Results 31 to 40 of about 2,400 (100)

The Ethnographic Use of Facebook in Everyday Life [PDF]

, 2016
New social media have become indispensable to people all over the world as platforms for communication, with Facebook being the most popular. Hence, platforms such as Facebook are also becoming crucial tools for ethnographers because much social life now
Abidin C., Bernard H. R., Boellstorff T., Boellstorff T., Clifford J., Dalsgaard S., Gershon I., Hammersley M., Hine C., Horst H., Jackson J., Küehling S., Markham A., Marwick A., McKay D., Miller D., Munn N., Nardi B., Nardi B., Norman D., Okely J., Postill J., Rasmussen A. E., Riles A., Rogers R., Sanjek R., Senft T., Steffen Dalsgaard, Strathern M., Suhr Nielsen C.   +29 more
core   +1 more source

In pursuit of statehood: An exploration of the contentious repertoires of Biafran separatists in Nigeria

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 17-47, April 2025.
Abstract Since Nigeria’s return to democratic governance in 1999, there have been renewed calls―predominantly amongst ethnic Igbos in southeast Nigeria―for the restoration of the defunct secessionist state of Biafra. The resurgent Biafran separatism has been explored through the prisms of relative marginalisation and material deprivation. However, some
Promise Frank Ejiofor
wiley   +1 more source

The Western Far Right and Digital Technology: Fuzzy Collectivity From Translocal Whiteness to Networked Metapolitics

Sociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 2, February 2025.
ABSTRACT The rise of the far right has captured the attention of scholars across media studies, political science, and sociology. Digital technology played an important role in the rise of the far right and has deeply shaped this global movement. Focusing on research in Western societies (primarily Europe and North America), this review takes stock of ...
Bharath Ganesh
wiley   +1 more source

The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy

American Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 433-447, August 2024.
Abstract Contemporary white supremacy often takes hold through strategies of racial disavowal. One strategy that political parties and regular citizens in Bulgaria use is what I call determined indeterminacy. Determined indeterminacy is a collective, institutionalized method of denying the ubiquitous systemic racism that undergirds social life.
Elana Resnick
wiley   +1 more source

Tackling Social Media Abuse? Critically Assessing English Football’s Response to Online Racism [PDF]

, 2017
Although English football has, to some extent, managed the problem of racism in and around football matches, recent years have seen an increase in football-related racist content published on social media. Footballers are frequently the target or subject
Kilvington, DJ, Price, J
core   +1 more source

Red‐pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space

British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 1037-1052, July 2024.
Abstract Previous research into the gendered social identity work involved in conspiracy theories (CTs) has largely focused on expressions of masculinity. The present study investigates the employment and mobilization of feminine identities in online Covid‐19 conspiracy theory seminars through a critical discursive psychological perspective.
Ira Frejborg, Katarina Pettersson
wiley   +1 more source

When Free Speech Disrupts Diversity Initiatives: What We Value and What We Do Not [PDF]

, 2018
In this essay, I argue that the debate on free speech as pushed by the conservative right is a strategic apparatus to undermine the various diversity initiatives on college and university campuses. While supporters of the right wing extremists around the
Dutt-Ballerstadt, Reshmi
core   +1 more source

“Mera Jamia, Mera Ghar”: The corporeal collective willfulness of young Muslim women at Jamia Milia Islamia University

Feminist Anthropology, Volume 5, Issue 1, Page 121-134, May 2024.
Abstract Passed in December 2019, the Citizenship Amendment Act intensified Hindu majoritarian rule, emerging as another legal measure to systematically deny citizenship to Muslims and other minoritized populations. These legislations were met by protests which were responded to by police violence.
Karishma Desai
wiley   +1 more source

The interaction between online and offline Islamophobia and anti‐mosque campaigns: The literature review with a case study from an anti‐mosque social media page

Sociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2024.
Abstract In the aftermath of the war on terror, mosques have become targets for hate groups, leveraging online platforms to amplify global anti‐mosque campaigns. These groups link local protestors with international hate networks, fuelling both online and offline (i.e., onsite) anti‐mosque campaigns.
Gabriel Ahmanideen, Derya Iner
wiley   +1 more source

The ideology and discourse of the English Defence League: ‘Not racist, not violent, just no longer silent’ [PDF]

, 2015
The English Defence League (EDL) emerged in 2009 and quickly became a major ‘anti-Islamist’ street protest movement, able to attract thousands to its national demonstrations. Despite the violence and anti-Muslim rhetoric associated with its protests, the
Allen C., Balibar E., Burnett J., Busher J., Crown Prosecution Service, Feagin, J. R., Vera, H. and Batur, P., Garland, J. and Treadwell, J., Nesbitt E., Richardson J. E., Williams S.   +9 more
core   +1 more source