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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"counterpublics"”.
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Intersectional subaltern counterpublics: UndocuQueer online activism and testimonios
… 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 by the dominant public …
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Queer Digital Community: An Analysis of Twitter Counterpublics
With the growing need for a sociological understanding of behavior on social media platforms, there is a desire to know how marginalized groups engage with these technologies. This study asks whether queer people on Twitter utilize the platform to create a counterpublic - a group of strangers …
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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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Place-based counterpublics: The role of social media in resistance to gentrification in London
… doing so, I develop the concept of place-based counterpublics to conceptualise the ways in which social media is being used by local campaigns. By analysing the role of social media, this PhD’s contribution to knowledge lies in accounting for how social media is situated within broader …
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Into the Mainstream: Independent Film and Video Counterpublics and Television in Britain, 1974–1990
This thesis looks at independent film and video cultures in Britain from the mid 1970s to late 1980s. It examines a period of time in which diverse radical film- and video-makers in Britain contributed towards struggles against capitalism, patriarchy, racism, colonialism and homophobia. New social …
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Emergent publics in the time of unpredictable crackdowns: Feminist counterpublics and testimony-based activism in contemporary Egypt
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Mobilising restless radicals: the #AmINext movement and the formation of feminist digital counterpublics against gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa
… #AmINext. It uses theories of feminist digital counterpublics to show that digital responses to GBV and femicide may be new, but they are connected to histories of women's resistance. This study argues that #AmINext mobilises rage and grievability to contest the assumptions of how GBV and …
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Locating the Indian Gendered Subaltern on Digital Platforms: Digital Activism in #section377 and #metooindia
… of affective networks of empathy and subaltern counterpublics of resistance through the use of protest hashtags in Indian and Indian diasporic communities in Canada. Simultaneously, however, this study illustrates that digital technologies also hinder the amplification of marginalized voices, …
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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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The Politics & Poetics of Audience Creation in Contemporary Epistolary Memoir
… in light of Michael Warner’s “Publics and Counterpublics,” and the social affordances of the epistolary form and self-constructive affordances of life writing are analyzed in tandem as a hybrid epistolary memoir form. Specifically, this project explores how the epistolary memoir form …
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Sweating for democracy: working-class media and the struggle for 'hegemonic Jewishness,' 1919-1941
… that emerge in media production within counterpublics, and posits that other similar case studies are necessary in order develop enlightened strategies to democratize our contemporary media system.
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Taking back the tech: an analysis of take back the S 2015 twitter campaign during 16 days of activism against gender violence
… including feminism, intersectionality, counterpublics, and agenda-setting to investigate TBTT’s tweets and other Twitter users’ responses to the campaign, as suggested by Twitter replies and mentions. During their campaign, TBTT used online activism for both advocacy and mobilisation. …
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Queering Virtual Groups: Exploring Facebook Groups as a space for identity construction and social justice among the LGBTQ community in India
… effects (SIDE), and the theory of counterpublics, this sequential mixed methods research analyzes and presents an understanding of the relationship that exists between social media, identity, LGBTQ community, and the Indian social context. It is hoped that it will add to the …
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PUBLISH AND PERISH: ACADEMIC CANCEL CULTURES, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND NETWORKED ACADEMICS
… epistemic view. These campaigns self-situate as counterpublics while seeking institutional legitimization as an endgame, i.e., the removal of a panel from a conference or the retraction of an article. Consequently, institutional neutrality has become more integral than ever in maintaining the …
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Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation across the Anglo-American World
… actor network theory, critical theorizations of counterpublics and the public sphere, and transnational historiography, the thesis develops four main arguments. First, far from a short-lived burst of Stonewall-era radicalism, gay liberation was a distinct formation of queer activism that …
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The Word of Science: Popularising Darwinism in Romania, 1859-1918
… and the role played by popular knowledge and counterpublics in scientific debates.
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System Override: A Critical Virtual Ethnography of Women of Color's Digital Praxis in Horizon Worlds
… tools for cultural affirmation, and develop counterpublics for collective safety and joy. These acts include avatar remixing, private affinity group formation, event hosting, and mentoring, as well as sustained advocacy for platform reform. The analysis advances a conceptual framework …
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In the Image of a Woman: Spirited Identifications and Embodied Interpellations Along the Betsiboka Valley
… Woman offers a portrait of burgeoning sarimbavy counterpublics in Antananarivo, Mahajanga, and the rural district of Ambato-Boéni. This dissertation charts how these queer networks have flourished within the entangled milieus of possession pilgrimage, the use of an in-group “secret” sociolect, …
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Beside engagement: a queer and feminist reading of socially negotiated art through dialogue, love, and praxis
… embodiment. A number of refractions, including counterpublics and disorientation, recur as important anchor points throughout the research. The subsequent three chapters investigate the “relational material” of socially negotiated art. Each one of them breaks down one of its constitutive …
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Contentious Subjects: Non/violence as Topic and Trope in the Occupy Movement
… demonstrations of previous eras: a) protesting counterpublics often make their appeals immediately and intensively rather than extensively through mass media, b) challenging the status quo more in terms of power (in its aspects of agency, capacity, and possibility) than in claims of justice, and …
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