Kate Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3645348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1379-5095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Political Actors and Their Media Practices: Analyzing the Role of Media Participation in Democratic Backsliding and Resilience
This paper draws together insights from political science and political communication to advance a new understanding of the role of media in democratic backsliding and resilience. The central argument is that all political actors may also be media actors, although they may do so anonymously or use false identities. Thus, mass participation in media enables mass participation in political change, with better and worse democratic outcomes. As such,…
The power of social media activism in the #YesAllWomen Movement
Social media has played a significant role in activism, with hashtags becoming a powerful tool for community organizing and raising awareness about social and political issues. Twitter, now X, supported the rise of hashtag activism. The hashtag #YesAllWomen gained widespread attention in 2014 after the murder of six women in retribution for one man’s feelings of rejection. Women used #YesAllWomen to publicly share experiences with sexism, harassm…
"Beyond “Emergencies?" Reporting on Humanitarian Issues Around the World
How do journalists around the world report on humanitarian issues? Two decades after Calhoun first wrote about the “emergency imaginary”, it is still seen as a “master frame”, dominating narratives about humanitarian action in news and aid work alike. But no one has previously tested the extent to which the emergency imaginary dominates journalism about humanitarian issues within a largescale, systematic study. Using an innovative combination of …
Women's Help-Seeking and Service Experiences: Sexual Revictimization in Regional and Rural Areas
While literature on sexual revictimization is extensive, data on women's help-seeking and service experiences in regional/rural areas is scarce, particularly within Australia. This paper aims to fill this gap by examining the help-seeking journeys of victim/survivors of sexual revictimization in regional and rural Victoria, Australia. Using a material feminist approach, semi-structured interviews with victim/survivors ( N = 11) were analyzed to u…
The normalisation of sexual violence revictimisation in regional and rural areas: Our failure to respond
Sexual revictimisation has devastating consequences for victim/survivors, yet there is limited research exploring women's experience of revictimisation in regional/rural areas. Using a community‐based participatory research (CBPR) approach, this paper reports on a qualitative study that employed a material feminist lens and Nixon's theory of “slow violence” to explore women's lived experiences of sexual revictimisation. In‐depth interviews were c…
The Laundromat Poem, and: Ars Poetica After a Wisdom Tooth Extraction, and: Sestina in Which I Miss My Hometown, and: Bachelor Pantoum
The Laundromat Poem, and: Ars Poetica After a Wisdom Tooth Extraction, and: Sestina in Which I Miss My Hometown, and: Bachelor Pantoum Kate Wright (bio) THE LAUNDROMAT POEM You might / have your very own matching washer-and-dryer set at home / and never have need for this love song to the lavandería. –Nikky Finney "From the Washhouse Files" Every other Sunday starting my junior year, you could find mefolding my fresh clothes at the local laundrom…
Making Urban Environments: Infrastructures of Power, Resistance and Negotiation
As scholars from the fields of history, anthropology and animal studies, as well as landscape planning and management, we discuss various forms of urban and urbanising infrastructures and their political entanglements. Questioning and illuminating how various actors and their practices build and shape urban environments, we address topics ranging from the black soldier fly - used as biotechnological infrastructure to manage waste - to other nonhu…
Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone
Attending to cardiovascular disease risk factors after incarceration: A study of empowerment and structural barriers to care
Incarceration in the United States is associated with high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and elevated CVD risk continues into the immediate period following release from prison. One reason may be that people who are released from incarceration experience difficulties accessing healthcare and navigating the healthcare system. We use empowerment theory to describe the experiences of people after release from incarceration who h…
Mentoring in the Time of Covid‐19: An Analysis of Online Focus Groups with Mentors to Youth
This study explored the experiences of mentors to youth during the early months of the COVID‐19 pandemic. The study aims were to examine (1) the role of the pandemic on mentor–mentee interactions and relationships and (2) the ways in which mentors could be supported during the health crisis to better meet youth needs. Six online focus groups were conducted with 39 mentors. Mentor participants included 26 females and 11 males (two did not disclose…
The Influence of News Coverage on Humanitarian Aid: The Bureaucrats’ Perspective
We examine if and how news coverage influences governments’ humanitarian aid allocations, from the perspective of the senior bureaucrats involved in such decision-making. Using rare in-depth interviews with 30 directors and senior policymakers in 16 of the world’s largest donor countries, we found that the majority of these bureaucrats believed that sudden-onset, national news coverage can increase levels of emergency humanitarian aid allocated t…
Debbie’s Gift
I attended Debbie’s last public lecture at the Australian Museum in Sydney in 2018. I remember her saying ‘the gift of life is a gift that must keep moving’ (‘Gifts’). For Debbie, the gift of life was a way of expressing the complex entanglement of ethics, time, relationality, entropy, energy, memory, culture, and inheritance, in living, mortal systems. The gift of life is not something we choose or something we can opt out of. The gift is fundam…
Rhythms of Law: Aboriginal Jurisprudence and the Anthropocene
Soft Power, Hard News: How Journalists at State-Funded Transnational Media Legitimize Their Work
How do journalists working for different state-funded international news organizations legitimize their relationship to the governments which support them? In what circumstances might such journalists resist the diplomatic strategies of their funding states? We address these questions through a comparative study of journalists working for international news organizations funded by the Chinese, US, UK and Qatari governments. Using 52 interviews wi…
Data Journalism beyond Majority World Countries: Challenges and Opportunities
This commentary reflects on the state of research on data journalism and discusses future directions for this line of work. Drawing on theory in international development and postcolonial studies, we discuss three critical pitfalls that we encourage future scholarship in this area to avoid. These include using a linear model of progress, in which journalists in Majority World nations struggle to ‘catch up’ to their Minority World counterparts bec…
Foundation Funding and the Boundaries of Journalism
Private foundations are an important source of funding for many news outlets. It has even been suggested that they may offer a partial solution to journalism’s economic crisis. Yet we do not know how foundation funding shapes journalistic practice. In this article, we show that foundation funding has a significant effect on the “boundaries of journalism”. That is, the ways in which journalists understand, value and practice their journalism. This…
Foundation-funded Journalism, Philanthrocapitalism and Tainted Donors
Not-for-profit news organisations are increasingly funded by private foundations, supported by wealthy entrepreneurs. This raises a range of ethical dilemmas for journalists, which are particularly serious when their donors are alleged to have been involved in unethical or illegal activities. Although this is a relatively common occurrence in the non-profit sector, so far there has been no critical discussion of these issues in relation to founda…
Helping our beneficiaries tell their own stories?’ International aid agencies and the politics of voice within news production
International aid agencies often claim to give the poor and disenfranchised a voice by helping them tell their stories to others located far away. But how do aid workers conceptualize and operationalize a politics of voice within media production processes? How do ideas about giving voice to others shape aid agencies’ engagement with mainstream news organizations? This article explores two contrasting news production case studies which took place…
In the Shadow of a Willow Tree: A Community Garden Experiment in Decolonising, Multispecies Research
In 2014 I commenced a postdoctoral project that involved collaboratively planting and maintaining a community garden on a block of land that was once part of the East Armidale Aboriginal Reserve in the so-called New England Tableland region of New South Wales, Australia. At the edge of this block of land is an introduced, invasive willow tree. In this article I write with and alongside the willow tree to interrogate the potential and limitations …
Our newsroom in the cloud’: Slack, virtual newsrooms and journalistic practice
Virtual newsrooms have enormous potential: enabling journalists around the world to pool their knowledge, skills and perspectives within joint projects, such as the Panama Papers. These virtual newsrooms are supported by Online Collaborative Software (OCS), the most popular of which is Slack. But although many of the world’s top news organisations now use Slack, there is no empirical research examining its impact on workplace processes or culture…
Donor Power and the News: The Influence of Foundation Funding on International Public Service Journalism
How does donor funding affect the independence, role perceptions, and ideology of the journalism it supports? We begin to answer this increasingly important but underresearched question with a year-long case study of the humanitarian news organistion IRIN as it transitioned from being funded by the United Nations to a private foundation, run by a Malaysian billionaire. Using content analysis, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic research, we doc…
Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene: More-than-human encounters
Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene' offers a new perspective on inter~ national environmental scholarship, focusing on the emotional and affective connections between human and nonhuman lives to reveal fresh connections between global issues of climate change, species extinction and colonisation. Combining the rhythm of road travel, interviews with local Aboriginal Elders and autobiographical storytelling, the book develops a new form…
These Grey Areas”: How and why freelance work blurs Ingos and news organizations
International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) are known to employ freelancers to produce multimedia and to pitch it for them to mainstream news outlets. So it seems odd that research about the blurring of news organizations and INGOs has been largely focused upon the practices of full-time staff at these kinds of organizations. To help fill this lacuna, this article constructs a model capable of interrogating the multiple forms of structur…
Becoming-with
Should journalists be ‘virtuous’? Mainstream news, complex media organisations and the work of Nick Couldry
Critical debates about whether it is possible to formulate a ‘global media ethics’ have now become pressing given the increasing blurriness between some kinds of media practices, the transnational implications of the News International phone-hacking scandal, and the existence of a range of serious transnational problems, such as conflict, climate change and the recent global economic crisis. This article attempts to question Couldry’s recent asse…
Foundation Funding and the Boundaries of Journalism
Private foundations are an important source of funding for many news outlets. It has even been suggested that they may offer a partial solution to journalism’s economic crisis. Yet we do not know how foundation funding shapes journalistic practice. In this article, we show that foundation funding has a significant effect on the “boundaries of journalism”. That is, the ways in which journalists understand, value and practice their journalism. This…
Becoming-with
Donor Power and the News: The Influence of Foundation Funding on International Public Service Journalism
How does donor funding affect the independence, role perceptions, and ideology of the journalism it supports? We begin to answer this increasingly important but underresearched question with a year-long case study of the humanitarian news organistion IRIN as it transitioned from being funded by the United Nations to a private foundation, run by a Malaysian billionaire. Using content analysis, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic research, we doc…
Reality Without Scare Quotes: Developing the case for critical realism in journalism research
This article builds on initial arguments about the advantages of using Critical Realism as an underpinning ontology in Journalism Studies, by discussing its compatibility with practical journalistic teaching and some aspects of constructivism, its grounds for political and ethical engagement, and its ability to open up new avenues of research in journalism research. In particular, it advances ideas about the ways in which Critical Realism allows …
Soft Power, Hard News: How Journalists at State-Funded Transnational Media Legitimize Their Work
How do journalists working for different state-funded international news organizations legitimize their relationship to the governments which support them? In what circumstances might such journalists resist the diplomatic strategies of their funding states? We address these questions through a comparative study of journalists working for international news organizations funded by the Chinese, US, UK and Qatari governments. Using 52 interviews wi…
Our newsroom in the cloud’: Slack, virtual newsrooms and journalistic practice
Virtual newsrooms have enormous potential: enabling journalists around the world to pool their knowledge, skills and perspectives within joint projects, such as the Panama Papers. These virtual newsrooms are supported by Online Collaborative Software (OCS), the most popular of which is Slack. But although many of the world’s top news organisations now use Slack, there is no empirical research examining its impact on workplace processes or culture…
Data Journalism beyond Majority World Countries: Challenges and Opportunities
This commentary reflects on the state of research on data journalism and discusses future directions for this line of work. Drawing on theory in international development and postcolonial studies, we discuss three critical pitfalls that we encourage future scholarship in this area to avoid. These include using a linear model of progress, in which journalists in Majority World nations struggle to ‘catch up’ to their Minority World counterparts bec…
The Influence of News Coverage on Humanitarian Aid: The Bureaucrats’ Perspective
We examine if and how news coverage influences governments’ humanitarian aid allocations, from the perspective of the senior bureaucrats involved in such decision-making. Using rare in-depth interviews with 30 directors and senior policymakers in 16 of the world’s largest donor countries, we found that the majority of these bureaucrats believed that sudden-onset, national news coverage can increase levels of emergency humanitarian aid allocated t…
Foundation-funded Journalism, Philanthrocapitalism and Tainted Donors
Not-for-profit news organisations are increasingly funded by private foundations, supported by wealthy entrepreneurs. This raises a range of ethical dilemmas for journalists, which are particularly serious when their donors are alleged to have been involved in unethical or illegal activities. Although this is a relatively common occurrence in the non-profit sector, so far there has been no critical discussion of these issues in relation to founda…
These Grey Areas”: How and why freelance work blurs Ingos and news organizations
International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) are known to employ freelancers to produce multimedia and to pitch it for them to mainstream news outlets. So it seems odd that research about the blurring of news organizations and INGOs has been largely focused upon the practices of full-time staff at these kinds of organizations. To help fill this lacuna, this article constructs a model capable of interrogating the multiple forms of structur…
Helping our beneficiaries tell their own stories?’ International aid agencies and the politics of voice within news production
International aid agencies often claim to give the poor and disenfranchised a voice by helping them tell their stories to others located far away. But how do aid workers conceptualize and operationalize a politics of voice within media production processes? How do ideas about giving voice to others shape aid agencies’ engagement with mainstream news organizations? This article explores two contrasting news production case studies which took place…
Mentoring in the Time of Covid‐19: An Analysis of Online Focus Groups with Mentors to Youth
This study explored the experiences of mentors to youth during the early months of the COVID‐19 pandemic. The study aims were to examine (1) the role of the pandemic on mentor–mentee interactions and relationships and (2) the ways in which mentors could be supported during the health crisis to better meet youth needs. Six online focus groups were conducted with 39 mentors. Mentor participants included 26 females and 11 males (two did not disclose…
Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene: More-than-human encounters
Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene' offers a new perspective on inter~ national environmental scholarship, focusing on the emotional and affective connections between human and nonhuman lives to reveal fresh connections between global issues of climate change, species extinction and colonisation. Combining the rhythm of road travel, interviews with local Aboriginal Elders and autobiographical storytelling, the book develops a new form…
In the Shadow of a Willow Tree: A Community Garden Experiment in Decolonising, Multispecies Research
In 2014 I commenced a postdoctoral project that involved collaboratively planting and maintaining a community garden on a block of land that was once part of the East Armidale Aboriginal Reserve in the so-called New England Tableland region of New South Wales, Australia. At the edge of this block of land is an introduced, invasive willow tree. In this article I write with and alongside the willow tree to interrogate the potential and limitations …
Listening to suffering: What might ‘proper distance’ have to do with radio news
This article investigates whether Roger Silverstone’s notion of ‘proper distance’ provides the conceptual tools which are needed to assess the qualitative nature of radio listeners’ responses to mediated representations of suffering – a vital issue in radio research, given the dependence of most critical theory about journalistic depictions of suffering on ideas of the visual. Specifically, it seeks to address practitioners’ and theorists’ concer…
Women's Help-Seeking and Service Experiences: Sexual Revictimization in Regional and Rural Areas
While literature on sexual revictimization is extensive, data on women's help-seeking and service experiences in regional/rural areas is scarce, particularly within Australia. This paper aims to fill this gap by examining the help-seeking journeys of victim/survivors of sexual revictimization in regional and rural Victoria, Australia. Using a material feminist approach, semi-structured interviews with victim/survivors ( N = 11) were analyzed to u…
The normalisation of sexual violence revictimisation in regional and rural areas: Our failure to respond
Sexual revictimisation has devastating consequences for victim/survivors, yet there is limited research exploring women's experience of revictimisation in regional/rural areas. Using a community‐based participatory research (CBPR) approach, this paper reports on a qualitative study that employed a material feminist lens and Nixon's theory of “slow violence” to explore women's lived experiences of sexual revictimisation. In‐depth interviews were c…
Rhythms of Law: Aboriginal Jurisprudence and the Anthropocene
Should journalists be ‘virtuous’? Mainstream news, complex media organisations and the work of Nick Couldry
Critical debates about whether it is possible to formulate a ‘global media ethics’ have now become pressing given the increasing blurriness between some kinds of media practices, the transnational implications of the News International phone-hacking scandal, and the existence of a range of serious transnational problems, such as conflict, climate change and the recent global economic crisis. This article attempts to question Couldry’s recent asse…
Reality Without Scare Quotes: Developing the case for critical realism in journalism research
This article builds on initial arguments about the advantages of using Critical Realism as an underpinning ontology in Journalism Studies, by discussing its compatibility with practical journalistic teaching and some aspects of constructivism, its grounds for political and ethical engagement, and its ability to open up new avenues of research in journalism research. In particular, it advances ideas about the ways in which Critical Realism allows …
Listening to suffering: What might ‘proper distance’ have to do with radio news
This article investigates whether Roger Silverstone’s notion of ‘proper distance’ provides the conceptual tools which are needed to assess the qualitative nature of radio listeners’ responses to mediated representations of suffering – a vital issue in radio research, given the dependence of most critical theory about journalistic depictions of suffering on ideas of the visual. Specifically, it seeks to address practitioners’ and theorists’ concer…
Should journalists be ‘virtuous’? Mainstream news, complex media organisations and the work of Nick Couldry
Critical debates about whether it is possible to formulate a ‘global media ethics’ have now become pressing given the increasing blurriness between some kinds of media practices, the transnational implications of the News International phone-hacking scandal, and the existence of a range of serious transnational problems, such as conflict, climate change and the recent global economic crisis. This article attempts to question Couldry’s recent asse…
Becoming-with
These Grey Areas”: How and why freelance work blurs Ingos and news organizations
International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) are known to employ freelancers to produce multimedia and to pitch it for them to mainstream news outlets. So it seems odd that research about the blurring of news organizations and INGOs has been largely focused upon the practices of full-time staff at these kinds of organizations. To help fill this lacuna, this article constructs a model capable of interrogating the multiple forms of structur…
Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene: More-than-human encounters
Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene' offers a new perspective on inter~ national environmental scholarship, focusing on the emotional and affective connections between human and nonhuman lives to reveal fresh connections between global issues of climate change, species extinction and colonisation. Combining the rhythm of road travel, interviews with local Aboriginal Elders and autobiographical storytelling, the book develops a new form…
Our newsroom in the cloud’: Slack, virtual newsrooms and journalistic practice
Virtual newsrooms have enormous potential: enabling journalists around the world to pool their knowledge, skills and perspectives within joint projects, such as the Panama Papers. These virtual newsrooms are supported by Online Collaborative Software (OCS), the most popular of which is Slack. But although many of the world’s top news organisations now use Slack, there is no empirical research examining its impact on workplace processes or culture…
Donor Power and the News: The Influence of Foundation Funding on International Public Service Journalism
How does donor funding affect the independence, role perceptions, and ideology of the journalism it supports? We begin to answer this increasingly important but underresearched question with a year-long case study of the humanitarian news organistion IRIN as it transitioned from being funded by the United Nations to a private foundation, run by a Malaysian billionaire. Using content analysis, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic research, we doc…
Foundation-funded Journalism, Philanthrocapitalism and Tainted Donors
Not-for-profit news organisations are increasingly funded by private foundations, supported by wealthy entrepreneurs. This raises a range of ethical dilemmas for journalists, which are particularly serious when their donors are alleged to have been involved in unethical or illegal activities. Although this is a relatively common occurrence in the non-profit sector, so far there has been no critical discussion of these issues in relation to founda…
Helping our beneficiaries tell their own stories?’ International aid agencies and the politics of voice within news production
International aid agencies often claim to give the poor and disenfranchised a voice by helping them tell their stories to others located far away. But how do aid workers conceptualize and operationalize a politics of voice within media production processes? How do ideas about giving voice to others shape aid agencies’ engagement with mainstream news organizations? This article explores two contrasting news production case studies which took place…
In the Shadow of a Willow Tree: A Community Garden Experiment in Decolonising, Multispecies Research
In 2014 I commenced a postdoctoral project that involved collaboratively planting and maintaining a community garden on a block of land that was once part of the East Armidale Aboriginal Reserve in the so-called New England Tableland region of New South Wales, Australia. At the edge of this block of land is an introduced, invasive willow tree. In this article I write with and alongside the willow tree to interrogate the potential and limitations …
Data Journalism beyond Majority World Countries: Challenges and Opportunities
This commentary reflects on the state of research on data journalism and discusses future directions for this line of work. Drawing on theory in international development and postcolonial studies, we discuss three critical pitfalls that we encourage future scholarship in this area to avoid. These include using a linear model of progress, in which journalists in Majority World nations struggle to ‘catch up’ to their Minority World counterparts bec…
Foundation Funding and the Boundaries of Journalism
Private foundations are an important source of funding for many news outlets. It has even been suggested that they may offer a partial solution to journalism’s economic crisis. Yet we do not know how foundation funding shapes journalistic practice. In this article, we show that foundation funding has a significant effect on the “boundaries of journalism”. That is, the ways in which journalists understand, value and practice their journalism. This…
Debbie’s Gift
I attended Debbie’s last public lecture at the Australian Museum in Sydney in 2018. I remember her saying ‘the gift of life is a gift that must keep moving’ (‘Gifts’). For Debbie, the gift of life was a way of expressing the complex entanglement of ethics, time, relationality, entropy, energy, memory, culture, and inheritance, in living, mortal systems. The gift of life is not something we choose or something we can opt out of. The gift is fundam…
Rhythms of Law: Aboriginal Jurisprudence and the Anthropocene
Soft Power, Hard News: How Journalists at State-Funded Transnational Media Legitimize Their Work
How do journalists working for different state-funded international news organizations legitimize their relationship to the governments which support them? In what circumstances might such journalists resist the diplomatic strategies of their funding states? We address these questions through a comparative study of journalists working for international news organizations funded by the Chinese, US, UK and Qatari governments. Using 52 interviews wi…
The Influence of News Coverage on Humanitarian Aid: The Bureaucrats’ Perspective
We examine if and how news coverage influences governments’ humanitarian aid allocations, from the perspective of the senior bureaucrats involved in such decision-making. Using rare in-depth interviews with 30 directors and senior policymakers in 16 of the world’s largest donor countries, we found that the majority of these bureaucrats believed that sudden-onset, national news coverage can increase levels of emergency humanitarian aid allocated t…
Attending to cardiovascular disease risk factors after incarceration: A study of empowerment and structural barriers to care
Incarceration in the United States is associated with high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and elevated CVD risk continues into the immediate period following release from prison. One reason may be that people who are released from incarceration experience difficulties accessing healthcare and navigating the healthcare system. We use empowerment theory to describe the experiences of people after release from incarceration who h…
Mentoring in the Time of Covid‐19: An Analysis of Online Focus Groups with Mentors to Youth
This study explored the experiences of mentors to youth during the early months of the COVID‐19 pandemic. The study aims were to examine (1) the role of the pandemic on mentor–mentee interactions and relationships and (2) the ways in which mentors could be supported during the health crisis to better meet youth needs. Six online focus groups were conducted with 39 mentors. Mentor participants included 26 females and 11 males (two did not disclose…
The Laundromat Poem, and: Ars Poetica After a Wisdom Tooth Extraction, and: Sestina in Which I Miss My Hometown, and: Bachelor Pantoum
The Laundromat Poem, and: Ars Poetica After a Wisdom Tooth Extraction, and: Sestina in Which I Miss My Hometown, and: Bachelor Pantoum Kate Wright (bio) THE LAUNDROMAT POEM You might / have your very own matching washer-and-dryer set at home / and never have need for this love song to the lavandería. –Nikky Finney "From the Washhouse Files" Every other Sunday starting my junior year, you could find mefolding my fresh clothes at the local laundrom…
Making Urban Environments: Infrastructures of Power, Resistance and Negotiation
As scholars from the fields of history, anthropology and animal studies, as well as landscape planning and management, we discuss various forms of urban and urbanising infrastructures and their political entanglements. Questioning and illuminating how various actors and their practices build and shape urban environments, we address topics ranging from the black soldier fly - used as biotechnological infrastructure to manage waste - to other nonhu…
Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone
The normalisation of sexual violence revictimisation in regional and rural areas: Our failure to respond
Sexual revictimisation has devastating consequences for victim/survivors, yet there is limited research exploring women's experience of revictimisation in regional/rural areas. Using a community‐based participatory research (CBPR) approach, this paper reports on a qualitative study that employed a material feminist lens and Nixon's theory of “slow violence” to explore women's lived experiences of sexual revictimisation. In‐depth interviews were c…
The power of social media activism in the #YesAllWomen Movement
Social media has played a significant role in activism, with hashtags becoming a powerful tool for community organizing and raising awareness about social and political issues. Twitter, now X, supported the rise of hashtag activism. The hashtag #YesAllWomen gained widespread attention in 2014 after the murder of six women in retribution for one man’s feelings of rejection. Women used #YesAllWomen to publicly share experiences with sexism, harassm…
"Beyond “Emergencies?" Reporting on Humanitarian Issues Around the World
How do journalists around the world report on humanitarian issues? Two decades after Calhoun first wrote about the “emergency imaginary”, it is still seen as a “master frame”, dominating narratives about humanitarian action in news and aid work alike. But no one has previously tested the extent to which the emergency imaginary dominates journalism about humanitarian issues within a largescale, systematic study. Using an innovative combination of …
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