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Taina Meriluoto

@meritaina.bsky.social
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Social scientist and ethnographer at the University of Helsinki. Working on democratic theory, (visual) political action and stigma from the perspectives of marginalised youth. She/her.

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Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
For those of you who read Finnish, here's a brief description of what's to come! koneensaatio.fi/apurahat-ja-...
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Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
After 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!
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Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
As 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? 🧵10/10
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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 ✨ 🧵9/10
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Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Incel 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 🧵8/10
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Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Who 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. 🧵7/10
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Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Iris 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. 🧵6/10
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Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Looking 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 👇 🧵5/10
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Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
The 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. 🧵4/10
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Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
To 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. ✨ 🧵3/10
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Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
In 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? 🧵2/10
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Taina Meriluoto @meritaina.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Check 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
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Hans Asenbaum @hansasenbaum.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
New 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
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