Networked Feminisms In The Time Of Covid 19 Reconnecting With The Legacy Of The Witches

Much has been written about the COVID-19 pandemic, including highlighting the exacerbation of gender inequalities. I argue in this thesis that the pandemic was both networked and gendered, consolidating existing trends surrounding the deployment of online technologies for social movements. The experience of the pandemic, I observe, leant on patriarchal capitalist logics that centre individual family life at the centre of society, behind the closed doors of which a gendered division of labour exists, upon which corporate and government policies rely. Owing to the particular nature of the pandemic, and its simultaneous reliance on the home as a safe haven, and on technologies, I argue that there is a need to better understand feminist mobilisations as a reaction and response to a long-term global reproductive crisis. I situate COVID-19 as a symptom and acceleration of this crisis. I draw on Silvia Federici's work on the witch-trials, as the origin story of today's gendered hierarchies between non-work and work. It is from this basis that I argue that the insights of Federici and others on social reproduction and the global social reproductive crisis are of particular relevance to understandings of the pandemic and how feminist movements. -- The networked nature of the pandemic has served to deepen feminist online life, enabling feminists to reach each other through affective care bonds and solidarity, to respond to this immediate crisis. Through a reading of Federici's own construction of a feminist commons as relational and revolutionary I articulate the online feminist commons as a framework to understand contemporary and future feminist movements. I outline three principles to construct the framework of the online feminist commons: autonomous and spontaneous gendered claims-making, affective bonds of care and solidarity; and transboundary responses to the social reproduction crisis. I utilise a series of examples, of local, regional and global feminist mobilisations during COVID-19, to point to the possibility of loosening movement building from geographical strictures and the potential of self reflexive engagement of difference online between feminists, to deepen affective care bonds and solidarity across difference. I am influenced by the Feminism for the 99% and transnational feminists, in this theoretical framework, to capture the complexity of relationships within and between feminist movements and feminists. The framework captures a pattern of commoning behaviour that is transboundary and complex, in conflict with global capitalist logics. Its enduring value is understanding contemporary and future networked feminisms as interconnected and complex social movements, which are autonomous, spontaneous, and bound by complicated interfaces of solidarity and affect.

Various disasters threaten to stop Poppa and the children from getting to the lake in their rattletrap car, but they manage to come up with an ingenious solution to each problem.

In this tale of survival, two women are exiled from their post-apocalyptic village because they have passed their child-bearing years.

'Hiller offers extraordinary resilience and moments of immense, liberatory tenderness. [...] This is a harrowing book, yes, but ultimately, with its invitation to “billow forth the wrecks we hold”, with its emphasis on resistance and joy, it is a staggeringly beautiful piece of life-affirming work.' Stephanie Sy-Quia, The Poetry Review

Forty-one thoughtful and generous contributions by artists, scholars, scientists, and ocean activists in response to the rapidly changing oceans. The ocean is rising and with it sea level, water temperature, acidity, algal blooms, and storm surges. Also on the rise are the metrics of accelerated human activity. How are we to fathom the political, aesthetic, and epistemological rise of the oceans from centuries-long invisibilization and forgetting? What ideas and memories do the oceans hold in their depth and reanimate, when the earth’s ecosystems suffer? Asking different questions and using multiple registers of sensing expand the possibilities to engage with the oceanic at this precarious moment and rethink its relations to the terrestrial. Oceans Rising is a companion reader to “Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation,” an independent oceanic research initiative commissioned by TBA21–Academy and operating out of Ocean Space in Venice. It offers forty-one thoughtful contributions by artists, scholars, scientists, and ocean activists in response to the rapidly changing oceans. Writing from places of conflict and concern, the contributions reveal the magnitude and urgency of ecological devastation, but more important, they provide alternative narratives that strengthen our knowledge communities and contribute to worldmaking practices from an oceanic perspective.

Public relations as described in this volume is, among other things, society’s solution to problems of maladjustment that plague an overcomplex world. All of us, individuals or organizations, depend for survival and growth on adjustment to our publics. Publicist Edward L. Bernays offers here the kind of advice individuals and a variety of organizations sought from him on a professional basis during more than four decades. With such knowledge, every intelligent person can carry on his or her activities more effectively. This book provides know-why as well know-how. Bernays explains the underlying philosophy of public relations and the PR methods and practices to be applied in specific cases. He presents broad approaches and solutions as they were successfully carried out in his long professional career. Public relations is not publicity, press agentry, promotion, advertising, or a bag of tricks, but a continuing process of social integration. It is a field of adjusting private and public interest. Everyone engaged in any public activity, and every student of human behavior and society, will find in this book a challenge and opportunity to further both the public interest and their own interest.

"This report documents violence and discrimination against LGBT people in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras--collectively known as the Northern Triangle of Central America--and, in some cases, along the migration routes they take to seek asylum.... Given the high levels of violence and discrimination that many LGBT people face in the Northern Triangle, the US government should be rigorously protecting LGBT asylum seekers' ability to safely cross the border into the United States and apply for asylum. Instead, the Trump administration has implemented a seemingly unending series of obstacles, blocking LGBT people's path to safety at every turn."--Pages 2-3.

Historian and author Daniel Snowman (b. 1938) writes of a Jewish child's memories of the War, gives colourful inside accounts of life in Cambridge, JFK's America (including Civil Rights) and the new University of Sussex, of the BBC in its heyday, choral concerts under the world's top conductors and extended visits to the Arctic and Antarctic. Daniel watches Churchill making one of his final speeches, interviews Harry Truman about Hiroshima, spends a week in Bayreuth with Wagner's daughter-in-law, meets Pope John-Paul II, Isaiah Berlin and Lord Snowdon, while getting to know Placido Domingo and the most famous among the 'Hitler Emigres'.

No other generation in history has received as much coverage as the Millennial generation. Books, Google searches, blogs, and news articles are everywhere about them. Yet, Generation Z is comprised of our youth and young adults today and has received very little attention comparatively. Those in Generation Z are among our youngest consumers, students, colleagues, constituents, voters, and neighbors. Being able to better understand who they are and how they see the world can be helpful in effectively working with, teaching, supervising, and leading them. Generation Z: A Century in the Making offers insight into nearly every aspect of the lives of those in Generation Z, including a focus on their career aspirations, religious beliefs and practices, entertainment and hobbies, social concerns, relationships with friends and family, health and wellness, money management, civic engagement, communication styles, political ideologies, technology use, and educational preferences. Drawing from an unprecedented number of studies with higher education research institutions, market research firms such as Pew and Census, other generational researchers and industry leaders, this is the authoritative defining work on Generation Z that market researchers, consumer behaviour specialists, and employers sorely need – and it is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the sociology of generations.

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her people, Leanne Simpson's Islands of Decolonial Love is a profound, important, and beautiful book of fiction.