Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 08/12/2023For those of you who read Finnish, here's a brief description of what's to come! koneensaatio.fi/apurahat-ja-... 150
Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 08/12/2023After a VERY tough patch of rejections, our project 'Bare activism' was granted funding by The Kone Foundation ✨ Heini Salminen, Emmi Holm and me will have four years to understand how social media norms of authenticity impact the possibilities of political action among marginalised people! 160
Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023As our dessert, Anastasia Kavada, Oliver Escobar & Andrea Cornwall discuss @hansasenbaum.bsky.social 's open access book ‘The Politics of Becoming’. What is 'becoming' for collective identity? Are there perils to anonymity? Can identity be our connections to each other? 🧵10/10berghahnjournals.com 0103
Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023“if I were writing The Politics of Presence today, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t put gender in one chapter, race in another, multiculturalism in yet another”, says Anne Phillips in an interview with @hansasenbaum.bsky.social ✨The Politics of Presence revisited ✨ 🧵9/10berghahnjournals.com 151
Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Incel identities have undergone a remarkable transformation from diversity to exclusion. To prevent identities from becoming undemocratic, it requires attention to moderation techniques and social norms, argues @seejenspeak.bsky.social 🧵8/10berghahnjournals.com 141
Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Who rules in the digital age, asks Rahel Süß in her fabulous article. Drawing inspiration from radical democratic scholarship, she reimagines a digital sovereign that enables ongoing identity construction and transformation. 🧵7/10berghahnjournals.com 131
Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Iris Marion Young is wrongly identified with the politics of presence. Michaele Ferguson reads her work as part of the politics of becoming by focusing on structure rather than identity. 🧵6/10berghahnjournals.com 121
Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Looking at hunger strikes as 'performances of death', Amanda Machin shows how they are a powerful political tool, but also an 'act of political becoming', giving life to new political subjects. ✨ Find the brilliant piece here 👇 🧵5/10berghahnjournals.com 141
Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023The Ranciérian concept of disidentification is purely discursive. To overcome this limitation, @moyalloyd.bsky.social puts forward a novel account of embodied disidentification, exemplified by the feminist Miss America protest of 1968. 🧵4/10berghahnjournals.com 121
Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023To grasp how political subjects change, we also need to understand identity deconstruction, argue Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça & Ângela Cristina Salgueiro Marques. Read how it happened in the Brazilian June Journeys protests and why it is crucial for democracy. ✨ 🧵3/10berghahnjournals.com 121
Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023In the intro, @hansasenbaum.bsky.social & I argue that the politics of presence needs to be combined with the freedom to self-define. How can the politics of presence be developed through performativity? How can democracy do justice to intersectionality? 🧵2/10berghahnjournals.com 131
Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Check out the new OA special issue of Democratic Theory edited by @hansasenbaum.bsky.social & me. ✨DEMOCRATIC SELF-TRANSFORMATIONS ✨ Here's a thread on the stellar contributions. www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... 🧵1/10 1113
Reposted by Taina Meriluoto Hans Asenbaum @hansasenbaum.bsky.social · 10/11/2023New special issue in Democratic Theory with @meritaina.bsky.social ✨DEMOCRATIC SELF-TRANSFORMATIONS✨ Check out the brilliant contributions. It's open access! www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... @moyalloyd.bsky.social 0117