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Social media, characterized by user-generated content,
interactivity, participation and community formation, have gained
much research attention in recent years. At the same time,
intimacy, affectivity and emotions are increasingly growing as
fields of study. While these two areas are often interwoven, the
actual interconnections are rarely studied in detail. This
anthology explores how social media construct new types of
intimacies, and how practices of intimacy shape the development and
use of new media, offering empirical knowledge, theoretical
insights and an international perspective on the flourishing field
of digital intimacies. Chapters present a range of research tools
used, such as interviews, online ethnography, visual analysis, text
analysis and video analysis. There is also rich variation in
sources for the empirical material studied, including Tumblr,
YouTube, dating sites, hook-up sites, Facebook, Snapchat,
Couchsurfing, selfies, blogs and photographs, as well as
smartphones, tablets and computers. By focusing on the intersection
between social media and intimacies, and their continuous
co-constitution, this anthology offers new insights into the vast
landscape of contemporary media reality. It will be a valuable
resource for teachers, students and scholars with an interest in
new media, communication, intimacy and affectivity.
Since its foundation as an academic field in the 1990s, critical
race theory has developed enormously and has, among others, been
supplemented by and (dis)integrated with critical whiteness
studies. At the same time, the field has moved beyond its origins
in Anglo-Saxon environments, to be taken up and re-developed in
various parts of the world – leading to not only new empirical
material but also new theoretical perspectives and analytical
approaches. Gathering these new and global perspectives, this book
presents a much-needed collection of the various forms,
sophisticated theoretical developments and nuanced analyses that
the field of critical race and whiteness theories and studies
offers today. Organized around the themes of emotions,
technologies, consumption, institutions, crisis, identities and on
the margin, this presentation of critical race and whiteness
theories and studies in its true interdisciplinary and
international form provides the latest empirical and theoretical
research, as well as new analytical approaches. Illustrating the
strength of the field and embodying its future research directions,
The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and
Whiteness Studies will appeal to scholars across the social
sciences and humanities with interests in race and whiteness.
Illustrating the fascinating intersections of online media and new
kinship, this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of
single women and lesbian couples reproducing by using donor sperm.
It explores how they connect with each other online, develop
intimate digital communities and, most importantly, locate their
children's hitherto unknown biological half-siblings, throughout
the world. The author discusses how these new families - consisting
of only mothers - engage in extended families involving large
numbers of 'donor siblings'. The new families challenge previous
understandings of kinship, and provide illustrations of how norms
of gender, sexuality and family are challenged, negotiated and
maintained in contemporary times. A crucial study of contemporary
formations of family, gender and race, Mediated Kinship discusses
the racial aspects of the world's largest sperm bank exporting
Danish sperm (termed 'Viking sperm'), and explores the narratives
of whiteness and imagined racial superiority that circulate among
mothers, as well as the racialisations accompanying commercial
online sperm sales. By analysing contemporary families of
donor-conceived children in the context of legislation,
reproduction technologies and online media, the book will appeal to
scholars across the social sciences with interests in race and
ethnicity, whiteness, gender, sexuality, kinship and the sociology
of the family.
Illustrating the fascinating intersections of online media and new
kinship, this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of
single women and lesbian couples reproducing by using donor sperm.
It explores how they connect with each other online, develop
intimate digital communities and, most importantly, locate their
children's hitherto unknown biological half-siblings, throughout
the world. The author discusses how these new families - consisting
of only mothers - engage in extended families involving large
numbers of 'donor siblings'. The new families challenge previous
understandings of kinship, and provide illustrations of how norms
of gender, sexuality and family are challenged, negotiated and
maintained in contemporary times. A crucial study of contemporary
formations of family, gender and race, Mediated Kinship discusses
the racial aspects of the world's largest sperm bank exporting
Danish sperm (termed 'Viking sperm'), and explores the narratives
of whiteness and imagined racial superiority that circulate among
mothers, as well as the racialisations accompanying commercial
online sperm sales. By analysing contemporary families of
donor-conceived children in the context of legislation,
reproduction technologies and online media, the book will appeal to
scholars across the social sciences with interests in race and
ethnicity, whiteness, gender, sexuality, kinship and the sociology
of the family.
From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more
than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in
Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin
were exhibited for the entertainment and 'education' of a mass
audience. Several of these exhibitions took place in Copenhagen
Zoo, where different 'villages', constructed in the middle of the
zoo, hosted men, women and children, who sometimes stayed for
months, performing their 'daily lives' for thousands of curious
Danes. This book draws on unique archival material newly discovered
in Copenhagen, including photographs, documentary evidence and
newspaper articles, to offer new insights and perspectives on the
exhibitions both in Copenhagen and in other European cities.
Employing post-colonial and feminist approaches to the material,
the author sheds fresh light on the staging of exhibitions, the
daily life of the exhibitees, the wider connections between shows
across Europe and the thinking of the time on matters of race,
science, gender and sexuality. A window onto contemporary racial
understandings, Human Exhibitions presents interviews with the
descendants of displayed people, connecting the attitudes and
science of the past with both our (continued) modern fascination
with 'the exotic', and contemporary language and popular culture.
As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology,
anthropology and history working in the areas of gender and
sexuality, race, whiteness and post-colonialism.
This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in
the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical
perspectives on the everyday practices and macro-politics of race
and gender in multi-ethnic societies. With attention to the
specific political and cultural landscapes of the Nordic countries,
Affectivity and Race draws on a variety of sources, including
television programmes, news media, fictional literature,
interviews, ethnographic observations, teaching curricula and
policy documents, to explore the ways in which ideas about
affectivity and emotion afford new insights into the experience of
racial difference and the unfolding of political discourses on race
in various social spheres. Organised around the themes of the
politicisation of race through affect, the way that race produces
affect and the affective experience of race, this interdisciplinary
collection sheds light on the role of feelings in the formation of
subjectivities, how race and whiteness are affectively circulated
in public life and the ways in which emotions contribute to regimes
of inclusion and exclusion. As such it will appeal to scholars
across the social sciences, with interests in sociology,
anthropology, media, literary and cultural studies, race and
ethnicity, and Nordic studies.
Social media, characterized by user-generated content,
interactivity, participation and community formation, have gained
much research attention in recent years. At the same time,
intimacy, affectivity and emotions are increasingly growing as
fields of study. While these two areas are often interwoven, the
actual interconnections are rarely studied in detail. This
anthology explores how social media construct new types of
intimacies, and how practices of intimacy shape the development and
use of new media, offering empirical knowledge, theoretical
insights and an international perspective on the flourishing field
of digital intimacies. Chapters present a range of research tools
used, such as interviews, online ethnography, visual analysis, text
analysis and video analysis. There is also rich variation in
sources for the empirical material studied, including Tumblr,
YouTube, dating sites, hook-up sites, Facebook, Snapchat,
Couchsurfing, selfies, blogs and photographs, as well as
smartphones, tablets and computers. By focusing on the intersection
between social media and intimacies, and their continuous
co-constitution, this anthology offers new insights into the vast
landscape of contemporary media reality. It will be a valuable
resource for teachers, students and scholars with an interest in
new media, communication, intimacy and affectivity.
This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in
the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical
perspectives on the everyday practices and macro-politics of race
and gender in multi-ethnic societies. With attention to the
specific political and cultural landscapes of the Nordic countries,
Affectivity and Race draws on a variety of sources, including
television programmes, news media, fictional literature,
interviews, ethnographic observations, teaching curricula and
policy documents, to explore the ways in which ideas about
affectivity and emotion afford new insights into the experience of
racial difference and the unfolding of political discourses on race
in various social spheres. Organised around the themes of the
politicisation of race through affect, the way that race produces
affect and the affective experience of race, this interdisciplinary
collection sheds light on the role of feelings in the formation of
subjectivities, how race and whiteness are affectively circulated
in public life and the ways in which emotions contribute to regimes
of inclusion and exclusion. As such it will appeal to scholars
across the social sciences, with interests in sociology,
anthropology, media, literary and cultural studies, race and
ethnicity, and Nordic studies.
From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more
than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in
Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin
were exhibited for the entertainment and 'education' of a mass
audience. Several of these exhibitions took place in Copenhagen
Zoo, where different 'villages', constructed in the middle of the
zoo, hosted men, women and children, who sometimes stayed for
months, performing their 'daily lives' for thousands of curious
Danes. This book draws on unique archival material newly discovered
in Copenhagen, including photographs, documentary evidence and
newspaper articles, to offer new insights and perspectives on the
exhibitions both in Copenhagen and in other European cities.
Employing post-colonial and feminist approaches to the material,
the author sheds fresh light on the staging of exhibitions, the
daily life of the exhibitees, the wider connections between shows
across Europe and the thinking of the time on matters of race,
science, gender and sexuality. A window onto contemporary racial
understandings, Human Exhibitions presents interviews with the
descendants of displayed people, connecting the attitudes and
science of the past with both our (continued) modern fascination
with 'the exotic', and contemporary language and popular culture.
As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology,
anthropology and history working in the areas of gender and
sexuality, race, whiteness and post-colonialism.
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