1. RUSSIA'S OTHER WAR: PATRIARCHAL CULTURE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. THE #[phrase omitted] (#IAMNOTAFRAIDTOSPEAK) JULY 2016 CAMPAIGN ON VKONTAKTE
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Miron, Ioana-Madalina
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Burger King Corp. ,Feminism ,Restaurant industry ,Abused women ,Social networks ,Family violence ,Social sciences ,Facebook (Online social network) - Abstract
This article is dedicated to a controversial topic for Russian society, namely the campaign #%HeBomcbCKa3amb (#IamNotAfraidToSpeak) that took place in VKontakte's Russian speaking community in July 2016. First the article is based on a theoretical framework that draws attention to the concept of contentious politics and feminist movement. Second, I analysed the messages associated with #IamNotAfraidToSpeak, and argue that the campaign raised the visibility of the problem of domestic violence and patriarchal culture in the post-Soviet Russia, and this helped increase the significance of women's linguistic agency and made #IamNotAfraidToSpeak the first large-scale feminist movement in Russia. Moreover, in addition to the theoretical background, the paper focuses on a case study: The #%HeBomcbCKa3amb(#IAmNotAfraidToSpeak) campaign of July 2016 on VKontakte. Keywords: gender-based violence in Russia, feminist movements, former Soviet, flashmob, #IamNotAfraidToSpeak, VKontakte., Introduction The campaign #[phrase omitted] (in English #IamNotAfraidToSpeak) started on Russian VKontakte on July 5, 2016. The hashtag initially appeared in Ukraine, when activist Anastasia Melnychenko encouraged women to fight [...]
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- 2024
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