#MeToo and the Politics of Collective Healing: Emotional Connection as Contestation

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.1093/ccc/tcz032

Allison Page, Jacquelyn Arcy

引用次数: 11

Abstract

Participants in the #MeToo movement on Twitter expressed emotions like rage, pain, and solidarity in their personal accounts of sexual violence. This article explores the digital circulation of these affects and considers how the outpouring of tweets about sexual harassment and abuse contribute to a feminist politics centered on collective healing. The particular emotions expressed in the #MeToo Twitter archive subvert the logics of quantification and visibility that undergird popular feminism and the attention economy, and produce an affective excess that works toward movement founder Tarana Burke’s original project of “mass healing.” At a moment wherein popular feminism emphasizes individual empowerment and consumption, and carceral feminism relies on criminalization and incarceration, the #MeToo movement’s focus on shared emotions represents the potential for a feminist politics rooted in collective support and restorative justice.

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#MeToo和集体治疗的政治:情感联系作为争论

推特上#MeToo运动的参与者在他们个人的性暴力描述中表达了愤怒、痛苦和团结等情绪。本文探讨了这些影响的数字循环，并考虑了关于性骚扰和性虐待的大量推文如何为以集体治愈为中心的女权主义政治做出贡献。#MeToo推特档案中表达的特殊情感颠覆了支撑流行女权主义和注意力经济的量化和可见性逻辑，并产生了一种情感过剩，这种情感过剩有助于运动创始人塔拉娜·伯克(Tarana Burke)最初的“大众治疗”项目。在大众女权主义强调个人赋权和消费，而监狱女权主义依赖于定罪和监禁的时代，#MeToo运动对共同情感的关注代表了植根于集体支持和恢复性正义的女权主义政治的潜力。

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Communication Culture & Critique COMMUNICATION-

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2.50

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5.90%

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