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Networked feminism in a digital age—mobilizing vulnerability and reconfiguring feminist politics in digital activism

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In what ways can we understand the productive tensions and complexities of digital feminist activism? This paper explores the increase of networked feminism, which focuses attention on digital activism and its relation to transformative social change. It suggests that we need a better understanding of how digital feminist activism might be changing the shape of transnational feminist resistance and praxis, and how feminist politics are created and enacted in digitally mediated environments. These result in new forms of feminist consciousness built on affective and embodied engagements. The paper explores the complex and ambivalent role of affective politics and embodied ethics to explore conditions of vulnerability. Using illustrative, global cases to show the nuances across digital activism, the paper contributes to understanding the complexities and differential effects of online environments, the mediation of feminist politics through digital knowledge cultures and the possibilities, challenges, and productive tensions that lie in the ever‐increasing use of digital environments.

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  • Sheena J. Vachhani, 2024. "Networked feminism in a digital age—mobilizing vulnerability and reconfiguring feminist politics in digital activism," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 31(3), pages 1031-1048, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:31:y:2024:i:3:p:1031-1048
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13097
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