F Sobande
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 58315 |
|---|---|
| NOME | F Sobande |
| PRENOMES | F |
| SOBRENOME | Sobande |
| ASSINATURA | SOBANDE F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4788-4099 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Lofi Girl, cultural politics, and dichotomies of digital slowness and productivity
Contemporary culture is saturated with artefacts that propose ways of navigating competing temporal demands. While formations such as cosy games, cottagecore and the tradwife ideal promise respite by slowing down, they sit alongside right‐wing accelerationism and Silicon Valley’s ‘all‐gas‐no‐brakes’ ethos. These contradictory temporal politics rest on the false premise that time is equally accessible, masking how capitalist, racialized, gendered …
Note to scene
Twenty years on from its mainstream breakthrough, the popularity of emo music has resurged, offering new opportunities to appraise its cultural legacy. While acknowledging the creative and cathartic qualities of emo as fans, we reflect on how the intersections of race and gender have (not) been thoroughly engaged with in prior research on the genre. We also demonstrate how improvements concerning representation in emo are still constrained, with …
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Demands, displays, and dreams of "Black joy" during times of crisis
Based on collaborative research and reflections on media depictions, marketplace experiences, and Black life in Belgium and Britain, this article embraces Black joy, while critiquing societal demands and (re)presentations of it. Informed by scholarship on racialised emotions, Black interiority, and Black emotional epistemologies, we analyse how the idea of "Black joy" has been (re)presented in media in ways connected to racialised, classed, and n…
Big Brands Are Watching You
Big Brands Are Watching You
How is morality understood in the marketplace? Why do brands speak out about certain issues of injustice and not others? And what is influencer culture’s role in social and political activism? Big Brands Are Watching You investigates corporate culture, from the branding of companies and nations to television portrayals of big business and the workplace. Francesca Sobande analyzes media, interviews, survey responses, and ephemera from the history …
Black media nostalgia in Britain
Drawing on Black media, cultural, and digital studies, this work considers the relationship between nostalgia and the media, cultural productions, and experiences of Black people in Britain. Engaging with Since Hesse (2000, p. 97) observed that 'Black Britishness is a discourse whose increasing currency has yet to be conceptualized seriously', research and writing on Black Britishness and Black life in Britain has significantly expanded. Informed…
White and gendered aesthetics and attitudes of #pandemicbaking and #quarantinebaking
Foodwork is a political matter, and baking is no exception. Many messages are associated with the symbolic significance of baking, such as idealised notions of white, middle-class domesticity, femininity and visibility. The rise in home-baking during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a surge in social media content, which conveys much about the different meanings ascribed to baking. Relatedly, scholarship on ‘COVID-19 foodwork, race, gender, clas…
Challengers
Challengers is filled with depictions of desire and the power of perception. It continues Luca Guadagnino’s cinematic work, known for lushly lingering in the ‘what ifs’ of life and love. Challengers portrays the back and forth dynamic of intimacy and competition in the exclusive world of professional tennis. Throughout the film are references to heat and coldness, and forms of watching and being watched. Addressing that, I reflect on the fire and…
Ideology as/of Platform Affordance and Black Feminist Conceptualizations of “Canceling
As Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter highlights, platforms’ affordances extend further than UI choices and content formats emphasized. Extant work addresses that political perspectives are implicated in the affordances of platforms; however, the notion of “ideology as/of affordance” requires more scholarly attention, namely, from a Black feminist position which grapples with the raced and gendered dimensions of how such shaping of affordances is un…
Ethico-racial positioning in campaigns for Covid-19 research and vaccination featuring public figures
This article analyses a set of videos which featured public figures encouraging racially minoritised people in the UK to take the COVID-19 vaccine or get involved in related research. As racially targeted health communication has both potentially beneficial and problematic consequences, it is important to examine this uniquely high-profile case. Using a purposive sample of 10 videos, our thematic content analysis aimed to reveal how racially mino…
Beyond Bame, WOC, and ‘political blackness’”
What forms of opacity and excess propel Black and South Asian digital diasporic feminist cultures of commoning and communing? This article explores digital expressions of retreat, refusal, remixing, and reclamation which are central to diasporic feminist practices. We analyze three illustrative digital practices via two vignettes: (1) Quote tweets and digital anonymity as expressions of subaltern excess; (2) diasporic meme culture as a callout pr…
The digital nesting of Black feminism
The end of Twitter has been declared nigh but digital home-making is about much more than a single site. SituatingSince its contentious acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022, the social media company Twitter (now known as X) has shifted in ways that sparked an exodus.Despite its numbers fluctuating and its brand image being irreparably altered, the social network site remains a digital space where many people dwell.Put briefly, Twitter continues to be…
Intersectional Vulnerabilities and the Banality of Harm
In this article we examine how intersectional vulnerabilities are experienced and made sense of by women of color activists in Europe. We name intersectional vulnerabilities as a broad, sometimes contradictory, set of emotions, all tied to activists' complex experiences of insecurity and community. Intersectional vulnerabilities are those risks and rewards, derived from women of color activists' positioning in relation to race, class, gender, sex…
Black, Brown and Asian cultural workers, creativity and activism
How do cultural and creative workers respond to racism and the politics of representation and respectability in the digital age? In what ways do they engage in forms of community-building and solidarity-making, while managing pressures to build digital presence and personal brands? This article seeks to address these questions via 30 in-depth interviews with Black, Brown and Asian (BBA) workers in the UK cultural and creative industries (CCIs). F…
Black Oot Here
What does it mean to be Black in Scotland today? How are notions of nationhood, Scottishness, and Britishness implicated in this? Why is it important to archive and understand Black Scottish history? Reflecting on the past to make sense of the present, Francesca Sobande and layla-roxanne hill explore the history and contemporary lives of Black people in Scotland. Based on intergenerational interviews, survey responses, photography, and analysis o…
Come and get a taste of normal’
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to present unique challenges to governments and organisations around the world, but one sector has incorporated COVID-19 into its core mission with relative ease: advertisers have acknowledged the pandemic while continuing to draw on notions of 'normality' to activate our desire to consume. As the UK's series of lockdowns have come to an end, we look back over more than a year of unusual adver…
The hypervisibility and discourses of ‘wokeness’ in digital culture
From its origins in Black grassroots activist and political consciousness raising spaces, the term ‘woke’ has shifted in its significance. Now broadly synonymous with statements on social media that are assumed to indicate an investment in tackling social injustices, specifically, antiblackness and racial injustice, it has also become the subject of heated critique. Using key case studies such as the ‘I take responsibility’ and Instagram ‘blackou…
The celebrity whitewashing of Black Lives Matter and social injustices
This work examines aspects of the relationship between whiteness, celebrity culture, and contemporary media content and conversations concerning Black Lives Matter (BLM). Focusing on two key examples, it explores how the perspectives of white celebrities receive visibility, praise, and critique amid mediated discourse on BLM and social injustices. This piece considers the ‘novelty’ of white celebrities alluding to and articulating their whiteness…
Social Emotions and the Legitimation of the Fertility Technology Market
Using the sociology of emotions, we investigate the role of social emotions as a legitimating force in the market. In a longitudinal study of the media coverage surrounding US fertility technologies, we find that legitimation involves the establishment of hierarchies among feeling rules, which dictate what social emotions are expressed toward markets, consumers, and technologies. We delineate three mechanisms (polarizing, reifying, and transformi…
The Politics of Digital Peace, Play, and Privacy during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Spectacularized and Branded Digital (Re)presentations of Black People and Blackness
Digital racism and the online experiences of Black people have been foregrounded in vital contemporary research, particularly Black scholarship and critical race and digital studies. As digital developments occur rapidly there is a need for work which theorizes recent expressions of digital anti-Blackness, including since increased marketing industry interest in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in 2020. This paper explores digital racism rel…
Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain
Based on an in-depth discussion between us (six Black PhD and early career researchers), this work explores burgeoning Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain. Our article is rooted in dialogue about Black feminist digital culture, communications, aesthetics, joy, and our different yet interconnected scholarly experiences. We consider who and what shapes the work that we do, the way we approach it, and how it has developed in recent y…
Screening Black Lives Matter
The proliferation of popular culture depictions of Black Lives Matter (BLM) yields questions about media and marketing professionals’ (mis)use of representations and rhetoric associated with social justice movements, and, more precisely, Black activism. This commentary is titled “Screening Black Lives Matter” in an attempt to: 1) reflect on how BLM has been re-mediated and re-presented on screen in mainstream media and popular culture, and 2) con…
The internet’s “transnational” boyfriend
This article explores online (re)presentations of famous men and masculinities, and the surrounding concept of “the internet’s boyfriend”. The work examines how such discourse is shaped by global dynamics, structural racism, an “economy of visibility”, and demand for depictions of “difference.” Drawing on studies of celebrity, masculinities, marketing, and digital culture, I analyse how three famous men who are publicly desired and/or admired are…
We’re all in this together’
The current COVID-19 (coronavirus) global pandemic has resulted in a wave of advertising and marketing approaches that are based on commodified concepts of human connection, care and community in a time of crisis. At the core of many brands’ marketing messages – whether these be supermarket advertising campaigns or celebrity self-branding – is the notion that ‘we’re all in this together’. While it is true that the impact of COVID-19 has affected …
Resisting media marginalisation
Based on analysis of 23 interviews, this paper examines how social media and online content is implicated in the collective, resistant and transnational media experiences of Black women in Britain. It contributes to scholarship concerning race and the virtual marketplace by examining tensions between the countercultural, communal and commercial qualities of Black women's online experiences. Drawing upon theorising of the oppositional spectator ga…
Watching me watching you
YouTube and video bloggers (vloggers) have been a source of academic interest, yet few studies explore the representation or experiences of Black women on YouTube. The video blogs (vlogs) of Black women yield symbolic digital resources which young Black women may engage with in self-exploratory, self-educating, resistant and collective ways. This article reflects on 21 in-depth interviews with young Black women in Britain, aged 19-33 years. It ad…
The poetic identity work and sisterhood of Black women becoming academics
Studies highlight institutional structures that hamper the recruitment, retention, and progression of Black university students and scholars in Britain. Yet, scarce research explores the nuanced encounters of Black women who are early career (Ph.D.) researchers, facing entangled oppressions. Located in a Black feminist tradition and by drawing on two Black women's (our) accounts of co-reflexive identity work in academia, this article addresses ca…
The hypervisibility and discourses of ‘wokeness’ in digital culture
From its origins in Black grassroots activist and political consciousness raising spaces, the term ‘woke’ has shifted in its significance. Now broadly synonymous with statements on social media that are assumed to indicate an investment in tackling social injustices, specifically, antiblackness and racial injustice, it has also become the subject of heated critique. Using key case studies such as the ‘I take responsibility’ and Instagram ‘blackou…
Spectacularized and Branded Digital (Re)presentations of Black People and Blackness
Digital racism and the online experiences of Black people have been foregrounded in vital contemporary research, particularly Black scholarship and critical race and digital studies. As digital developments occur rapidly there is a need for work which theorizes recent expressions of digital anti-Blackness, including since increased marketing industry interest in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in 2020. This paper explores digital racism rel…
Social Emotions and the Legitimation of the Fertility Technology Market
Using the sociology of emotions, we investigate the role of social emotions as a legitimating force in the market. In a longitudinal study of the media coverage surrounding US fertility technologies, we find that legitimation involves the establishment of hierarchies among feeling rules, which dictate what social emotions are expressed toward markets, consumers, and technologies. We delineate three mechanisms (polarizing, reifying, and transformi…
Demands, displays, and dreams of "Black joy" during times of crisis
Based on collaborative research and reflections on media depictions, marketplace experiences, and Black life in Belgium and Britain, this article embraces Black joy, while critiquing societal demands and (re)presentations of it. Informed by scholarship on racialised emotions, Black interiority, and Black emotional epistemologies, we analyse how the idea of "Black joy" has been (re)presented in media in ways connected to racialised, classed, and n…
Beyond Bame, WOC, and ‘political blackness’”
What forms of opacity and excess propel Black and South Asian digital diasporic feminist cultures of commoning and communing? This article explores digital expressions of retreat, refusal, remixing, and reclamation which are central to diasporic feminist practices. We analyze three illustrative digital practices via two vignettes: (1) Quote tweets and digital anonymity as expressions of subaltern excess; (2) diasporic meme culture as a callout pr…
Intersectional Vulnerabilities and the Banality of Harm
In this article we examine how intersectional vulnerabilities are experienced and made sense of by women of color activists in Europe. We name intersectional vulnerabilities as a broad, sometimes contradictory, set of emotions, all tied to activists' complex experiences of insecurity and community. Intersectional vulnerabilities are those risks and rewards, derived from women of color activists' positioning in relation to race, class, gender, sex…
Black, Brown and Asian cultural workers, creativity and activism
How do cultural and creative workers respond to racism and the politics of representation and respectability in the digital age? In what ways do they engage in forms of community-building and solidarity-making, while managing pressures to build digital presence and personal brands? This article seeks to address these questions via 30 in-depth interviews with Black, Brown and Asian (BBA) workers in the UK cultural and creative industries (CCIs). F…
Awkward Black girls and post-feminist possibilities
Focusing on television depictions of 'millennial' Black women, this article explores how such on-screen identities are crafted through entwined issues concerning race, gender, sexuality and feminism. Theorising post-feminism in this contemporary context necessitates discussion of post-feminism's (dis)connection to and from Black feminism and the politics of intersectionality. Thus, this article examines how Black feminist and post-feminist media …
The internet’s “transnational” boyfriend
This article explores online (re)presentations of famous men and masculinities, and the surrounding concept of “the internet’s boyfriend”. The work examines how such discourse is shaped by global dynamics, structural racism, an “economy of visibility”, and demand for depictions of “difference.” Drawing on studies of celebrity, masculinities, marketing, and digital culture, I analyse how three famous men who are publicly desired and/or admired are…
How to get away with authenticity
By focusing on the star image of Viola Davis, this article explores intersecting narratives concerning authenticity, Blackness, celebrity, and embodiment, which are revealed as part of media and public responses to famous Black actresses. Discourses of race and fame are unpacked whilst scrutinising overlapping perceptions of naturalness, femininity and relatability. Building upon prior studies of the socio-cultural impact of celebrities’ hair, th…
White and gendered aesthetics and attitudes of #pandemicbaking and #quarantinebaking
Foodwork is a political matter, and baking is no exception. Many messages are associated with the symbolic significance of baking, such as idealised notions of white, middle-class domesticity, femininity and visibility. The rise in home-baking during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a surge in social media content, which conveys much about the different meanings ascribed to baking. Relatedly, scholarship on ‘COVID-19 foodwork, race, gender, clas…
Ideology as/of Platform Affordance and Black Feminist Conceptualizations of “Canceling
As Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter highlights, platforms’ affordances extend further than UI choices and content formats emphasized. Extant work addresses that political perspectives are implicated in the affordances of platforms; however, the notion of “ideology as/of affordance” requires more scholarly attention, namely, from a Black feminist position which grapples with the raced and gendered dimensions of how such shaping of affordances is un…
Ethico-racial positioning in campaigns for Covid-19 research and vaccination featuring public figures
This article analyses a set of videos which featured public figures encouraging racially minoritised people in the UK to take the COVID-19 vaccine or get involved in related research. As racially targeted health communication has both potentially beneficial and problematic consequences, it is important to examine this uniquely high-profile case. Using a purposive sample of 10 videos, our thematic content analysis aimed to reveal how racially mino…
The digital nesting of Black feminism
The end of Twitter has been declared nigh but digital home-making is about much more than a single site. SituatingSince its contentious acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022, the social media company Twitter (now known as X) has shifted in ways that sparked an exodus.Despite its numbers fluctuating and its brand image being irreparably altered, the social network site remains a digital space where many people dwell.Put briefly, Twitter continues to be…
Come and get a taste of normal’
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to present unique challenges to governments and organisations around the world, but one sector has incorporated COVID-19 into its core mission with relative ease: advertisers have acknowledged the pandemic while continuing to draw on notions of 'normality' to activate our desire to consume. As the UK's series of lockdowns have come to an end, we look back over more than a year of unusual adver…
The celebrity whitewashing of Black Lives Matter and social injustices
This work examines aspects of the relationship between whiteness, celebrity culture, and contemporary media content and conversations concerning Black Lives Matter (BLM). Focusing on two key examples, it explores how the perspectives of white celebrities receive visibility, praise, and critique amid mediated discourse on BLM and social injustices. This piece considers the ‘novelty’ of white celebrities alluding to and articulating their whiteness…
Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain
Based on an in-depth discussion between us (six Black PhD and early career researchers), this work explores burgeoning Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain. Our article is rooted in dialogue about Black feminist digital culture, communications, aesthetics, joy, and our different yet interconnected scholarly experiences. We consider who and what shapes the work that we do, the way we approach it, and how it has developed in recent y…
Femvertising and fast fashion
As part of the following commentary there is consideration of how the mainstreaming of ‘intersectional feminism’ is implicated in allegedly ‘feminist advertising’ by fast fashion brands H&M, Boohoo and Missguided, ultimately to generate profit. Feminist thought has involved critique of how capitalist systems are entangled with sexist structures that contribute to the subjugation of women (Davis 1981). Nevertheless, despite such contentions, the n…
Watching me watching you
YouTube and video bloggers (vloggers) have been a source of academic interest, yet few studies explore the representation or experiences of Black women on YouTube. The video blogs (vlogs) of Black women yield symbolic digital resources which young Black women may engage with in self-exploratory, self-educating, resistant and collective ways. This article reflects on 21 in-depth interviews with young Black women in Britain, aged 19-33 years. It ad…
In our own words
This chapter is based on the authors’ reflections on co-ordinating creative work, associated zine workshops, and launch as part of The House that Heals the Soul, a 2017 exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow. It focuses on personal experiences of co-organising Yon Afro Collective: In Our Own Words, as co-founders of a Black women-led collective of women of colour in Scotland (Yon Afro Collective). The authors reflexively …
Theorizing Digital Rhetoric, Aaron Hess and Amber Davisson (2018)
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Femvertising and fast fashion
As part of the following commentary there is consideration of how the mainstreaming of ‘intersectional feminism’ is implicated in allegedly ‘feminist advertising’ by fast fashion brands H&M, Boohoo and Missguided, ultimately to generate profit. Feminist thought has involved critique of how capitalist systems are entangled with sexist structures that contribute to the subjugation of women (Davis 1981). Nevertheless, despite such contentions, the n…
Awkward Black girls and post-feminist possibilities
Focusing on television depictions of 'millennial' Black women, this article explores how such on-screen identities are crafted through entwined issues concerning race, gender, sexuality and feminism. Theorising post-feminism in this contemporary context necessitates discussion of post-feminism's (dis)connection to and from Black feminism and the politics of intersectionality. Thus, this article examines how Black feminist and post-feminist media …
How to get away with authenticity
By focusing on the star image of Viola Davis, this article explores intersecting narratives concerning authenticity, Blackness, celebrity, and embodiment, which are revealed as part of media and public responses to famous Black actresses. Discourses of race and fame are unpacked whilst scrutinising overlapping perceptions of naturalness, femininity and relatability. Building upon prior studies of the socio-cultural impact of celebrities’ hair, th…
A Good Life? Critical Feminist Approaches to Influencer Ecologies
Social media platforms are widely lauded as bastions for entrepreneurial self-actualisation and creative autonomy, offering an answer to historically exclusive and hierarchical creative industries as routes to employability and success. Social media influencers are envied by audiences as having achieved ‘the good life’, one in which they are able to ‘do what they love’ for a living (Duffy 2017). Despite this ostensive accessibility and relatabili…
An African City
How do Black women engulf themselves in the politics of being and becoming through everyday existence, aesthetics and media practices in creative, pleasurable, diasporic and resistant ways? How is the hegemony of North America, Eurocentrism, anti-Blackness and sexism implicated in this? We consider such questions in relation to Black women's media and aesthetic practices, and their related scholarship, by examining the Ghana-based web series An A…
We’re all in this together’
The current COVID-19 (coronavirus) global pandemic has resulted in a wave of advertising and marketing approaches that are based on commodified concepts of human connection, care and community in a time of crisis. At the core of many brands’ marketing messages – whether these be supermarket advertising campaigns or celebrity self-branding – is the notion that ‘we’re all in this together’. While it is true that the impact of COVID-19 has affected …
Enacting anti-racist visualities through photo-dialogues on race in Paris
Purpose Grounded in experience of co-organizing a two-day photography-based workshop in Paris, this paper explores how photo-dialogues can facilitate anti-racist pedagogy and generative discussions about how race and racism function in marketplace contexts. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on the authors' involvement in a cross-national and cross-disciplinary team of scholars who worked with local community stakeholders—including acti…
Resisting media marginalisation
Based on analysis of 23 interviews, this paper examines how social media and online content is implicated in the collective, resistant and transnational media experiences of Black women in Britain. It contributes to scholarship concerning race and the virtual marketplace by examining tensions between the countercultural, communal and commercial qualities of Black women's online experiences. Drawing upon theorising of the oppositional spectator ga…
The Politics of Digital Peace, Play, and Privacy during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Spectacularized and Branded Digital (Re)presentations of Black People and Blackness
Digital racism and the online experiences of Black people have been foregrounded in vital contemporary research, particularly Black scholarship and critical race and digital studies. As digital developments occur rapidly there is a need for work which theorizes recent expressions of digital anti-Blackness, including since increased marketing industry interest in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in 2020. This paper explores digital racism rel…
Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain
Based on an in-depth discussion between us (six Black PhD and early career researchers), this work explores burgeoning Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain. Our article is rooted in dialogue about Black feminist digital culture, communications, aesthetics, joy, and our different yet interconnected scholarly experiences. We consider who and what shapes the work that we do, the way we approach it, and how it has developed in recent y…
Screening Black Lives Matter
The proliferation of popular culture depictions of Black Lives Matter (BLM) yields questions about media and marketing professionals’ (mis)use of representations and rhetoric associated with social justice movements, and, more precisely, Black activism. This commentary is titled “Screening Black Lives Matter” in an attempt to: 1) reflect on how BLM has been re-mediated and re-presented on screen in mainstream media and popular culture, and 2) con…
The internet’s “transnational” boyfriend
This article explores online (re)presentations of famous men and masculinities, and the surrounding concept of “the internet’s boyfriend”. The work examines how such discourse is shaped by global dynamics, structural racism, an “economy of visibility”, and demand for depictions of “difference.” Drawing on studies of celebrity, masculinities, marketing, and digital culture, I analyse how three famous men who are publicly desired and/or admired are…
By Us, for Us? Past and Present Black Feminist Publishing Narratives and Routes
From zine-making to creating independent publishing houses, throughout history, Black women have found routes that enable them to autonomously communicate their perspectives and share their Black feminist creative and campaigning work. The ascent of social media and online content-sharing platforms in recent decades has generated publishing avenues that are often deemed to be more democratic than traditional press and print pathways. The rich his…
Cariad [Love]
I’m still not sure what this poem means to me, let alone what it may mean to other people. However, when revisiting this poem nearly a year since writing it, I felt ready to share a few more words. I wrote this poem in the midst of experiencing loss and grief. I wrote it while spending time with family in Scotland, before returning to where I live in South Wales. Truth be told, I did not write it with the intention of contributing to scholarly wo…
The poetic identity work and sisterhood of Black women becoming academics
Studies highlight institutional structures that hamper the recruitment, retention, and progression of Black university students and scholars in Britain. Yet, scarce research explores the nuanced encounters of Black women who are early career (Ph.D.) researchers, facing entangled oppressions. Located in a Black feminist tradition and by drawing on two Black women's (our) accounts of co-reflexive identity work in academia, this article addresses ca…
Black Oot Here
What does it mean to be Black in Scotland today? How are notions of nationhood, Scottishness, and Britishness implicated in this? Why is it important to archive and understand Black Scottish history? Reflecting on the past to make sense of the present, Francesca Sobande and layla-roxanne hill explore the history and contemporary lives of Black people in Scotland. Based on intergenerational interviews, survey responses, photography, and analysis o…
Come and get a taste of normal’
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to present unique challenges to governments and organisations around the world, but one sector has incorporated COVID-19 into its core mission with relative ease: advertisers have acknowledged the pandemic while continuing to draw on notions of 'normality' to activate our desire to consume. As the UK's series of lockdowns have come to an end, we look back over more than a year of unusual adver…
The hypervisibility and discourses of ‘wokeness’ in digital culture
From its origins in Black grassroots activist and political consciousness raising spaces, the term ‘woke’ has shifted in its significance. Now broadly synonymous with statements on social media that are assumed to indicate an investment in tackling social injustices, specifically, antiblackness and racial injustice, it has also become the subject of heated critique. Using key case studies such as the ‘I take responsibility’ and Instagram ‘blackou…
The celebrity whitewashing of Black Lives Matter and social injustices
This work examines aspects of the relationship between whiteness, celebrity culture, and contemporary media content and conversations concerning Black Lives Matter (BLM). Focusing on two key examples, it explores how the perspectives of white celebrities receive visibility, praise, and critique amid mediated discourse on BLM and social injustices. This piece considers the ‘novelty’ of white celebrities alluding to and articulating their whiteness…
Social Emotions and the Legitimation of the Fertility Technology Market
Using the sociology of emotions, we investigate the role of social emotions as a legitimating force in the market. In a longitudinal study of the media coverage surrounding US fertility technologies, we find that legitimation involves the establishment of hierarchies among feeling rules, which dictate what social emotions are expressed toward markets, consumers, and technologies. We delineate three mechanisms (polarizing, reifying, and transformi…
Beyond Bame, WOC, and ‘political blackness’”
What forms of opacity and excess propel Black and South Asian digital diasporic feminist cultures of commoning and communing? This article explores digital expressions of retreat, refusal, remixing, and reclamation which are central to diasporic feminist practices. We analyze three illustrative digital practices via two vignettes: (1) Quote tweets and digital anonymity as expressions of subaltern excess; (2) diasporic meme culture as a callout pr…
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