Consumer activism, promotional culture and resistance: An interview with Dr Eleftheria Lekakis
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by Re.framing Activism
11M ago
In this post, REFRAME co-managing editor Dr Tanya Kant interviews Re.Framing Activism editor Dr Eleftheria Lekakis on her new monograph: Consumer Activism, Promotional Culture and Resistance. Dr Lekakis’s book takes as its premise that consumption and resistance are entwined. From buying fair-trade, to celebrity advocates for social causes, to subvertising and anti-consumerist grassroots movements, consumer activism is now a key part of our fight for social and environmental justice. Her monograph explores the complexities and dilemmas of using the marketplace as an arena for politics, going ..read more
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Controlled death narrative: Worlding in China and the communication logic of totalitarianism
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by Re.framing Activism
4y ago
by Sara Xueting Liao The opening of 2020 has been unusual. Bushfires have been roaring in Australia for months. A weird flu season has caused thousands of lives in the U.S. Locusts in swarms have been tearing across East Africa. And in China, an epidemic brought by an infectious virus has been shaking the state’s foundation of governance that is already in crisis. Officially referred to as COVID-19, the outbreak of the new coronavirus disease is now devastating the country. A Chinese doctor, Li Wenliang, who was among the earliest to warn his colleagues and friends of a “SARS-like virus ..read more
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Alternative media activism: Anybody hearing the audience?
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by Re.framing Activism
4y ago
  by Pantelis Vatikiotis Research interest in alternative media has grown considerably over the last two decades in reference to the appropriation of digital technologies for activist purposes, but are we hearing the audience? The use of social media during uprisings sparked across the world in the emblematic year 2011 (Arab Spring, Indignados, Occupy Movement) onward has largely driven the research focus on the networking of protest movements, assessing the emancipatory or transformative potential of social media activism. Nevertheless, the digital technologies also mediate varieties of act ..read more
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Emotional Intelligence and Grassroots Epistemology
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by Eleftheria Lekakis
4y ago
By Gino Canella, Ph.D.   As media studies scholars, social scientists, and journalists focus on big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, they often fail to consider the importance of emotional intelligence.   “Anger is loaded with information and energy,” Audre Lorde said in 1981. Emotion, according to Lorde, is data.   Feelings are often the expression of a personal truth. When emotions are expressed in public discourse, through social media, print, or protest, they have the potential to become a collective fact.   I produce documentary films with community organizers to under ..read more
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Cyberactivism and Gender-Based Violence in Brazil: the case of networked activism led by Sabrina Bittencourt in João de Deus case
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by Eleftheria Lekakis
4y ago
December 8th, 2018. João Teixeira de Farias, commonly known as “João de Deus” (“John of God” in Portuguese), the worldwide famous spiritual leader is on the news this time not because of his acclaimed “healing powers”, but surprisingly due to one of the biggest sexual scandals in the world, being accused of sexually abusing more than 500 women. João de Deus (John of God)_Creative CommonsJoão de Deus became internationally renowned for his “spiritual surgery” and treated international celebrities and political leaders, receiving thousands of visitors in his “clinic”, among which many foreigner ..read more
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#carnivalofresistance
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by Eleftheria Lekakis
4y ago
In January 2017, upon the inauguration of Donald Trump, a petition to the British Parliament reached over 1,8 million signatures, asking for the prevention of the 45th President of the United States to the United Kingdom. A few weeks later, after debating the petition in Parliament, the Government responded that it “believes the President of the United States should be extended the full courtesy of a State Visit. We look forward to welcoming President Trump once dates and arrangements are finalised.”   As a response, the Carnival of Protest was organised. ‘Dump Trump‘ was a major slogan. photo ..read more
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Re-framing art activism? (New) research approaches to art and politics
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by Eleftheria Lekakis
4y ago
by Paula Serafini   Art activism has been written about. A lot. Politics and art are a good match, and events, exhibitions and publications that address the artistic and the political have been en vogue for a while now. So why keep writing about this stuff? There are a few straightforward reasons: new practices emerging, new contexts, new social movements, new technologies. These all call us to reflect on the relationship between art and politics in new ways, and to consider the potential of practices like art activism in light of the big challenges of our times. But when we approach art activ ..read more
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FAKE! and TRUE BELIEVER – two new activist videos by Tom Kalin
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by Catherine Grant
4y ago
As we launch our new look at Re.framing Activism—one put together by the original founder of the website, Rachel Tavernor— we also bring you, below, two new videos about the practices of disinformation and the new US presidency made and published online by the great American filmmaker Tom Kalin, currently professor of experimental film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. In so doing we invite further creative scholarly responses to current events and activism alongside the kinds of critical academic content this website has more frequently published to date. Just contact us here if yo ..read more
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Paying for the Revolution in Monopoly Money
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by Re.framing Activism
4y ago
by Julian Gottlieb In my last post for RA, I made the case for movements to be more strategically adaptive; to evolve, pivot on issues, and tinker with new tactics. This may seem a bit obvious; duh! movements have to change with the times and try new tactics when old ones decay in efficacy over time. But it is apparently not so obvious for the thousands of people who have been marching in the streets in a rebuke of the recent presidential election of Lord Voldemort in the United States. I can assure you, the new president elect doesn’t miss a tweet over protests in Seattle and Portland, places ..read more
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The Productivity of Protest
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by Re.framing Activism
4y ago
by Laura Portwood-Stacer I’m writing this post a few days after the world learned that Donald Trump had won enough electoral votes to become the 45th president of the United States. In the hours following the announcement, those who had feared this outcome (even if they didn’t really expect it) rapidly transitioned from denial to sadness and anger. Every day since then, in many cities around the country, people have taken to the streets in protest. Those protests will continue in the days, weeks, months, and years ahead. For the most part, the point of these marches isn’t to say that the elect ..read more
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