Embodying Cyberspace: Making the Personal Political in Digital Places

Wendy Harcourt () and Ximena Argüello Calle ()
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Wendy Harcourt: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ximena Argüello Calle: Erasmus University Rotterdam

Chapter Chapter 5 in Feminist Methodologies, 2022, pp 83-112 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Our chapter builds on an intergenerational transnational exchange about how feminists can create safe places of engagement via the internet as part of embodied active research processes. We tell two stories separated by over two decades that illustrate how safe feminist and queer places are co-created and embodied as vital for connections and communication in cyberspace. Inspired by feminist geographies, we employ the term “place” as a term to explain a virtual sense of belonging where people could explore possibilities of embodied politics within cyberspace. Our two stories illustrate how embodied sexuality and gender power relations are shaped in the digital world. It explores the potential for feminists in online worlds to create places where individual and collective transformative processes are possible.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-82654-3_5

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