Futureproof expands our understanding of the security practices, infrastructures, and technologies that pervade everyday life.Contributors. Victoria Bernal, Jon Horne Carter, Alexandra Demshock, Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores, Didier Fassin, D. Asher Ghertner, Daniel M. Goldstein, Rachel Hall, Rivke Jaffe, Ieva Jusionyte, Catherine Lutz, Alejandra Leal Martínez, Hudson McFann, Limor Samimian-Darash, AbdouMaliq Simone, Austin Zeiderman