Fiona Jeffries
Biographic Data
| ID | 1221601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Jeffries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Jeffries |
| SIGNATURE | JEFFRIES F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2191-9270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Building the sanctuary city from the ground up
This article recounts the story of sanctuary city organizing in Ottawa, Canada to explore the politics and potential of a transformative approach to sanctuary rooted in anti-prison activism and abolitionist feminist thought. More specifically, we have adapted the abolitionist framework of reformist reform and non-reformist reform and applied it to sanctuary city organizing. Analysis of the Ottawa case draws on research with frontline service prov…
Reading Caliban and the Witch politically
What I’d like to do here is to offer some cursory reflections on Silvia Federici’s contribution to anti-capitalist thought and practice. I do this through my engagement with her work on the Great Witch-Hunt
Social reproduction and politics
From Tahrir Square and Puerta del Sol to Zuccotti Park and Taksim Square, the protest camps of 2011-2013 were a physical manifestation of a wide range of political objectives, including the extinguishment of autocratic regimes, the end of capitalism, and the abolishment of student loan debts. Yet their public re-creation, day after day, revealed a world of activity that is indispensable to the daily re-making of life itself but that is typically …
Cyborg Resistance on the Digital Assembly Line
This article explores the politics of global connectivity in Alex Rivera’s film Sleep Dealer (2008), focusing on this science fic\tion film’s critical engagement with the problems and possibilities of connectivity in digital capitalism. Through its depiction of an imaginable, near-future world governed by digital connectivity, the film reflects back on contemporary global connectivity as a terrain of proliferating antagonisms. In so doing, Sleep …
Documentary noir in the city of fear
The emergence of a systematic campaign of horrific violence directed at women and girls in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has become a focus of intense media and activist attention over the last two decades. While the mainstream media devoted much attention to ravaged bodies and sensational theories, state officials reacted to the crimes with a victim-blaming narrative that, activists have argued, provided a lethal accelerant to the vio…
Reappropriating the City of Fear
Fear is seen to be one of the defining political emotions of late modernity. Filmmakers, sociologists, artists, philosophers, and pundits see fear everywhere. If fear is a way of life, the contemporary city is seen by many to be one of its most prominent and productive social laboratories. But while fear is seen to be so politically significant, the way it is studied often both naturalizes and exteriorizes fear from politics. As a result, fear’s …
Mediating fear
This paper proposes a critical contribution to the contemporary debates around the ‘culture of fear’ in media and communication studies. It seeks to open up new lines of inquiry into the political significance of fear in the production of everyday life and subjectivity in the context of hyper-mediatized global modernity. Drawing on Jesús Martín-Barbero’s concept of ‘mediations’, the paper aims to contribute to the vital critical communication and…
Communication Commoning Amidst the New Enclosures
This article considers autonomist practices of communication commoning amidst the neoliberal enclosures. I reflect on recent theoretical distinctions between the notion of the common and the commons and argue for an approach that brings them together both conceptually and in practice. One place where we find the common and the commons converge is in globalizing communication infrastructures. And it is through the infrastructure of global communic…
Saying Something
Arguing for social movement-based critiques of public surveillance, this article proposes an alternative approach to the established parameters of research on the contemporary surveillance society. As cities become increasingly organized around a logic of insecurity and fear, there has been an eruption of concern and debate about the expansion of urban public surveillance. But most of the research on this subject has paid little attention to the …
Building the sanctuary city from the ground up
This article recounts the story of sanctuary city organizing in Ottawa, Canada to explore the politics and potential of a transformative approach to sanctuary rooted in anti-prison activism and abolitionist feminist thought. More specifically, we have adapted the abolitionist framework of reformist reform and non-reformist reform and applied it to sanctuary city organizing. Analysis of the Ottawa case draws on research with frontline service prov…
Social reproduction and politics
From Tahrir Square and Puerta del Sol to Zuccotti Park and Taksim Square, the protest camps of 2011-2013 were a physical manifestation of a wide range of political objectives, including the extinguishment of autocratic regimes, the end of capitalism, and the abolishment of student loan debts. Yet their public re-creation, day after day, revealed a world of activity that is indispensable to the daily re-making of life itself but that is typically …
Mediating fear
This paper proposes a critical contribution to the contemporary debates around the ‘culture of fear’ in media and communication studies. It seeks to open up new lines of inquiry into the political significance of fear in the production of everyday life and subjectivity in the context of hyper-mediatized global modernity. Drawing on Jesús Martín-Barbero’s concept of ‘mediations’, the paper aims to contribute to the vital critical communication and…
Documentary noir in the city of fear
The emergence of a systematic campaign of horrific violence directed at women and girls in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has become a focus of intense media and activist attention over the last two decades. While the mainstream media devoted much attention to ravaged bodies and sensational theories, state officials reacted to the crimes with a victim-blaming narrative that, activists have argued, provided a lethal accelerant to the vio…
Reappropriating the City of Fear
Fear is seen to be one of the defining political emotions of late modernity. Filmmakers, sociologists, artists, philosophers, and pundits see fear everywhere. If fear is a way of life, the contemporary city is seen by many to be one of its most prominent and productive social laboratories. But while fear is seen to be so politically significant, the way it is studied often both naturalizes and exteriorizes fear from politics. As a result, fear’s …
Saying Something
Arguing for social movement-based critiques of public surveillance, this article proposes an alternative approach to the established parameters of research on the contemporary surveillance society. As cities become increasingly organized around a logic of insecurity and fear, there has been an eruption of concern and debate about the expansion of urban public surveillance. But most of the research on this subject has paid little attention to the …
Communication Commoning Amidst the New Enclosures
This article considers autonomist practices of communication commoning amidst the neoliberal enclosures. I reflect on recent theoretical distinctions between the notion of the common and the commons and argue for an approach that brings them together both conceptually and in practice. One place where we find the common and the commons converge is in globalizing communication infrastructures. And it is through the infrastructure of global communic…
Saying Something
Arguing for social movement-based critiques of public surveillance, this article proposes an alternative approach to the established parameters of research on the contemporary surveillance society. As cities become increasingly organized around a logic of insecurity and fear, there has been an eruption of concern and debate about the expansion of urban public surveillance. But most of the research on this subject has paid little attention to the …
Mediating fear
This paper proposes a critical contribution to the contemporary debates around the ‘culture of fear’ in media and communication studies. It seeks to open up new lines of inquiry into the political significance of fear in the production of everyday life and subjectivity in the context of hyper-mediatized global modernity. Drawing on Jesús Martín-Barbero’s concept of ‘mediations’, the paper aims to contribute to the vital critical communication and…
Documentary noir in the city of fear
The emergence of a systematic campaign of horrific violence directed at women and girls in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has become a focus of intense media and activist attention over the last two decades. While the mainstream media devoted much attention to ravaged bodies and sensational theories, state officials reacted to the crimes with a victim-blaming narrative that, activists have argued, provided a lethal accelerant to the vio…
Reappropriating the City of Fear
Fear is seen to be one of the defining political emotions of late modernity. Filmmakers, sociologists, artists, philosophers, and pundits see fear everywhere. If fear is a way of life, the contemporary city is seen by many to be one of its most prominent and productive social laboratories. But while fear is seen to be so politically significant, the way it is studied often both naturalizes and exteriorizes fear from politics. As a result, fear’s …
Cyborg Resistance on the Digital Assembly Line
This article explores the politics of global connectivity in Alex Rivera’s film Sleep Dealer (2008), focusing on this science fic\tion film’s critical engagement with the problems and possibilities of connectivity in digital capitalism. Through its depiction of an imaginable, near-future world governed by digital connectivity, the film reflects back on contemporary global connectivity as a terrain of proliferating antagonisms. In so doing, Sleep …
Reading Caliban and the Witch politically
What I’d like to do here is to offer some cursory reflections on Silvia Federici’s contribution to anti-capitalist thought and practice. I do this through my engagement with her work on the Great Witch-Hunt
Social reproduction and politics
From Tahrir Square and Puerta del Sol to Zuccotti Park and Taksim Square, the protest camps of 2011-2013 were a physical manifestation of a wide range of political objectives, including the extinguishment of autocratic regimes, the end of capitalism, and the abolishment of student loan debts. Yet their public re-creation, day after day, revealed a world of activity that is indispensable to the daily re-making of life itself but that is typically …
Building the sanctuary city from the ground up
This article recounts the story of sanctuary city organizing in Ottawa, Canada to explore the politics and potential of a transformative approach to sanctuary rooted in anti-prison activism and abolitionist feminist thought. More specifically, we have adapted the abolitionist framework of reformist reform and non-reformist reform and applied it to sanctuary city organizing. Analysis of the Ottawa case draws on research with frontline service prov…
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