Affective Subjectifications and Social Media. Malian-diasporic Negotiations of Intersectional Gender Relations through Physical, Emotional, and Digital Dis/Connectedness

Autor(en)

Syntia Hasenöhrl

Abstrakt

In light of increasing interest in connections between diasporic social media use and gendered power relations, this article analyses how affective subjectifications shape two Malian-diasporic women's perceptions and experiences of liminality in social media. Drawing from online interactions, it explicates how these women experience feelings of physical disconnectedness and social exclusion as subjecting them to patriarchal and nationalist power relations, as well as how both have developed strategies to shape this
distance in order to continue articulating their opinions as their contribution towards social justice. I thus argue that the strategic combination of physical, emotional, and digital dis/connectedness enables these women to remain socio-politically active subjects within their intersectional positionalities.
Keywords: diaspora, emotions, gender, social media, subjectification.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Journal

Cahiers de l'Ouest Saharien

Band

2023

Seiten

83-106

ISSN

1292-136X

Publikationsdatum

07-2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

509026 Digitalisierungsforschung, 504014 Gender Studies, 504021 Migrationsforschung

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/70296060-e223-4c94-b42b-5a2df28a082a