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2019, New Formations
Futurist Alvin Toffler and critical theorist and historian Michel Foucault both referenced the interface of consumption and production – 'prosumption' – around 1980 in considerably different ways. Whereas Toffler focused on the empirical basis of prosumption at a time of structural unemployment and customised demand, Foucault's rendition was discursive and focused on the subjective dimension of prosumption under neoliberal governance. This article engages both contextual and subjective dimensions of prosumption in the context of digital life in the new millennium. Literature to date has emphasised prosumption from the vantage point of digital consumers, whose daily internet activity produces profit for firms while consumers receive no compensation for the data they produce and thereby are dispossessed of the fruits of their free labour – a perverse dimension of prosumption in the digital era. I extend the notion of dispossessed prosumption from the realm of digital consu...
[English abstract follows.] Μέσω συνομιλιών με ακτιβίστριες/ακτιβιστές ανιχνεύω εννοιολογήσεις συνυφασμένων καταπιέσεων και αντιστάσεων στο λεσβιακό, ομοφυλόφιλο/γκέι, αμφισεξουαλικό, τρανς και κουίρ (ΛΟΑΤΚ) πολιτικό χώρο στην Αθήνα και τη Θεσσαλονίκη. Σημείο αφετηρίας είναι η χρήση και η σημασιοδότηση στους ΛΟΑΤΚ λόγους του όρου «ρατσισμός» ως υπερτασσόμενη έννοια και τις επιμέρους κατηγοριοποιήσεις του, ιδιαίτερα την «ομοφοβία» και την «τρανσφοβία». Πως σχετίζεται ο «ρατσισμός» με την αναδυόμενη στα ελλαδικά συμφραζόμενα έννοια της «διαθεματικότητας» [intersectionality]; Πως ορίζουν την αναφορική έκταση και τα σημασιολογικά περιεχόμενα των εν προκειμένω όρων οι ακτιβίστριες/ακτιβιστές και βάσει ποιων βιωματικών γνώσεων και κινηματικών στρατιγηκών; Πως αυτές οι έννοιες και τα θεωρητικά τους υπόβαθρα αντικατοπτρίζουν ή και καθοδηγούν την πολιτική τους αντίσταση στη διάχυτη βία που εντοπίζουν στο εσωτερικό και στα σύνορα της ελληνικής κοινωνίας; Ποια είδη εν δυνάμει συμμαχιών επιτρέπουν ή προλαμβάνουν οι διαφορικές συνειδητοποιήσεις, εννοιολογήσεις και περιγραφές των πολλαπλών, ταυτόχρονων και συνυφασμένων καταπιέσεων; Προσεγγίζοντας αυτά τα ερωτήματα, ιχνηλατώ τους τρόπους με τους οποίους οι συνομιλήτριες/συνομιλητές μου παράγουν θεωρίες μέσω των οποίων διαφαίνονται, εξηγούνται και αμφισβητούνται οι κοινωνικές συνθήκες ρατσιστικής, ετεροκανονικής και έμφυλης βίας που οι ίδιες/ίδιοι συνταυτίζουν με τους θεσμούς —«πατρίς, θρησκεία, οικογένεια»— που απαρτίζουν το «τρίπτυχο» ή τη «συντακτική της εξουσίας». // Abstract: Through conversations with activists, Ι explore conceptualisations of interwoven oppressions and resistances in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) political spaces in Athens and Thessaloniki. My point of departure is the use and signification of “racism” in LGBTQ discourses as a superordinate concept, as well as that of its subcategories, specifically “homophobia” and “transphobia.” Ηow is this use of “racism” related to the concept of “intersectionality,” now emergent in the Greek context? How do activists define the referential scope and semantic contents of these concepts, based on what knowledges grounded in lived experiences, and on what kinds of social movement strategies? How do these concepts and their theoretical underpinnings reflect or direct activists’ political resistance to the widespread violence that they identify within and on the borders of Greek society? What potential alliances are enabled or prevented by differential consciousnesses, conceptualisations and descriptions of multiple, simultaneous and interwoven oppressions? In approaching these questions, I trace the ways in which my interlocutors produce theories, through which social conditions of racist, heteronormative, and gendered power are made visible, are explained and are contested—conditions that they identify with the institutions —“nation, religion, and family”— that make up the “triptych” or the “syntax of power.”
This is a draft manuscript of a book (to be published) that consists of long interviews with practitioners involved in the SHG movement of West Bengal, India. The work is born out of a problem - how do you record the knowledge that practitioners have on the practical aspects of 'doing' development? They are usually not keen on writing themselves, and scholars who interview them and then write their papers often fail to capture their voices adequately. Hence the method of long in-depth interviews was adopted for this book. The manuscript is shared for knowledge-sharing purposes only. Kindly do not cite without permission.
Has links to the other pieces I have written about the case.
International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science, 2020
Journal of Applied Physics, 2022
African Journal of Biotechnology, 2010
Културни идентитет Азербејџана, 2019
JURNAL RISET KESEHATAN POLTEKKES DEPKES BANDUNG
Academia Revista Sobre Ensenanza Del Derecho De Buenos Aires, 2007
The Journal of Indian Orthodontic Society, 2013
International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology, 1998
Journal of Molecular Structure, 2007