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- Askanius, Tina, 1978-
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"Den svenska kvinnan" : [Performance lecture]
- 2022
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Konstnärligt arbete (film/video)abstract
- En iscensatt föreläsning i gränslandet mellan vetenskap och scenkonst om det våldsbejakande kvinnohatet i digitala miljöer.Sverige lyfts ofta fram som ett internationellt föregångsland när det gäller jämställdhet och kvinnors lika rättigheter. Men det är inte alla som håller med. Forskaren Tina Askanius tar med oss på en resa djupt ner i internets avkrokar där kvinnohatet frodas och Sverige framställs som ett land styrt av mansföraktspolitik och jämställhetsgalenskap. Här debatteras ”den svenska kvinnan” flitigt. Vem är egentligen ”den svenska kvinnan”? Varför betraktas hon som farlig? Varför var det ett misstag att ge henne rösträtt? Varför förtjänar hon att bli våldtagen? Varför ska hon dö?I den här föreställningen möts vetenskaplig forskning och scenkonstuttryck som ger nya perspektiv på denna högst aktuella samhällsfråga. Föreläsningen iscensätts av Absurdum Temporary Art som genom bland annat koreografi och musik ramar in olika delar av den digitala sfär som vi alla lever med dagligen, där den svenska kvinnan betraktas både som någon som måste skyddas, och någon som måste utplånas.
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- Askanius, Tina, 1978-
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DIY Dying : Video activism as archive, commemoration and evidence
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Ingår i: International Journal of E-politics. - : IGI Global. - 1947-9131 .- 1947-914X. ; 1:3, s. 12-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines video activism in a context where ubiquitous camera technologies and online video sharing platforms are radically changing the media landscape in which demonstrations and political activism operates. The author discusses a number of YouTube videos documenting and narrating the recurring, anti-capitalist demonstrations in Europe in the past decade. With the death of Ian Tomlinson in London during the 2009 G20 protests as an empirical starting point, the author raises questions of how video documentation of this event links up with previous protest events by juxtaposing representations of ‘the moment of death’ (Zelizer, 2004, 2010) of protesters in the past. This article suggests that these videos work as (1) an archive of action and activist memory, (2) a site of commemoration in a online shrine for grieving, and (3) a space to provide and negotiate visual evidence of police violence and state repression. The author offers a re-articulation of the longstanding debate on visual evidence, action, and testimony in video activism. The results are suggestive of how vernacular commemorative genres of mourning and paying tribute to victims of police violence are fused with the online practices of bearing witness and producing visual evidence in new creative modes of using video for change.
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- Askanius, Tina, 1978-, et al.
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Far-right extremist narratives in Canadian and Swedish Covid-19 protests : A comparative case study of the Freedom Movement and Freedom Convoy
- 2024
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Ingår i: Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression. - : Routledge. - 1943-4472 .- 1943-4480.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This comparative case study of the Freedom Movement in Sweden and the Freedom Convoy in Canada provides insights into the processes of transnationalization involved in the (re)production of far-right narratives around the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on the online media of these protest movements we explore the extent to which the political and cultural context shaped far-right meta narratives and more universal concerns around the pandemic. The study finds significant similarities in how protest narratives in the two countries were constructed and appropriated to intersect with far-right extremism and anti-establishment ideas but also that these narratives were repurposed to make sense in two national contexts characterized by stark differences in the level of restrictions imposed and curtailment of civic rights. Unpacking the local/global intricacies of these narratives helps us understand the ubiquity of contemporary anti-government and anti-establishment discourse propelled by the far-right but also its malleability and flexibility in terms of how it is made to fit different political contexts and scenarios across liberal democracies.
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- Askanius, Tina, 1978-
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“I just want to be the friendly face of national socialism" : The turn to civil discourse in the online media of the Nordic Resistance Movement
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordicom Review. - : Nordicom. - 1403-1108 .- 2001-5119. ; 42:S1, s. 17-35
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is based on a case study of the media narratives of the neo-Nazi organisation the Nordic Resistance Movement(NRM) which situates this particular actor within the broader landscape of violent extremism in Sweden today.[i] The empirical data consists of a strategic sample of the organisation’s online content (including web-TV, feature articles, and podcasts) all produced by and for members of the NRM and all presented as ‘culture’ and categorised under labels such as ’entertainment’, ‘pleasure’, ‘humour’ and ‘satire’[ii]. Drawing on a qualitative content analysis informed by the conceptual horizon of narrative inquiry, the paper examines various cultural expressions of neo-Nazi ideology in the organisation’s extensive repertoire of online media. Theoretically, it turns to the work of Miller-Idriss (2018) and Teitelbaum (2018) to bring centre stage the role of popular culture and entertainment in the construction of a meaningful narrative of community and belonging built around neo-Nazism in Sweden today. The paper demonstrates how the organisation with their efforts to boost the culture and entertainment-end of their media repertoire seek to add to the ordinariness and normalcy of neo-Nazi discourse and the banalisation and defusing of its underlying ideologies. Further, the analysis of the convergence between different genres, styles and content into new borderline discourses illustrate how contemporary extreme right movements are complicating the traditional binaries with which scholars have operated such as fascist versus liberal, totalitarian versus democratic and mainstream versus extremist.
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- Askanius, Tina, 1978-, et al.
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Murder fantasies in memes : fascist aesthetics of death threats and the banalization of white supremacist violence
- 2021
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Ingår i: Information, Communication and Society. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1369-118X .- 1468-4462. ; 24:16, s. 2522-2539
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper traces the recent turn to humour, irony and ambiguity embodied in the adaptation of memes into the repertoire of online propaganda of the militant neo-Nazi group the Nordic Resistance Movement; in a process, we dub the ‘memefication’ of white supremacism. Drawing on a combination of quantitative visual content analysis (VCA) and in-depth visual analysis focused on iconography and symbolism, we explore all memes (N = 634) created and circulated by the group around the 2018 general elections in the country. The analysis proceeds in two steps: First, we present the results of the VCA in which we identified five thematic categories of memes crafting white supremacy, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitic ideas onto esoteric and popular culture iconography then to map these across a matrix of content and form. We then proceed to the analysis of the cluster of memes coded as violent to explore the iconography and symbolism used to promote violence and death threats and render them banal. We draw on a range of recent scholarship on the entanglement of memes in the rise of the far- right and engage critical perspectives on the necropower of fascism to explore the interplay between ambiguous, playful and jokey imagery on the one hand and the murder fantasies and serious threat of white supremacist violence at the heart of neo- Nazi ideology, on the other.
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- Askanius, Tina, 1978-
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On Frogs, Monkeys, and Execution Memes : Exploring the Humor-Hate Nexus at the Intersection of Neo-Nazi and Alt-Right Movements in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Television and New Media. - : Sage Publications. - 1527-4764 .- 1552-8316. ; 22:2, s. 147-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is based on a case study of the online media practices of the militant neo-Nazi organization the Nordic Resistance Movement, currently the biggest and most active extreme-right actor in Scandinavia. I trace a recent turn to humor, irony, and ambiguity in their online communication and the increasing adaptation of stylistic strategies and visual aesthetics of the Alt-Right inspired by online communities such as 4chan, 8chan, Reddit, and Imgur. Drawing on a visual content analysis of memes (N = 634) created and circulated by the organization, the analysis explores the place of humor, irony, and ambiguity across these cultural expressions of neo-Nazism and how ideas, symbols, and layers of meaning travel back and forth between neo-Nazi and Alt-right groups within Sweden today.
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