The feminist evolution of collective action: digital networks and the politics of prefiguration of connected crowds

  • Guiomar Rovira Sancho Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Keywords: feministization, hacker, performative constellations, prefiguration.

Abstract

From the connected crowds that have taken the squares and the networks (from the Arab Spring in 2011 to #NuitDebout in 2016), a feminist and hacker evolution of collective action that is simultaneous in situ and online is enlightened. This article analyzes the characteristics of this “politics of prefiguration” that is tendentially feminist, which gives special relevance to “the personal is political” in the multiplication of voices and non-mediation, in counting and doing, in opposition to the “politics of organization”, more ideological, unitary and oriented towards ends. At the same time, it explores the emergence of performative constellations and feminist hashtags that extend into transnational networks, politicizing vulnerability, such as #PrimaveraVioleta in Mexico in 2016 or the Women Strike of 2017 and 2018.

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Guiomar Rovira Sancho, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Profesora investigadora titular del departamento de Educación y Comunicación
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2018-09-25
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Rovira Sancho G. (2018). The feminist evolution of collective action: digital networks and the politics of prefiguration of connected crowds. Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, 15(2), 223-240. https://doi.org/10.5209/TEKN.59367

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