The Umeå local chapter of the Swedish Association for Gender Researchers are co-hosting an online event at Humlab, Umeå University tomorrow, Thursday 4 February 2PM
Date: Thu 4th of February
Time: 14.00 UTC+01
Location: Zoom (see registration information below)
Click here for the Facebook event.
Across the globe, feminist, women’s rights, and LGBTI+ movements struggle against local, colonial, national and transnational violence, threats and norms. To be sure, constructions of place and nationality are inseparable from struggles for social justice and from the conditions of social movements, who encounter multiple and diverse power hierarchies in various locations across the globe. Simultaneously, in civil society today, new communities and groups of collective actors emerge in transnational space through digital technologies. Attending to these developments, and inspired by the critical interventions of postcolonial feminist and technoscience scholars, we want to move beyond the idea of an ontological divide between humans and machines and study the interconnections between the digital, the social and the cultural – which we refer to as technocultural assemblages. From different perspectives and contexts, contributions to this panel will illuminate new insights on the relation between digital technologies and emergent communities and include:
– Explorations of the notion of contextual anchoring in collective movements online
– Digital collective action on Twitch: The Blizzard-Hong Kong case
– Reclaiming queer places through networked activism: The Case of Istanbul Pride
This panel emerges from discussions in the research cluster TechnAct: Transformations of Struggle which seeks to provide a collaborative platform to develop approaches to study the interconnections between the digital, the social and the cultural and to share knowledge on the relation between digital technologies and emergent communities in transnational space.
Registration & participation
This session is held in ZOOM and to participate you will need to register:
https://www.umu.se/en/events/humlab-talk-technact_10004002/