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17. The Global Anti-Street Harassment Movement: Digitally-Enabled Feminist Activism

verfasst von : Karen Desborough

Erschienen in: Mediating Misogyny

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Desborough provides an account of the role of digital technologies in enabling the emergence and development of the global anti-street harassment movement. The chapter argues that feminist activists have leveraged the affordances of digital technologies to create, organize, and participate in anti-street harassment activism, thereby facilitating the formation and expansion of the movement. Desborough examines how digital technologies help to, first, reduce the costs of organizing and participating in collective action, and afford women new opportunities to speak about and resist street harassment; second, promote collective identity, which helps to foster and maintain participation; and third, and relatedly, enable the formation of online communities of (primarily) women resisting street harassment.

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Titel: The Global Anti-Street Harassment Movement: Digitally-Enabled Feminist Activism
verfasst von: Karen Desborough
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Mediating Misogyny
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-72916-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-72917-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72917-6_17