Jessica Gantt-Shafer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Gantt-Shafer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Gantt-Shafer |
| SIGNATURE | GANTT-SHAFER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1902-7241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Paradoxes and postbureaucracy
When data is dangerous
In this article, we question how increasingly invasive emerging technologies will continue to shape, shift, benefit and/or constrain social movement organizing. In particular, we refer to organizations involved in the current abortion access movement in post- Roe America. In this particular political climate, as the corporate demand for personal data grows alongside state surveillance, we wonder how organizations directly offering services, resou…
Immaterial intimacy
Outside of visible moments of mass mobilization, ongoing latent work, such as direct service and mutual aid, is a long-standing tradition in social movements. Yet, like all labor, personal digital devices have changed the norms and practices of direct service social movement work. In this article, as situated in the technology–media–movement complex (TMMC), I analyze qualitative interview data ( N = 26) with volunteers from a yearlong ethnographi…
Everyday Practices, Unaffordable Rights, Radical Liberation
In post- Roe America, access to reproductive care is rapidly dwindling, with the criminalization of abortion on the rise. Yet, in these frustrating and perilous times, organizations, activists, and volunteers facilitate access to care every day via digital direct service activism. This article is a meditation on the transformational nature of direct service praxis in the contemporary reproductive justice movement. To document my own ongoing trans…
“They Just Went After Us
In this study, I explore how organizers at an abortion fund use new media to create communication outreach about abortion and their hotline service. The data for this study includes one year of digital ethnographic work as a hotline volunteer at the abortion fund, along with in-depth interviews with the fund’s advocacy team. The fund organizers want to appeal to supporters, protect and empower communities, confront systemic oppression, and dispel…
Intersectionality, (Dis)unity, and Processes of Becoming at the 2017 Women's March
This article engages with theories of intersectionality, affect, and emotion, which often have been separated in scholarship on social movements, to understand the participation of diverse voices in the Women’s March on Washington and sister marches in Austin and Dallas, Texas. Based on interviews and participant observation, we argue that people’s multiple entry points to these marches—often articulated in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, …
Donald Trump's 'Political Incorrectness
President Donald Trump's popularized 'political incorrectness' has become a signifier allowing for backstage, or overt, racist sentiments to become steadily normalized as logical in the public frontstage of political discourse and social media. This normalization is possible under the guise of neoliberal truth telling. Highly racialized public issues such as immigration and relations between the US and Mexico lead to conversations in which 'polit…
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship
Donald Trump's 'Political Incorrectness
President Donald Trump's popularized 'political incorrectness' has become a signifier allowing for backstage, or overt, racist sentiments to become steadily normalized as logical in the public frontstage of political discourse and social media. This normalization is possible under the guise of neoliberal truth telling. Highly racialized public issues such as immigration and relations between the US and Mexico lead to conversations in which 'polit…
Intersectionality, (Dis)unity, and Processes of Becoming at the 2017 Women's March
This article engages with theories of intersectionality, affect, and emotion, which often have been separated in scholarship on social movements, to understand the participation of diverse voices in the Women’s March on Washington and sister marches in Austin and Dallas, Texas. Based on interviews and participant observation, we argue that people’s multiple entry points to these marches—often articulated in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, …
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship
Donald Trump's 'Political Incorrectness
President Donald Trump's popularized 'political incorrectness' has become a signifier allowing for backstage, or overt, racist sentiments to become steadily normalized as logical in the public frontstage of political discourse and social media. This normalization is possible under the guise of neoliberal truth telling. Highly racialized public issues such as immigration and relations between the US and Mexico lead to conversations in which 'polit…
Intersectionality, (Dis)unity, and Processes of Becoming at the 2017 Women's March
This article engages with theories of intersectionality, affect, and emotion, which often have been separated in scholarship on social movements, to understand the participation of diverse voices in the Women’s March on Washington and sister marches in Austin and Dallas, Texas. Based on interviews and participant observation, we argue that people’s multiple entry points to these marches—often articulated in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, …
“They Just Went After Us
In this study, I explore how organizers at an abortion fund use new media to create communication outreach about abortion and their hotline service. The data for this study includes one year of digital ethnographic work as a hotline volunteer at the abortion fund, along with in-depth interviews with the fund’s advocacy team. The fund organizers want to appeal to supporters, protect and empower communities, confront systemic oppression, and dispel…
When data is dangerous
In this article, we question how increasingly invasive emerging technologies will continue to shape, shift, benefit and/or constrain social movement organizing. In particular, we refer to organizations involved in the current abortion access movement in post- Roe America. In this particular political climate, as the corporate demand for personal data grows alongside state surveillance, we wonder how organizations directly offering services, resou…
Immaterial intimacy
Outside of visible moments of mass mobilization, ongoing latent work, such as direct service and mutual aid, is a long-standing tradition in social movements. Yet, like all labor, personal digital devices have changed the norms and practices of direct service social movement work. In this article, as situated in the technology–media–movement complex (TMMC), I analyze qualitative interview data ( N = 26) with volunteers from a yearlong ethnographi…
Everyday Practices, Unaffordable Rights, Radical Liberation
In post- Roe America, access to reproductive care is rapidly dwindling, with the criminalization of abortion on the rise. Yet, in these frustrating and perilous times, organizations, activists, and volunteers facilitate access to care every day via digital direct service activism. This article is a meditation on the transformational nature of direct service praxis in the contemporary reproductive justice movement. To document my own ongoing trans…
Paradoxes and postbureaucracy
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Abortion (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Business (2 works)