Women activists imaged through social media publics

Gajjala, Radhika and DeGalan, Anna and Rahut, Debipreeta and Zainab Akbar, Syeda and Jain, Jhalak (2023) Women activists imaged through social media publics. In: Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media. Routledge, London, pp. 106-128. ISBN 9781003365426

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Abstract

This chapter examines how the use of hashtags (#womenofshaheenbah, #sheinspiresus #shaheenbaghprotests) produces affective publics in the context of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA)/National Register of Citizens (NRC) protests in India. Twitter-based public communication made visible the image of the older “subaltern” woman as a nonviolent protestor. Data was collected from December 2019 to April 2020 using Twitter Academic API and visualized for analysis using computational tools such as Gephi and Netlytic. Using the theoretical framework of private (ghar) and public (bahir), a close visual analysis of images of Kasturba Gandhi and Bilkis from Shaheen Bagh was also conducted in order to map the resonances between the two gendered political subjects. In addition, this chapter also draws on interviews with a range of actors including women activists, in order to examine the nuances of how competing affective publics work to mobilize the image of nonviolent older women.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Gajjala, Radhika and DeGalan, Anna and Rahut, Debipreeta and Zainab Akbar, Syeda and Jain, Jhalak
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID Lünenborg, Margreth UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Röttger-Rössler, Birgitt UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Social interaction Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Groups of people Social sciences > Groups of people
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/6859
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003365426-9

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