The affective politics of public digital denunciation

Negotiating intimacy and consent among Chilean youth

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ID19224469
AuthorsClaudia Moreno Standen (0000-0001-5098-0447, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, corresponding author)
Year2026
Publication date2026-05-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14647001261447376
OpenAlexW7161036524
LanguageEN
References cited24

Over the past decade, Chilean youth have turned to funas – public digital denunciations of sexual misconduct – as a contentious yet powerful feminist practice. This article examines how these practices configure intimacy, consent and gendered subjectivities among young heterosexuals in Santiago. Drawing on qualitative research with 60 participants, I argue that funas should be understood not simply as emancipatory or punitive but as ambivalent affective regimes that shape desire, fear and accountability. By bringing together critiques of consent culture, debates on digital denunciation and feminist theories of subjectivity, the article theorises funas as gendered mechanisms that both expand possibilities for feminist justice and reproduce new forms of surveillance and moral regulation. This situated analysis advances feminist theory by conceptualising consent and digital justice as unstable, affectively charged terrains where intimacy and politics are continuously negotiated

Ambivalence · Denunciation · Economic Justice · Feminism · Negotiation · Politics · Punitive damages · Situated · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies

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