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Rebuilding precarious solidarities
A feminist debate in internet time
in Intimacy and injury
Chapter DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157638.00017
Online Publication Date:
10 May 2022
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In October 2017, a law school student in California posted a list on the social media platform Facebook of Indian men accused of sexual harassment. In response, within a day, a group of feminists had posted a statement asking the group that had posted the list to consider due process rather than anonymous accusations with ‘no context or explanation’. These two texts became the subject of an intense and fraught debate among feminists in India. This chapter focuses on feminist arguments, disagreements and solidarities in the wake of #MeToo rather than on the debates surrounding sexual harassment itself. Rather than sexual harassment, it was feminism which became the subject of contestation. This chapter traces narratives from this debate and engages in conversations with feminists to think back to that moment. The chapter is located around the idea of what it calls internet time and its capacities to reshape the trajectory of feminist debates. It reflects on what it means to have an argument in internet time. What does it mean to engage as feminists with each other in the online space? What are the specific pressures and anxieties produced by articulations and disagreements in online spaces? How might one reflect on the question of disagreement, especially disagreement with allies, in a time of social media? And how might one think of and construct the possibilities and circumscriptions of feminist solidarities in internet time, in messy circumstances?
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Intimacy and injury

In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa

Editors:
Nicky Falkof
,
Shilpa Phadke
, and
Srila Roy
eISBN:
9781526157638
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Cover Intimacy and injury
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
feminism; #LoSHA; #MeToo; rape culture; gender-based violence; india; south africa; affect; social movements; digital activism
Page Count:
372
Publisher:
Manchester University Press

Series: Governing Intimacies in the Global South

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