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Born out of the United States' (U.S.) history of slavery and segregation and intertwined EUROPEAN WHITENESS? 21 with gender studies and feminism, the field of critical whiteness studies does not fit easily into a European setting and the particular historical context that entails. In order for a field of European critical whiteness studies to emerge, its relation to the U.S. theoretical framework, as well as the particularities of the European context need to be taken into account. The article makes a call for a multilayered approach to take over from the identity politics so often employed in the fields of U.S. gender, race, and whiteness studies.

Born out of the United States' (U.S.) history of slavery and segregation and intertwined EUROPEAN WHITENESS? 21 with gender studies and feminism, the field of critical whiteness studies does not fit easily into a European setting and the particular historical context that entails. In order for a field of European critical whiteness studies to emerge, its relation to the U.S. theoretical framework, as well as the particularities of the European context need to be taken into account. The article makes a call for a multilayered approach to take over from the identity politics so often employed in the fields of U.S. gender, race, and whiteness studies.

Reconceptualizing citizen media : a preliminary charting of a complex domain / Mona Baker & Bolette B. Blaagaard -- Understanding citizen media as practice : agents, processes, publics / Hilde Stephansen -- Frontiers of the political : "closed sea" and the cinema of discontent / Sandra Ponzanesi -- Citizen mediations of connectivity : narrowing the "culture of distance" in television news / Bolette B. Blaagaard & Stuart Allan -- Theatricality and gesture as citizen media : composure on a precipice / Jenny Hughes & Simon Parry -- Nanodemonstrations as media events : networked forms of the Russian protest movement / Evgenia Nim -- The politics of affect in activist amateur subtitling : a biopolitical perspective / Luis Pérez-González -- Media participation and desiring subjects / Sara Beretta -- Participatory urbanism : making the stranger familiar and the familiar strange / Stine Ejsing-Duun -- Ironic "resistance" in chinese citizen media online / Astrid Nordin -- The securitization of citizen reporting in post-arab spring conflicts / Lilie Chouliaraki -- The people formerly known as the oligarchy : the cooptation of citizen journalism / Julia Rone -- Memory, guardianship and the witnessing amateur in the emergence of citizen journalism / Karen Cross

This article explores the research question: How is political activism expressed in connective, affective, and embodied ways and how do these modes result in a rearticulation of the body and central activist signifiers? While connective and affective dimensions of digital activism offer invaluable insights into the new forms of activist organisation, it remains underexplored how the activist body, the concept of 'human' and of 'rights' are discursively produced through digital expressions of activism. Therefore, drawing on a purposive selection of digital content we produce a discursive analysis of three illustrative cases of digital activism relating to three major political contemporary issues: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and Extinction Rebellion. We argue that they each present different modes of embodied and discursively constructed signifiers of 'human' and 'rights', that allow for a range of political aims and outcomes to be expressed through different degrees of antagonism calling respectively for deconstruction, inclusion and expansion of the signifiers.

"This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multi-faceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and practice, incorporating insights from across a wide range of scholarly areas. Citizen Media is a fast-evolving terrain that cuts across a variety of disciplines. It explores the physical artefacts, digital content, performative interventions, practices and discursive expressions of affective sociality that ordinary citizens produce as they participate in public life to effect aesthetic or socio-political change. The seventy-five entries featured in this pioneering resource provide a rigorous overview of extant scholarship, deliver a robust critique of key research themes and anticipate new directions for research on a variety of topics. Cross-references and recommended reading suggestions are included at the end of each entry to allow scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to identify relevant connections across diverse areas of citizen media scholarship and explore further avenues of research. Featuring contributions by leading scholars and supported by an international panel of consultant editors, the Encyclopedia is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in media studies, social movement studies, performance studies, political science and a variety of other disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. It will also be of interest to non-academics involved in activist movements and those working to effect change in various areas of social life"--

"The Subject of Rosi Braidotti: Politics and Concepts brings into focus the diverse influence of the work of Rosi Braidotti on academic fields in the humanities and the social sciences such as the study and scholarship in - among others - feminist theory, political theory, continental philosophy, philosophy of science and technology, cultural studies, ethnicity and race studies. Inspired by Braidotti's philosophy of nomadic relations of embodied thought, the v. is a mapping exercise of productive engagements and instructive interactions by a variety of international, outstanding and world-renowned scholars with texts and concepts developed by Braidotti throughout her immense body of work. In Braidotti's work, traversing themes of engagements emerge of politics and philosophy across generations and continents. Therefore, the edited volume invites prominent scholars at different stages of their careers and from around the world to engage with Braidotti's work in terms of concepts and/or political practice."--

Introduction -- "Becoming-world" / Rosi Braidotti -- Cosmopolitanism in a multipolar world / David Held -- A cosmopolitics of singularities: rights and the thinking of other worlds / Patrick Hanafin -- The metaphysics of cosmopolitanism / Costas Douzinas -- The humanitarian imaginary: reflections on cosmopolitanism and mediation / Lilie Chouliaraki -- The fantasies of cosmopolitanism / Henrietta Moore -- Postcolonialism and cosmopolitanism: towards a worldly understanding of fascism and Europe's colonial crimes / Paul Gilroy -- Estrangement as pedagogy: the cosmopolitan vernacular / Sneja Gunew -- Global cosmopolitanism and nomad citizenship / Eugene Holland -- Destroying cosmopolitanism for the sake of the cosmos / Claire Colebrook