The righteous outrage of post-truth anti-feminism: An analysis of TubeCrush and feminist research in and of public space
- Submitting institution
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Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 31161104
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1177/1367549420951574
- Title of journal
- European Journal of Cultural Studies
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- Volume
- (In-press)
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- ISSN
- 1367-5494
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This article locates itself in a heightening of online misogyny experienced by feminist researchers. The article does so through the response to the TubeCrush as Connected Intimacies project, funded by the British Academy (SG162199, £5,813) and led by Evans. The findings of this project were widely reported in several prominent publications, including a write up of the project in The Daily Mail (print and online, the most visited English-language newspaper website). The online piece on the Daily Mail website received 2400 comments and 22,000 shares, presenting a naturally occurring public engagement with feminist research. This new data on the project was analysed in this article.
The article provides an account of what the authors call a ‘righteous’ outrage. Righteous outrage is discussed as an affect that positions itself as morally correct and marginal by borrowing from feminist and progressive terminology to discredit feminist research. This righteous outrage is analysed in the 2400 comments on the TubeCrush project through a guiding framework that understands affect as both social and psychic.
The article is important in extending discussions of online misogyny, since it 1) recognises new forms of misogyny, that are connected to but different from feminist researchers’ accounts of death and rape threats, 2) develops a language for feminist researchers to make sense of online misogyny, and 2) uses this language to analyse the undoing of feminist research in the public realm.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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