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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"counterpublic"”.
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Geographies of Feminist Activism in Berlin and Dublin: Hybrid Feminist Counterpublic Spaces of Resistance
… 2016-18). A conceptualisation of feminist hybrid counterpublic spaces was developed to offer ways of thinking about how feminisms form in place, with increasing digitisation and opportunities to enact feminist politics across new technologies. The three main case studies reveal how feminist …
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Raptivism: the Act of Hip Hop’s Counterpublic Sphere Forming into a Social Movement to Seize its Political Opportunities
… scholarship of hip hop (musicology), rhetoric (counterpublic spheres), politics and social movement theory intertwine, and to demonstrate how hip hop’s community can emerge as a counterpublic sphere that could become a social movement capable of altering the current cultural and political …
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Intersectional subaltern counterpublics: UndocuQueer online activism and testimonios
… use of social media as one type of subaltern counterpublic. Subaltern counterpublics are spaces marginalized communities forge to center their voices and experiences. These counterpublics represent aggregations of emancipatory agency and stand as responses to their exclusion or marginalization …
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Into the Mainstream: Independent Film and Video Counterpublics and Television in Britain, 1974–1990
… largely concerned with creating and circulating counterpublic discourses. These counterpublic discourses consolidated and expanded oppositional groups, and set out to change aspects of society as a whole. The thesis gives an account of the diversity of the influences on independent film and …
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Queer Digital Community: An Analysis of Twitter Counterpublics
… on Twitter utilize the platform to create a counterpublic - a group of strangers linked by a shared oppositional discourse to the dominant public discourse. To answer this, I compare the interaction patterns and thematic content of queer tweets with a previously identified Twitter …
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Sweating for democracy: working-class media and the struggle for 'hegemonic Jewishness,' 1919-1941
… examines the history of the Jewish working class counterpublic in the United States during the interwar period and its relationships to the broader public sphere. Between 1919 and 1941, organic intellectuals, such as B.C. Vladeck, J.B.S. Hardman, Fannia Cohn, and Morris Novik, employed strategies …
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Understanding the Confluence of Online Islamism and Counterpublicity: An Ideological Study of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Rhetoric in Ikhwanweb
… to examine Ikhwanweb's potential as a tool for counterpublic expression under President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime. My analysis unearths a Counterpublic Cyber Islamic worldview characterized by endemic dialectical tensions. These dialectics point to four core elements: (a) distrust …
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Neoplatonic identities : literary representation and the politics of Queen Henrietta Maria's court circle
… that the Queen's court masques promoted a 'counterpublic' space inside the court from which ideas independent of King Charles's own policies could be expressed. I investigate Henrietta Maria's involvement in international current affairs, illustrating how her political alignments could be …
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I write what we like: A textual analysis of Fallist microblogging
… that Fallists form an “emerging networked counterpublic” made up of individual activists that enact everyday forms of resistance on Twitter (Jackson & Foucault Welles, 2016:399). This dissertation explores the use of Twitter by a microblogger who has emerged organically as a “crowdsourced …
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Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions of the Transgender Body in the 21st Century
… phenomenology and affect, what constitutes a counterpublic, and what digital embodiment means for gender identity and expression. In addition to an ethnography, the thesis includes an autoethnography of my time spend on the microblogging website Tumblr from 2012-2015 and how it played into my …
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Becoming la raza: Chican@ counterpublicity and rhetorics of the Viet Nam War
… circulated, amplified, and visualized in Chican@ counterpublic spaces, where resistance to dominant and hegemonic discourse(s) undergirding political life occurs in earnest, raza rhetorics proliferated across the Southwest United States at the end of the 1960s as a coincident feature of Chican@ …
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The divergent archive and androcentric counterpublics: Public rhetorics, memory, and archives
… However, rhetorical theory on publics and counterpublics tends not to articulate how groups persuade others of their status as mainstream or marginal. Scholars of public/counterpublic theory have not yet adequately examined the mechanisms through which rhetorical resources play a role in …
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"If It Is Sincere, It Will Rouse Hostility": The Freewoman, Feminisms, and Print Culture in Early Twentieth-Century England
… The Freewoman also as creating a queer space or counterpublic, in the sense of challenging normativity in a range of areas.
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Reparative Preservation through Immersive 3D Documentation: Cultural Memory, Spatial Justice, and Gullah Geechee Futures on Daufuskie Island
… Speculative Design, Counter Cartography, Counterpublic, Spatial Justice, Oral History, Afrofuturism, Digital Public, Digital/ Web Archive, Cultural Stewardship, Ethical Design, Participatory Design, Underground Rail Road, Return
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Making Fenians: The Transnational Constitutive Rhetoric of Revolutionary Irish Nationalism, 1858-1876
… and newspaper arguments of the Fenian counterpublic. It argues two main points. First, the separate national constraints imposed by England and the United States necessitated discursive and non-discursive rhetorical responses in each locale that made it near impossible to sustain …
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Selling a Feeling: New Approaches Toward Recent Gay Chicano Authors and Their Audience
… as their Chicana feminist counterparts, a counterpublic that has given voice not only to themselves as authors, but also to countless readers who see themselves reflected in their texts. One of the strengths of the Chicana feminist movement is that they have not only produced their own …
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Actually Existing Democracy and Energy Justice: The Case of the Coalfields Delegation to the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development
… and then discuss the nature and roles of counterpublics, specifically the Coalfields Delegation, in transnational justice. I then explore Fraser's constructs of redistribution, recognition, and representation, viewing each through Bourdieu's theories of habitus and field. I show that the …
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Children's Music, MP3 Players, and Expressive Practices at a Vermont Elementary School: Media Consumption as Social Organization among Schoolchildren
… genres and media devices, represent a burgeoning counterpublic, whose expressions of solidarity and group affiliation are increasingly deferred to by mainstream artists and the entertainment industry. We appear to be witnessing the culmination of a process set in motion almost seventy years ago, …
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Gender, Class and Cinephilia: Parisian Cinema Cultures, 1918-1925
… film communities that formed what I call a “counterpublic.” All the dissertation chapters thus deal with key moments and sites of negotiation between, on the one hand, elitist, intellectualising and national bourgeois cinephile critics and filmmakers, and on the other hand, a heterogeneous …
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