Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2021.1969521
J. Hardley, Caitlin McGrane
ABSTRACT Kathleen M Cumiskey’s feminist research on gender, mobile media, safety, vulnerability and grief has spanned across the previous two decades. This interview focuses on three of Cumiskey’s key texts, and suggests how gendered practices of safety, security and intimacy have changed since the introduction of smartphones. It addresses contemporary changes in mobile and social media practices, and how these influence socio-political smartphone uses. Cumiskey discusses the implications of women’s smartphone practices for generating feelings safety and security in public space; how smartphones can both enhance and limit the ways women participate in public space; and how smartphones engender particular expressions of vulnerability, especially in the context of grief and loss. The interview concludes with a discussion of the subversive potential of mobile media and smartphone communications in opening up transformative modes of engaging with others and the world.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2021.1969518
Catherine Archer, Amy Johnson, L. Williams Veazey
ABSTRACT Facebook groups are spaces where women form communities and share their lived experiences. These peer-created and peer-moderated groups have ‘closed’ security settings, indicating that interactions within the group are to be considered private. They attract membership from women who desire safe, ‘trusted’, gender-specific spaces, though as this article demonstrates, these perceived ‘safe spaces’ are often fraught with difficulties. This article considers Facebook groups as intimate spaces which traverse the public and private, potentially allowing women to remove the mask of motherhood and draw on ‘lay-expertise’ and support. Drawing on three studies of closed Facebook groups, for Australian ‘mum bloggers’ and readers, Australian Defence Force partners, and migrant mothers in Australia, this article considers women’s motivations for creating and participating in shielded online spaces, how expectations of privacy and safety in these spaces are created and maintained, and the consequences when these expectations are breached. Situating the groups in the context of societal surveillance of mothers, migrants and military families, and expectations of intensive social reproductive labour, the authors consider both the liberatory potential of the groups and their limitations as vehicles for social change.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2021.1986804
Caitlin McGrane
ABSTRACT In this article, I argue that while smartphones can increase women's capacities to act for themselves and others, smartphones can also act agentially in the interests of corporations and limit women's capacity to act. To make this argument, I consider the value of Rosi Braidotti's [2019. Posthuman Knowledge. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press] posthuman knowledge theory of ‘affirmative ethics’ for understanding women's relationships with their smartphones. Applying a posthuman lens shows how the smartphone can increase women's capacities to affect and be affected [Gatens and Lloyd. 1999. Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present. New York: Routledge]. However, this potential for positive feelings or relations must be considered in light of how the agency of the smartphone itself may interrupt these capacities through data sharing, targeted advertising and other capitalist practices. I argue that we must situate smartphone as part of the messy, incomplete and ongoing process of trying to live well and ethically in the present moment.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2021.1929064
B. Carlson
ABSTRACT ‘Trust in the System’ is contentious, if not spurious for many Indigenous Internet users. ‘Trust’ signifies as a term that embodies (and disembodies) our experiences from over 200 years of colonisation. Research has shown that Indigenous people have typically been early adopters of digital technologies. Over the last decade or so, social media technologies have gradually become a central part of our everyday lives. These platforms offer opportunities to connect across vast distances and diverse populations. They provide a space to express one’s identity, connect with community, learn, play, seek love, organise political action, find lost friends and family, search for employment, seek help in times of need – and much more. Indigenous people have made particular use of social media for agitating for social justice. Information can be distributed, events coordinated and alliances spontaneously forged across great distances largely outside of the surveillance and control of state actors. Assessing the actual impact of online activism is not a straightforward matter – any concept of ‘trust in the system’ demands that we begin to infiltrate that system in order to force ‘it’ to incorporate the views and experiences of Indigenous actors and activists online.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2021.1969519
Amber Marshall
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the digital divide in rural, agricultural Australia impacts women in significant and unexpected ways. Drawing on Marxist feminist perspectives on labour I ask, how do rural farming women access, use and manage digital connections and devices, and what role does gender play in the production of this ‘digital labour’? Based on interviews conducted in Far North Queensland, I provide an account of digital labour in rural farming households showing that women often have more interaction with digital technologies than their male counterparts because they are responsible for domestic activities that are increasingly being conducted online. Women’s consequent greater digital expertise enables them to forge pathways to digital inclusion and self-determination. Further analysis using Ursula Huws' ([2019]. Labour in Contemporary Capitalism: What Next? London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.) typology of labour confirms binary gender-based distribution of digital labour, but problematises how value is assigned to this work, in rural farming households. The research contributes to emergent understandings of digital labour and digital inclusion scholarship in rural contexts.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2020.1902270
L. Pihama
ABSTRACT This article discusses the place of Mana Wahine theory in decolonising gender relationships in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Mana wahine theory is grounded upon and informed by Māori language, practices, protocol and knowledge forms. It is through this lens that we are able more deeply come to understand and theorise issues faced by Māori women and in doing so to reclaim and reassert our place on our own lands. This is both a movement and a theory that has at its centre the resurgence and reaffirmation of the mana of Māori women, past, present and future.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2021.1883987
Jacqueline Dalziell
ABSTRACT Feminist theories of embodiment, particularly those that have emerged from corporeal feminism, have been influenced by the psychoanalytic distinction between the hysterical body and the anatomical body [Wilson, Elizabeth. 2015. Gut Feminism. Durham: Duke University Press]. Following Freud and his concepts of the body ego and somatic compliance, psychoanalytic assertions that the way the body is lived is psychically informed have proven productive to feminist aims. Freud proposes the notion of somatic compliance as the explanatory rationale for hysterical symptomatology’s strange ability to express itself in a manner incommensurable with medical explanation. This article opens and extends those questions raised by the anatomical body that originally perplexed Freud in the case of Dora. In particular, it queries the notion of somatic compliance by asking: what is the character of anatomy such that it can defy and revise its own apparent limits? How can the hysterical body achieve feats that the non-hysterical body cannot? And lastly, what does it mean to comply somatically? In this way, the article responds to the anti-biologism that continues to feature in much feminist scholarship on corporeality.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2021.1919989
Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez
ABSTRACT This article examines the connection between Indigenous women’s bodies, their relationship to land and resistance to resource extraction in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. First, I explore the processes and practices through which natural resource extraction is expanded into the Global South to demonstrate that Indigenous lands are produced as wastelands that only acquire value through settler states’ imposition of land uses and ownership. Second, I show how Indigenous relations to land are simultaneously central to Indigenous struggles against territorial dispossession and Indigenous women’s struggles against gendered violence. Operationalising the concept of ‘body land’, I illustrate how relationships to territory are constituted and fragmented over time, shaping Indigenous women’s embodied experiences and transformational political capacities.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2020.1932414
Molly Ackhurst
There has rightly been wide-spread criticism regarding social media 'black-outs' and 'anti-racist reading lists' representing the be-all and end-all of anti-racist action, or as Phipps puts it in a recent blog2, 'a pre-made panacea' Despite this it is true that for many the process of deconstructing racism must begin with an awareness and critical understanding of individual racialised privilege [ ]though Phipps could not have known at the time, her book #Me, Not You is a lens through which to understand the current activism protesting systems of racial capitalism [ ]she examines the implications of the term 'sexual misconduct', noting that it does not reflect systemic abuses of power, but rather individual sexual behaviour Phipps notes that the propensity towards 'call out culture' and 'naming and shaming' leads to short-term institutional reputational damage, but often little by the way of concrete action to tackle and dismantle systems of sexual oppression
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2020.1902271
Aileen M. Moreton-Robinson
ABSTRACT This article examines the ceramic artwork produced in the 1940s and 1950s by Viola Edith Downing, also known as Brownie Downing. I focus specifically on representations of Australian Aboriginal children, and also consider how Native American and Native Hawaiian children are portrayed on ceramic plates. These plates were purchased for display in the home often as tourist souvenirs that marked the holiday experience. I argue that representations of Indigenous children function discursively within a gendered white colonising possessive aesthetic whereby childhood innocence and happiness operate to erase colonisation and indigenous sovereignties.
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