Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky

Taking our discussions about ✨Democratic Self-transformations✨ forward at #PSA24 with the wonderful @amandamachin @profmoyalloyd and @MeriTaina 📖🔓Check out the open access special issue @DemTheory berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

@Hans_Asenbaum @sociologyofdemo @EevaLuhtakallio @veikkoeranti Thanks so much Hans! Looking forward to all kinds of exciting collaboration this funding makes possible ❤

@MeriTaina @sociologyofdemo @EevaLuhtakallio @veikkoeranti Such wonderful news, Taina!! HUGE Congratulations!🤩

Posting this before I wake up: our project was funded by @KoneenSaatio ✨ With the greatest Heini Salminen and Emmi Holm, we will study how the social media norms of authenticity and 'bareness' impact the possibilities for political action among marginalised people.

@sociologyofdemo @EevaLuhtakallio @veikkoeranti For those of you who read Finnish, here's a brief description of what's to come 📸📱🔮 koneensaatio.fi/apurahat-ja-re…

We've had the help and support of so many people at the @sociologyofdemo; @EevaLuhtakallio and @veikkoeranti in particular. Thank you! Also: I know SO many brilliant projects didn't get funding. It sucks, and it makes this day bitter sweet for us all.

@NigriVeloso @ECPR_TheLoop @ECPR @Hans_Asenbaum Ohh, many thanks, Lucas!

Outstanding research and reflection by @MeriTaina on resistance and reconfiguration of social stigmas by disruptive selfies 📷✨. Incredible publishing work @ECPR_TheLoop @ECPR @Hans_Asenbaum #DemocraticTransformations 👏👏

🎭 #DemocraticTransformations No.5 Marginalised activists espouse ‘presentist identities’ to fight others' dismissiveness. Such identities do not assume a past or a future, but make us perceivable and free, writes @MeriTaina of @imagidem & @sociologyofdemo bit.ly/40U4Naf

You can now catch the replay of @MeriTaina's seminar on the political role of selfies in challenging the digital public sphere. Click here 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=cu2E9-…

@Hans_Asenbaum @MendoncaRF @profmoyalloyd @JeanPaulRGagnon @BeausoleilEmily @DemTheory @berghahnbooks @uniessexgovt @amandamachin @RahelSuess @seejenspeak As our dessert @AnastasiaKavada @OliverEscobar & Andrea Cornwall discuss @Hans_Asenbaum's book ‘The Politics of Becoming’. What is 'becoming' for collective identity? Are there perils to anonymity? Can identity be our connections to each other? 👉berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/… 🧵10/10

@Hans_Asenbaum @MendoncaRF @profmoyalloyd @JeanPaulRGagnon @BeausoleilEmily @DemTheory @berghahnbooks @uniessexgovt @amandamachin @RahelSuess @seejenspeak “if I were writing The Politics of Presence today, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t put gender in one chapter, race in another, multiculturalism in yet another”, says Anne Phillips in an interview with @Hans_Asenbaum. Politics of Presence revisited✨ 👉berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/… 🧵9/10

Check out the new OA special issue of @DemTheory @berghahnbooks edited by @MeriTaina & me. ✨DEMOCRATIC SELF-TRANSFORMATIONS✨ Here's a thread on the stellar contributions. We'll add one article per day. 👉berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/… @DelDemUCan @sociologyofdemo 🧵1/10

@MeriTaina @MendoncaRF @profmoyalloyd @JeanPaulRGagnon @BeausoleilEmily @DemTheory @berghahnbooks @uniessexgovt @amandamachin @RahelSuess Incel identities have undergone a remarkable transformation from diversity to exclusion. To prevent identities from becoming undemocratic, it requires attention to moderation techniques and social norms, argues @seejenspeak 👉berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/… 🧵8/10

🎭 #DemocraticTransformations No.4 Democracy needs to recognise & empower our multiple identities. @TheBrandonMack draws on his activist experience with #BlackLivesMatter to argue for intersectionality & diverse histories as the backbone of democracy #BLM bit.ly/49CH5Di

@Hans_Asenbaum @MendoncaRF @profmoyalloyd @JeanPaulRGagnon @BeausoleilEmily @DemTheory @berghahnbooks @uniessexgovt @amandamachin Who rules in the digital age, asks @RahelSuess in her fabulous article. Drawing inspiration from radical democratic scholarship, she reimagines a digital sovereign that enables ongoing identity construction and transformation. 👉berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/… 🧵7/10

@MeriTaina @MendoncaRF @profmoyalloyd @JeanPaulRGagnon @BeausoleilEmily @DemTheory @berghahnbooks @uniessexgovt @amandamachin Iris Marion Young is wrongly identified with the politics of presence. Michaele Ferguson reads her work as part of the politics of becoming by focusing on structure rather than identity. 👉berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/… 🧵6/10

Special Issue alert 📢 Our very own @Hans_Asenbaum joined forces with @MeriTaina to curate this beautiful issue of @DemTheory on Democratic Self-Transformations. Available OPEN ACESS. berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

@Hans_Asenbaum @MendoncaRF @profmoyalloyd @JeanPaulRGagnon @BeausoleilEmily @DemTheory @berghahnbooks @uniessexgovt Looking at hunger strikes as 'performances of death', @amandamachin shows how they are a powerful political tool, but also an 'act of political becoming', giving life to new political subjects. Find the brilliant piece here: 👉berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/… 🧵5/10

@MeriTaina @MendoncaRF The Ranciérian concept of disidentification is purely discursive. To overcome this limitation, @profmoyalloyd puts forward a novel account of embodied disidentification, exemplified by the feminist Miss America protest of 1968. Open Access🔓berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/… 🧵4/10

@Hans_Asenbaum To grasp how political subjects change, we also need to understand identity deconstruction, argue @MendoncaRF & Ângela Cristina Salgueiro Marques. Read how it happened in the Brazilian June Journeys protests and why it is crucial for democracy. 👉berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

In the intro, @MeriTaina & I argue that the politics of presence needs to be combined with the freedom to self-define. ❓How can the politics of presence be developed through performativity? ❓How can democracy do justice to intersectionality? 👉berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/… 🧵2/10

Our rock star line-up: @MendoncaRF & Ângela Christina Salgueiro Marques, @profmoyalloyd @amandamachin Michaele L. Ferguson, @RahelSuess and Jennifer Forestal. + Interview with Anne Phillips, and @AnastasiaKavada @OliverEscobar & Andrea Cornwall discussing Hans's new book! 💫

Our beautiful special issue "Democratic Self-transformations: Identity, Performance, and the Politics of Becoming", edited with the amazing @Hans_Asenbaum is out in Democratic Theory! Thanks @JeanPaulRGagnon @BeausoleilEmily and our stellar contributors! berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…