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Re-enclosure in the Stack? Digital violence in a neofeudal age
I recently gave a talk for the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, based on the final chapter of my forthcoming book Personal Business: Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism (with Manchester University Press). You can read the abstract and watch the video below. This talk explores online violence against women, a phenomenon usually situated in a cultural ‘backlash’ frame. It contextualises this violence within a political economy of late (or ‘platform’) capitalism that draws on arguments that we are moving into a neo- or techno-feudal age. I engage Siapera’s understanding of digital violence as a strategy of enclosure that…
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New paper out – using community power to tackle gender-based violence
I have a new open-access paper out with the brilliant Gabriella Mwedzi, called ‘Using Community Power to Tackle Gender-Based Violence: An Intersectional Theorisation.’ The abstract is below, and the paper is completely free to download and share. It’s intended as a friendly critique and perhaps even a first step to taking a more GBV-sensitive and intersectional approach to Community Power. Do share onwards if appropriate and we really hope it’s useful. Download the full paper at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13607804241252271 What is the role of the community in tackling gender-based violence (GBV)? Could communities succeed in ways that states have failed? What approaches…
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Online lecture June 12th – ‘Re-enclosure in the Stack’
Next Wednesday June 12th I will be giving an online lunchtime lecture (12:30-2pm) for the Centre for Education and Social Justice at Lancaster University. This is based on a chapter from my forthcoming book Personal Business: sexual violence in racial capitalism, which will be out next year from Manchester University Press. Title, abstract and Zoom details below – all welcome! Feel free to share onwards. Re-enclosure in the Stack? Digital violence in neofeudal times This paper explores online violence against women, a phenomenon usually situated in a cultural ‘backlash’ frame. It contextualises this violence within a political economy of late…
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Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue
This International Women’s Day, I wanted to share a teaching resource I made with input from some expert colleagues, called ‘Why Palestine is a feminist issue’. It’s a short electronic aid/handout with points to be elaborated in class and links to discussion material. Please feel free to download, adapt and use (and do share onwards with anyone you think might find it useful). It’s a very small and limited/imperfect contribution but I hope it’s helpful – especially to fellow feminist scholars who are not experts on Palestine but who want to centre this issue as much as we can in…
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Paper out in Feminist Theory
My paper in Feminist Theory is finally officially out – it is fully open-access and can be downloaded at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14647001241232260. I am no longer on social media due to persistent harassment, so would appreciate any help at publicising it – these things take a long time to write and even longer to peer review, and very rarely get widely read! The abstract is below and I hope the paper is a useful contribution to thinking through how we tackle sexual violence in institutions. A ‘rape crisis’ has been identified in universities in the Anglophone North, and responses usually take the…
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Interview – The Malcolm Effect
I was recently interviewed on The Malcolm Effect podcast by the fantastic Deej and Momodou – listen below or download from Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. https://player.fm/series/the-malcolm-effect/ep-78-challenges-for-feminism-today-dr-alison-phipps-deej I hope you enjoy it!
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Open-access resources
Just a reminder that my website contains a number of resources that are free to download, adapt and use. Resources for lecturers: this is a portfolio of resources for fellow lecturers, which include a series of introductory lectures about feminism, and a gender theory syllabus for upper-undergraduate and postgraduate students. Resources for researchers: this is a collection of handouts, infographics and blogs offering general advice to social science and humanities researchers, whether postgraduate students or early-career academics. Resources for activists: this is a growing set of resources to support activists campaigning against and attempting to tackle sexual violence in universities…
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From white feminism to abolition: a work in progress
Originally posted on Read and Resist!: Abolition Feminism keynote – Alison Phipps https://youtu.be/1WcOciF7yPQ I am not an organiser – I am a teacher, a scholar and a survivor. I have been an activist, but in circles very different to these. I came to abolition from the heart of white feminism – the movement against campus sexual violence in the UK. This was powered by extremely angry white feminists, although some of the key student leaders were women of colour (I want to mention Susuana Amoah here, who I worked closely with for many years). From 2006 to 2018 I was…
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From ‘sex-based rights’ to ‘become ungovernable’: from supremacy to solidarity
‘The inclusion of men who claim to have a female ‘gender identity’ into the category of women in law, policies and practice constitutes discrimination against women by impairing the recognition of women’s sex-based human rights. Organizations that promote the concept of ‘gender identity’ challenge the right of women and girls to define themselves on the basis of sex.’ This is an excerpt from the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights, launched in 2019, and now signed by over 30,000 individuals in 158 countries, in collaboration with 427 organisations. The Declaration has become the manifesto of contemporary gender-critical feminism, which positions itself…
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