Peer reviewed articles by Sandra Jeppesen
Media and Communication, 2023
In the first datafied pandemic, the production of interactive Covid-19 data maps was intensified ... more In the first datafied pandemic, the production of interactive Covid-19 data maps was intensified by state institutions and corporate media. Maps have been used by states and citizens to understand the advance and retreat of the contagion and monitor vaccine rates. However, the visualisations being used are often based on non-comparable data types across countries, leading to visual misrepresentations. Many pandemic data visualisations have consequently had a negative impact on public debate, contributing to an infodemic of disinformation that has stigmatised marginalised groups and detracted from social justice objectives. Counter to such hegemonic mapping, counter-data maps, produced by marginalised groups, have revealed hidden inequalities, supporting calls for intersectional health justice. This article investigates the ways in which various intersectional global communities have appropriated data, produced counter-data maps, unveiled hidden social realities, and generated more authentic social meanings through emergent counter-data mapping imaginaries. We use a comparative multi-case study, based on a netnography of three Covid-19 data mapping projects, namely Data for Black Lives (US), Indigenous Emergency (Brazil), and CityLab maps (global). Our findings indicate that counter-data mapping imaginaries are deeply embedded in community-oriented notions of spatiality and relationality. Moreover, the cartographic process tends to reflect alternative imaginaries through four key dimensions of data mapping practice-objectives, uses, production, and ownership. We argue that counter-data mapping is the new frontier of digital media activism and community communication, as it extends the projects of data justice and community media activism, generating new practices in the activist repertoire of communicative action.
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International Journal of Communication, 2021
Emerging global social movement and media activist practices are integrating intersectional polit... more Emerging global social movement and media activist practices are integrating intersectional politics into technologically facilitated activism. Based on a multiyear empirical study, this article proposes a preliminary theoretical framework that maps 5 key dimensions of an emergent intersectional technopolitics: (1) intersectional anticapitalist politics enacted in meta-issue movements; (2) distributed online–offline media
architectures and motility; (3) multiplicities of genres, forms, technologies, and spaces; (4) translocal solidarity economies and technologies; and (5) liberatory intersectional mechanisms of collective autonomy. The author argues that intersectional technopolitics is an innovative and complex set of coherent global social movement and media activist practices rooted in meta-issue movements integrated with transmedia digital technologies. The article concludes with a critical analysis of contradictions encountered by intersectional technopolitics activists as they interact with the structures of broader social movements, social media technologies, and societal hierarchies.
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Dialogical Communication, 2019
This dialogic autoethnography, in which the authors reflect on their experiences as settlers who ... more This dialogic autoethnography, in which the authors reflect on their experiences as settlers who have researched with Indigenous communities, maps four paradoxes settler researchers need to negotiate in decolonizing research. The term “settler fragility” signals a settler positioning of innocence in colonization, which simultaneously recenters colonial power to secure settler futures. In research, settler fragility must be confronted through four paradoxes: (1) the paradox of learning Indigenous worldviews in a profound way, but without appropriation; (2) the paradox of unsettling research by undoing colonial epistemologies in which settlers problematically aim to feel settled; (3) the paradox of reconciling research to improve relationships with Indigenous communities, which can lead to reconciling settlers with their place in colonialism, rather than with Indigenous research partners; and (4) the paradox of decolonizing research in which settler research in colonial universities is recognized as incommensurate with decolonization and yet must be undertaken to decolonize the university. Contributing a tentative set of settler research practices, this paper aims to expand dialogues about how settlers can overcome settler fragility through negotiating the four paradoxes of decolonizing research to develop authentic relationships with Indigenous communities, researchers and research partners.
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Media, Culture, & Society, 2020
The Indymedia network is recognized for its open-editorial platform, as well as its prefigurative... more The Indymedia network is recognized for its open-editorial platform, as well as its prefigurative combination of technological tactics and organizational strategies. In this article, we discuss the legacy of Indymedia in countries not often focalized in the network or in the scholarly literature, namely Brazil and Spain. These countries were chosen to address gaps in the literature regarding Indymedia-influenced adaptations of horizontal media practices established in peripheral spaces such as Latin America and the so-called ‘Global South of Europe’. This research is based on data sets from two empirical research projects comprised of 37 semi-structured interviews in Spain and Brazil. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and comparatively analyzed using NVivo. Media activist practices challenge the reductionist binary that situates information and communication technologies (ICTs) as either deterministically revolutionary or intrinsically complicit with capitalism. In this context, using Midia Ninja in Brazil and XNet in Spain as case studies, we argue that Indymedia has had an impact on technological innovations adopted by contemporary intersectional social movement media projects in the global south, critically analyzing ways in which media activist projects have resisted exogenous and endogenous intersectional inequalities through developing specific organizational structures and practices. We find that intersectional practices related to the anti-capitalist technopolitics of Indymedia have both shaped and been shaped by specific dimensions of digital technologies. We argue that in alternative media practices, intersectionality and anti-capitalist technopolitics have emerged together as intertwined legacies of Indymedia.
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Interface, 2018
This paper presents results of a co-research project with autonomous media activists to analyze t... more This paper presents results of a co-research project with autonomous media activists to analyze the challenges they face when mobilizing resources, and the myriad strategies they deploy to overcome these challenges. Drawing on qualitative data from six focus groups with eighty-nine media activists, and sixteen semi-structured interviews, four key media practices emerge. First, we find that media activists cultivate funding sources based on ethical relationship building. Second, they negotiate a complex ethics of paid vs. unpaid labour practices. Third, they mobilize a wealth of immaterial or intangible resources. Fourth, they develop innovative anti-oppression media practices challenging intersectional systemic oppressions. We argue it is imperative to engage intersectionality in conjunction with political economy to deepen our understanding of autonomous media resource practices, as intersectional anti-oppression strategies can contribute to sustainability.
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In this paper, I critically analyze four key conceptual frames for understanding contemporary aut... more In this paper, I critically analyze four key conceptual frames for understanding contemporary autonomous digital media movements—translocal organizing, transmedia mobilizations, intersectionality, and the political economy of autonomous media. I argue that intersectionality theory is fundamental to our understanding of the online and offline actions of contemporary digital movements, and we must therefore critically analyze and account for the ways in which social movement and media activists use intersectionality in their organizing and media work. Further we must better understand how activists themselves articulate and attempt to mitigate and shift the political economies, organizational structures, media affordances, and economic exigencies of intersectional autonomous media. While these intersectional media commitments and practices are not without their challenges—complex challenges and contradictions that will be explored below—I nonetheless contend that they have been key to the success of many current social movements at the forefront of social change today. Finally I argue that the integration of intersectional politics with new technological affordances and innovations has created a key framework—intersectional technopolitics—for understanding the hybridity of digital media and social movements as part of our contemporary technosocial assemblage.
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Media activists who are women, queer, trans, Indigenous and/or people of colour are shifting medi... more Media activists who are women, queer, trans, Indigenous and/or people of colour are shifting mediascapes through intersectional autonomous journalism practices. This community-based co-research project analyses data from six semi-structured focus group workshops with media activists, who identify a contradictory logic between mainstream and alternative journalism. Two distinct autonomous journalism practices emerge that complement and extend traditional horizontal prefigurative media activist practices through an attentiveness to intersectional identities and interlocking systems of oppression. In rooted direct-action journalism, grassroots autonomous journalists collectively report from a perspective rooted in the concerns of the movement, creating media as a direct-action tactic; whereas in solidarity journalism, autonomous journalists report across movements in solidarity with intersectionally marginalised groups and communities. We argue that, emphasising intersectional mutual aid, relationship building, consent, accountability and content co-creation, these value-based practices have begun to shift dominant media and cultural logics. Finally, we offer critical reflections on some of the challenges inherent in these practices, including a meta-analysis of the intersectional value practices in our activist co-research methodology.
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Democratic Communiqué, 2016
Alternative media is a term that signifies a range of media forms and practices , from radical cr... more Alternative media is a term that signifies a range of media forms and practices , from radical critical media to independent media, and from grassroots autonomous media to community, citizen and participatory media. This paper critically analyzes the political content and organizational practices of different alternative media types to reveal the ideologies and conceptions of power embedded in specific conceptions of alternative media. Considering several competing conceptions of alternative media theory, including subcul-ture studies (Hebdige 1979), community media for social change (Rodríguez 2011), critical communication studies (Fuchs 2010), and radical media (Downing 2001), four distinct categories emerge: DIY media influenced by individualist ideologies and subcultural belonging; citizen media theorized by third-world Marxism and engaged in local community organizing; critical media influenced by the Frankfurt School of critical theory and focused on global anti-capitalist content; and autonomous media influenced by social anarchism and rooted in global anti-authoritarian social movements. This synthesized taxonomy provides an important mapping of key similarities and differences among the diverse political projects, theories, practices and ideologies of alternative media, allowing for a more comprehensive and nuanced
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This article presents findings from an empirical study of repertoires of contention and communica... more This article presents findings from an empirical study of repertoires of contention and communication engaged during anti-austerity protests by the Indignados in Spain, the precarious generation in Italy, and the Aganaktismenoi in Greece. Drawing on 60 semi-structured interviews with activists and independent media producers involved in the 2011 wave of contention, we bring together social movement and communications theoretical frameworks to present a comparative critical analysis of digital protest media imaginaries. After examining the different socio-political and protest media contexts of the three countries translocally, our critical analysis emphasizes the emergence of three different imaginaries: in Spain the digital protest media imaginary was technopolitical, grounded in the politics and political economies of communication technologies emerging from the free culture movement; in Italy this imaginary was techno-fragmented, lacking cohesion, and failed to bring together old and new protest media logics; and finally in Greece it was techno-pragmatic, envisioned according to practical objectives that reflected the diverse politics and desires of media makers rather than the strictly technological or political affordances of the digital media forms and platforms. This research reveals how pivotal the temporal and geographical dimensions are when analyzed using theoretical perspectives from both communications and social movement research; moreover it emphasizes the importance of studying translocal digital protest media imaginaries as they shape movement repertoires of contention and communication; both elements are crucial to better understanding the challenges, limitations, successes and opportunities for digital protest media.
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The Media Action Research Group (MARG) is an antiauthoritarian, profeminist (antiracist, anticolo... more The Media Action Research Group (MARG) is an antiauthoritarian, profeminist (antiracist, anticolonial, queer, trans and anti-capitalist) group of activist-researchers both inside and outside the university,
studying autonomous social movement media activism in Canada and beyond. In this article we map a taxonomy of activist-research, illustrating how MARG brings together five specific methodologies—activist-led issue-based research, militant participatory ethnography, feminist community research, prefigurative antiauthoritarian feminist participatory action research (PAFPAR), and autonomous media research—to study how women, people of colour, queer and trans people, and Indigenous people in antiauthoritarian or anarchist leaning social movements are using grassroots media to support and report on these movements. We find that although MARG set out to create an antiauthoritarian research-activist collective, we are restricted in some ways by the intensification of neoliberalism in the university institution. Nonetheless we are able to conduct transgressive research at the intersection between antiauthoritarian activism and the academy, producing three direct and immediate impacts: within social movements, within media activism, and within the university.
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Situating grassroots autonomous media within complex contemporary media ecologies and protest mov... more Situating grassroots autonomous media within complex contemporary media ecologies and protest movements, this article uses resilience theory to critically analyse the characteristics generative of adaptive capacity in alternative media. The organizing structures, decision-making processes and social movement strategies of two case studies – Concordia University TV (CUTV) and the Montreal Media Co-op – are analysed using online self-produced media materials and participant observation during the 2012 Quebec Student Strike. Both groups have existed for more than ten years, achieving a balance between anti-authoritarian militant activist culture and formal organizational structure. We find they are open to remediation and reconfiguration as needed, including adapting new technologies and organizing journalism teams and peer-to-peer training of volunteers. In addition, these forms of ‘direct action journalism’ exhibit professionalism beyond the basic amateurism of most citizen journalism. Some of the characteristics of grassroots autonomous media production in which resilience may be cultivated include anti-authoritarian militant spaces such as CUTV’s media lab, formalized organizational structures with mixed funding models such as the Media Co-op’s multi-stakeholder cooperative, and deeper relationships and networks with social movements exhibited by both, including reconfigured horizontal relationships among media producers and users.
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Journal of Media Practice, Apr 1, 2014
A participatory action research study of anti-authoritarian activist media practices in Quebec, C... more A participatory action research study of anti-authoritarian activist media practices in Quebec, Canada was carried out by the Collectif de Recherche sur l’Autonomie Collective. Analysing interviews from 117 participants in nine activist groups and networks, we have found that grassroots anti-authoritarian
and anarchist activists engage in a diversity of media tactics, choosing tools consistent with their desired goals and audiences. These goals can be grouped into four categories: developing affinity, creating social movement spaces, mass
mobilizations and global solidarity. These communicative tactics in the activist ‘repertoire of communication’ are informed by several important commitments to alternative content and processes, including collective self-representation,
prefigurative politics and accessibility. We conclude that grassroots autonomous activists sometimes limit the reach of their media to create safer spaces, or to deepen and extend their political analysis, and they sometimes produce media
for wider audiences, for local mass mobilizations or to develop global relationships of solidarity. This deepens our understanding of the specific diversity of tactics developed by grassroots autonomous media activists in their repertories
of communicative action, challenging received notions that anarchist or antiauthoritarian media only ever reach a limited audience.
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Ephemera: theory & politics in organization, Jan 5, 2015
Analyzing the anarchist commons in Montreal, Canada using participatory action research interview... more Analyzing the anarchist commons in Montreal, Canada using participatory action research interviews with 127 participants, we find that anti-authoritarian groups and networks addressing disparate but connected struggles are building an anarchist commons, constructing a loose grouping of spaces, networks and collectives united by a shared political culture. Key debates are explored, centering on: intentional development of the commons; mixed labour models; and anti-oppression practices of calling in vs. calling out. Participants indicate an understanding of the anarchist commons through theories and practices beyond capitalism, including feminist, queer, trans and anti-racist commitments. Finally we argue that the shared anti-authoritarian political culture provides a certain resistance to enclosure of the anarchist commons through the processes and practices used to construct it.
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Topia, Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Sep 1, 2012
In April 2010, the University of Toronto announced receipt of a thirty-five million dollar donati... more In April 2010, the University of Toronto announced receipt of a thirty-five million dollar donation from the Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundation to fund a new institute, to be named the Munk School of Global Affairs. This donation is emblematic of the intensifying neoliberalization of university governance in Canada, and critical responses to it have been twofold. Faculty members have suggested that academic freedom—an important principle that protects researchers from censorship, termination and other institutional pressures— is at risk. Students, on the other hand, have drawn attention to the source of Munkʼs capital, pointing to his role as CEO of Barrick Gold, and to recent accounts of human rights abuses in Barrickʼs mining practices. In practice, however, we have found that both academic freedom and human rights are arguably less available to people in some specific global and social locations. This article will critically analyze the discourses of
academic freedom in Canada in relation to human rights discourses in the global South. Using anti-authoritarian intersectionality theory, we argue that in both instances the systems of oppression and exclusion are part of the same logic of global neoliberalism, inflected by intersectionally
hierarchical practices of capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism. To conclude, we look briefly at alternative knowledge-production sites that strive for horizontalism in pedagogies, research and governance, and that attempt to eliminate hierarchies by experimenting with real practices of equality—practices that are fundamental to the accessibility of academic freedom.
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The present article contributes to the Zapruder World issue on “Transformations Without Revolutio... more The present article contributes to the Zapruder World issue on “Transformations Without Revolutions” by documenting the work of (pro)feminist activists in the building of an antiauthoritarian movement in the province of Quebec, Canada, during the first decade of the 21st century. This antiauthoritarian movement, which was consolidated in the wake of the Global justice movement, is guided by values that are based on a common ethical compass. The latter is grounded in a vision of anarchism as a process that prefigures, in the here and now, a society based on collective autonomy. Revolution is thus not perceived as a linear process ending with a final moment where State power is seized, but rather as a continuous, open-ended process where immediate changes in people’s ideas and practices contribute to the creation of a better society. We identify micro-cohorts of activists composed of radical feminists, radical queers, and feminists and (pro)feminists involved in struggles against racism and colonialism as being at the forefront of experiments with this process of self-determination and self-organization. These micro-cohorts contribute by engaging in a process of pollination that enables the dissemination of ideas and practices in different spaces within the antiauthoritarian movement and other social movements in Quebec. Our analysis is the result of research carried out within the Research Group on Collective Autonomy (CRAC), a (pro)feminist and antiauthoritarian affinity group that has been documenting its own movement using a participatory action research methodology.
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Canadian woman studies, 2012
Composed of collectives, groups and networks active in various struggles, the antiauthoritarian m... more Composed of collectives, groups and networks active in various struggles, the antiauthoritarian movement, which was consolidated in Quebec in the wake of the Global justice movement is guided by values that are based on a common ethical compass. The latter is based on a vision of anarchism as a process that prefigures, in the here and now, a society based on collective autonomy. this chapter documents the work of activists involved in three micro-cohorts of the anti-authoritarian movement, and who are the forefront of the development of practices fro self-determination and self-organization. these micro-cohorts, composed of radical feminist, and (pro)feminists, radical queers, and feminist and (pro)feminists involves in struggles against racism and colonialism, contribute to achieving this goal through a process of pollination that enables the dissemination of practices in different spaces. This analysis is the result of the research carried out within the Research Group on Collective autonomy (CRAC). CRAC is a (pro)feminist and anti-authoritarian affinity group that has been documenting its own movement using a participatory action research methodology.
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Lien social et Politiques , 2012
Il est généralement admis que les pays occidentaux connaissent en leur sein une désaffection cito... more Il est généralement admis que les pays occidentaux connaissent en leur sein une désaffection citoyenne sans précédent. Si le faible taux de participation électorale témoigne du désabusement actuel face à la politique des partis, on
note également une diminution de l’implication dans certains milieux associatifs comme le mouvement syndical ou les groupes communautaires1. Pourtant, les initiatives militantes qui prennent forme à l’extérieur des voies de participation
institutionnalisées se multiplient. Au Québec, après le moment fort de contestation qu’a représenté le Sommet des Amériques de 2001.
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Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, 2011
Mapping types of anarchist literature, its modes of production and typical tropes and themes, thi... more Mapping types of anarchist literature, its modes of production and typical tropes and themes, this paper argues that there is a consistency in values produced through modes of production and both content and form in anarchist literature. Furthermore there are two functions of anarchist texts: interventionist representations, in which anarchists interrupt the dominant image machinery, and cultural prefiguration whereby anarchist values are engaged within the text, prefiguring the society we are building through our actions. Anarchist literature thereby both reflects and produces a model for the project of becoming anarchist, a literary expression of the always-incomplete permanent anarchist revolution.
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Anarchist Studies (UK), 2011
This paper takes a personal and theoretical approach to the politics of guerrilla text production... more This paper takes a personal and theoretical approach to the politics of guerrilla text production by the loose-knit group of ex-workers know only a crimthInc., situation the texts in a predominantly white middle-class North American social context, considering questions of post-punk economics and the 'disavowal of the economic' from Bourdieu, post-situationist politics, anti-capitalist modes of textual production and distribution, and anarchy as anti-ideology. Following this mapping CrimethInc.'s texts, the paper analyses notions of privilege an oppression along the intersecting axes of class, gender, sexual orientation, whiteness and race in CrimthInc.'s texts and the punk subcultures from which they emerge.
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Sexualities, 2010
Global anarchist movements and queer politics are integrating in mutually informing ways. The cha... more Global anarchist movements and queer politics are integrating in mutually informing ways. The characteristics of this synthesis include liberatory theories and practices of embodied genders and sexualities in private and public, direct actions to visibilize and extend queer publics, and queer intersections with capitalism, the environment, race, disability, public space, private property and citizenship, among others. This article
will critically analyze three cases of anti-consumerist vomiting, including an erotic performance, a punk zine, and a Pink Panthers direct action, to investigate the politics of queer anarchist autonomous publics that extend the anti-homophobic and ant-iheteronormative politics of queer counterpublics toward challenging homonormativity through intersectional anti-oppression and liberatory value-practices.
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architectures and motility; (3) multiplicities of genres, forms, technologies, and spaces; (4) translocal solidarity economies and technologies; and (5) liberatory intersectional mechanisms of collective autonomy. The author argues that intersectional technopolitics is an innovative and complex set of coherent global social movement and media activist practices rooted in meta-issue movements integrated with transmedia digital technologies. The article concludes with a critical analysis of contradictions encountered by intersectional technopolitics activists as they interact with the structures of broader social movements, social media technologies, and societal hierarchies.
studying autonomous social movement media activism in Canada and beyond. In this article we map a taxonomy of activist-research, illustrating how MARG brings together five specific methodologies—activist-led issue-based research, militant participatory ethnography, feminist community research, prefigurative antiauthoritarian feminist participatory action research (PAFPAR), and autonomous media research—to study how women, people of colour, queer and trans people, and Indigenous people in antiauthoritarian or anarchist leaning social movements are using grassroots media to support and report on these movements. We find that although MARG set out to create an antiauthoritarian research-activist collective, we are restricted in some ways by the intensification of neoliberalism in the university institution. Nonetheless we are able to conduct transgressive research at the intersection between antiauthoritarian activism and the academy, producing three direct and immediate impacts: within social movements, within media activism, and within the university.
and anarchist activists engage in a diversity of media tactics, choosing tools consistent with their desired goals and audiences. These goals can be grouped into four categories: developing affinity, creating social movement spaces, mass
mobilizations and global solidarity. These communicative tactics in the activist ‘repertoire of communication’ are informed by several important commitments to alternative content and processes, including collective self-representation,
prefigurative politics and accessibility. We conclude that grassroots autonomous activists sometimes limit the reach of their media to create safer spaces, or to deepen and extend their political analysis, and they sometimes produce media
for wider audiences, for local mass mobilizations or to develop global relationships of solidarity. This deepens our understanding of the specific diversity of tactics developed by grassroots autonomous media activists in their repertories
of communicative action, challenging received notions that anarchist or antiauthoritarian media only ever reach a limited audience.
academic freedom in Canada in relation to human rights discourses in the global South. Using anti-authoritarian intersectionality theory, we argue that in both instances the systems of oppression and exclusion are part of the same logic of global neoliberalism, inflected by intersectionally
hierarchical practices of capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism. To conclude, we look briefly at alternative knowledge-production sites that strive for horizontalism in pedagogies, research and governance, and that attempt to eliminate hierarchies by experimenting with real practices of equality—practices that are fundamental to the accessibility of academic freedom.
note également une diminution de l’implication dans certains milieux associatifs comme le mouvement syndical ou les groupes communautaires1. Pourtant, les initiatives militantes qui prennent forme à l’extérieur des voies de participation
institutionnalisées se multiplient. Au Québec, après le moment fort de contestation qu’a représenté le Sommet des Amériques de 2001.
will critically analyze three cases of anti-consumerist vomiting, including an erotic performance, a punk zine, and a Pink Panthers direct action, to investigate the politics of queer anarchist autonomous publics that extend the anti-homophobic and ant-iheteronormative politics of queer counterpublics toward challenging homonormativity through intersectional anti-oppression and liberatory value-practices.
architectures and motility; (3) multiplicities of genres, forms, technologies, and spaces; (4) translocal solidarity economies and technologies; and (5) liberatory intersectional mechanisms of collective autonomy. The author argues that intersectional technopolitics is an innovative and complex set of coherent global social movement and media activist practices rooted in meta-issue movements integrated with transmedia digital technologies. The article concludes with a critical analysis of contradictions encountered by intersectional technopolitics activists as they interact with the structures of broader social movements, social media technologies, and societal hierarchies.
studying autonomous social movement media activism in Canada and beyond. In this article we map a taxonomy of activist-research, illustrating how MARG brings together five specific methodologies—activist-led issue-based research, militant participatory ethnography, feminist community research, prefigurative antiauthoritarian feminist participatory action research (PAFPAR), and autonomous media research—to study how women, people of colour, queer and trans people, and Indigenous people in antiauthoritarian or anarchist leaning social movements are using grassroots media to support and report on these movements. We find that although MARG set out to create an antiauthoritarian research-activist collective, we are restricted in some ways by the intensification of neoliberalism in the university institution. Nonetheless we are able to conduct transgressive research at the intersection between antiauthoritarian activism and the academy, producing three direct and immediate impacts: within social movements, within media activism, and within the university.
and anarchist activists engage in a diversity of media tactics, choosing tools consistent with their desired goals and audiences. These goals can be grouped into four categories: developing affinity, creating social movement spaces, mass
mobilizations and global solidarity. These communicative tactics in the activist ‘repertoire of communication’ are informed by several important commitments to alternative content and processes, including collective self-representation,
prefigurative politics and accessibility. We conclude that grassroots autonomous activists sometimes limit the reach of their media to create safer spaces, or to deepen and extend their political analysis, and they sometimes produce media
for wider audiences, for local mass mobilizations or to develop global relationships of solidarity. This deepens our understanding of the specific diversity of tactics developed by grassroots autonomous media activists in their repertories
of communicative action, challenging received notions that anarchist or antiauthoritarian media only ever reach a limited audience.
academic freedom in Canada in relation to human rights discourses in the global South. Using anti-authoritarian intersectionality theory, we argue that in both instances the systems of oppression and exclusion are part of the same logic of global neoliberalism, inflected by intersectionally
hierarchical practices of capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism. To conclude, we look briefly at alternative knowledge-production sites that strive for horizontalism in pedagogies, research and governance, and that attempt to eliminate hierarchies by experimenting with real practices of equality—practices that are fundamental to the accessibility of academic freedom.
note également une diminution de l’implication dans certains milieux associatifs comme le mouvement syndical ou les groupes communautaires1. Pourtant, les initiatives militantes qui prennent forme à l’extérieur des voies de participation
institutionnalisées se multiplient. Au Québec, après le moment fort de contestation qu’a représenté le Sommet des Amériques de 2001.
will critically analyze three cases of anti-consumerist vomiting, including an erotic performance, a punk zine, and a Pink Panthers direct action, to investigate the politics of queer anarchist autonomous publics that extend the anti-homophobic and ant-iheteronormative politics of queer counterpublics toward challenging homonormativity through intersectional anti-oppression and liberatory value-practices.
increasingly conducted empirical research within social movements as
research activists in order to document, understand, and archive knowledge
about social movements and media activism. While this trend allows
for more directly experiential empirical research findings, it has also raised
a host of ethical questions related to the exercise of power in research practices aiming to create equitable relations. Faced with this changing researchscape, participatory researchers are integrating a consideration of these questions into their research design and practice, with new approaches to ethics protocols, relationship building, discourses, and processes emerging.
incrementally to rival that of much larger news organizations, with viewership over 10,000 on peak nights. Mainstream news stations have been lifting CUTV’s footage from the internet, interviewing their reporters, and have now started to enter into agreements to obtain footage (Shingler, May 24, 2012). What makes CUTV’s coverage so unique?