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rally, then they should rally; to post on social media, they should do that; and so on. The accountability simply does not run in the other direction in the same way. It's not that a is unaccountable to the b i , but a 's accountability is more restricted since what's on the table right now is a 's struggle. Now suppose one of the b i , call her Betty, becomes deeply and extensively engaged, going out of her way to participate in organizing and deliberation. Betty may then emerge as a core member in developing
, nearer the expressions of brotherhood with African footballers, Black Power activists and West African miners in the ‘left populism’ of the Belgrade hip-hop collective Bombe Devedesetih (Bombs of the Nineties) (Papović and Pejović 2016 : 118), who similarly communicate through social media not the mainstream media/recording industry: on the margins of commercial popular music but well within popular music as a mode of expression. The routes through which an African-American visits Novi Sad, a Serb from Novi Sad moves to Chicago and hip-hop's sound and style offers
the Czech Republic were Roma (see Donert, 2018 ). These are citizens who are understood as socially problematic because they do not want to work and are uneducated. (There was no basis for Zeman's claims, and his statement was not historically contextualised within the Romani holocaust or the negative policies that targeted Roma in the Czech Republic after World War II (Donert, 2017 ; see also Chapters 3 and 4 .) However, what was interesting was the response of ‘ordinary’ Romani citizens of the Czech Republic, who started posting photos on social media of
grow up in the Islamic State. Awaiting them instead was a system of sexualised coercion where they were reportedly forced into sex with arriving male jihadis – treatment to which VRS guards in eastern Bosnia had subjected captured Bosniak women in 1992–5 – while ISIS manipulated their images on social media to inspire other Muslim teenagers to follow them (Perešin and Cervone 2015 : 502). Selimović was missing by the end of 2014, and Kesinović is thought to have been beaten to death in 2015 while escaping from a house in Raqqa
us intends, on her own and without any knowledge of what others are doing, to go to the first planning meeting, announced in an uncoordinated way on social media, but we are blocked before we even start. Did we act in solidarity? The answer will be mixed. Yes, because we all intended to go to the meeting, identified with one another, were disposed to share one another's fates, and so on. No, because while we intended to begin our joint activities on the way to overcoming some significant adversity, we were stopped before we ever got started. Our solidarity, we