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Samen sporen zoeken van feminisme en verzet
No full textDineke Stam gebruikt een aantal thema’s als kapstokken voor haar boeiende verhaal: samenwerken, sporen en verzet, die ook steeds terugkomen in haar onderzoek en in de verschillende presentaties daarvan. Tijdens haar loopbaan buiten de universiteit hield zij zich bezig met drie belangrijke thema’s: Gender- en Vrouwengeschiedenis, Tweede Wereldoorlog & de Shoah en Kolonialisme & Slavernij, als onderzoeker, tentoonstellingsmaker en in participatieprojecten
What is Left Unseen
No full textIn this article Rosemarie Buikema demonstrates how feminist scholarship has contributed from a variety of perspectives to the study of the dynamics between the subject and the object of knowledge. She in particular shows how she as a Genderstudies scholar has produced new knowledge and insights by means of paying attention to the processes of in- and exclusion, and the accompanying workings of erasure and neglect. She gives the example of an exhibition in which the Museum of Equality and Difference (MOED) re-curated the cultural heritage of abolitionism, giving centre stage to the black, previously enslaved woman Sojourner Truth rather than the white Dutchman Nicolaas Beets
‘Men are by Nature Dogs’: Metaphors in a Newspaper’s Cartoon on the Sexual Abuse of an Underage Girl and in the Readers’ Facebook Comments
No full textFeminist studies in Botswana have so far focused on various aspects of women’s lives and lived experiences but there is scarcity of research on how they are represented in cartoons, specifically how they are conceptualised via misogynistic metaphors. Gender relations are relations of power and conceptual metaphors help us understand how women are talked and thought about and the roles they occupy in heterosexual sex. Drawing on feminist critical discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor theory, this study reports on the findings of one cartoon on the sexual abuse of an underage girl in The Voice newspaper’s cartoon column and in the readers’ Facebook comments on the cartoon. The results show that the readers not only use a lot more sex metaphors than can be found in the cartoon text but varied and dysphemistic ones as well, which dehumanise and objectify the targets. While food metaphors exclusively refer to the sexually abused girl, the male perpetrator and men in general, are metaphorised as ‘dogs’, while women in general, are ‘bitches’. The results show that female readers’ resistance to patriarchal and heteronormative ideologies inadvertently reproduces gender power imbalances and beliefs about women’s sexual availability and men’s sexual insatiability
A Crime that Cannot be Named: Normalisation or Distortion of Incest Victims’ Narratives with #MeTooInceste
No full textIn January 2021, the #MeTooInceste hashtag emerged on French-speaking Twitter, allowing victims of incest to recount their experiences and bring their narratives to light. As the private became public, many defined this movement as a “liberation of speech” (Idoiaga Mondragon, et al., 2022). An extremely taboo subject (Ambroise-Rendu, 2016; Giuliani, 2016), incestuous sexual abuse was suddenly at the heart of the public debate, with politicians and the media commenting on the movement. However, with institutionalisation comes distortion (Ehrlich, 2014). Looking at 1,122 tweets, our comparison of incest testimonies and their reactions on Twitter shows that there is distortion of the victims’ narratives on two aspects: (i) when naming the perpetrator, and (ii) when naming the act. The results show that (i) while victims do name perpetrators, reaction tweets tend to erase them, and (ii) while victims name the act specifically, reactions tend to broaden the subject and talk of sexual abuse in general. The taboo might constrain the content of victims’ testimonies, and institutionalisation distort the narratives, but this movement focused public attention on the subject and normalised at least the use of the word itself. Through this study, we wish to assess exactly how these voices are changing the discursive norm about incest
Anthropocene Self-Consciousness: Response to “Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto”
No full textThe prior issue of Krisis (42:1) published Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto, with the aim to instigate a debate of the issues raised in this manifesto – the necessary re-thinking of the role (and the concept) of nature in critical theory in relation to questions of ecology, health, and inequality. Since Krisis considers itself a place for philosophical debates that take contemporary struggles as starting point, it issued an open call and solicited responses to the manifesto. This is one of the sixteen selected responses, which augment, specify, or question the assumptions and arguments of the manifesto.The prior issue of Krisis (42:1) published Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto, with the aim to instigate a debate of the issues raised in this manifesto – the necessary re-thinking of the role (and the concept) of nature in critical theory in relation to questions of ecology, health, and inequality. Since Krisis considers itself a place for philosophical debates that take contemporary struggles as starting point, it issued an open call and solicited responses to the manifesto. This is one of the sixteen selected responses, which augment, specify, or question the assumptions and arguments of the manifesto
Sleep ‘self help’ books: autobiographical evaluations and personal entanglements with reading professional advice books on young children’s sleep. An exploration of the journey through early parenting and managing sleep through two mothers-as-researchers perspectives.
No full textThis article reports on two researchers’ experiences of navigating children’s night-time sleep, in relation to reading best-selling parenting books, published by professionals in the UK in the last 20 years. We felt we were ‘getting it wrong’ where we so badly wanted to ‘get it right’ for our children, because they did not sleep like the books described: silent, solitary, separate and for 12 uninterrupted night-time hours. It was also not possible to ‘read’ the advice without owning our own positionality: in particular our classed, professional identities. Perhaps this is always the case in research, and we should ‘treat our bias as a resource’ as seminal life history work urges. We found we could not but take the advice personally, which tended to focus on behaviour-orientated strategies within the routines and rituals around night-time sleep. We harness an under-studied approach within Early Childhood research, Reader-Response theory, which argues reading is a transaction; the reader brings personal context to the text at the same time as gleaning information from it. Seeing reading as a transaction helps us understand how our identities feed into our reading: our readings shape, but also are shaped by our contexts
The Future Imperfect: Memoir and the Family Photograph
No full textIn ‘The Future Imperfect’ Petra Rau reflects on the meaning of her mother’s narrowly averted attempt to discard the family photo albums, and on the function of the photo album as a retroactive personal narrative. The difficulty of reading family photographs that precede one’s own experience and recollection is the subject of the second part, an excerpt from the as yet unpublished family memoir Hinterland
Afterword: The Refugee Tales Walking Inquiry into Immigration Detention
No full textThe purpose of this afterword is to provide an update on the recent actions of the Refugee Tales project against the background of new developments in UK policies on asylum and immigration. The afterword reports on the parliamentary launch of the Refugee Tales Walking Inquiry into Immigration Detention. It then considers the implications of the UK government’s proposal to offshore asylum processing to Rwanda and, more broadly, of the new powers to detain and deport established by the Illegal Migration Bill. The afterword details the development, process, and findings of the Walking Inquiry and shows how those findings relate to and extend the remit of the official Public Inquiry into ‘the mistreatment of individuals who were detained at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in 2017’. In conclusion, it comments on the importance of Refugee Tales’ practice of walking, as a process of collective action and deliberation, and as counter to the politics of hostility
