Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky

Social Scientist @imagidem @sociologyofdemo @SocSciHelsinki
Democracy, (visual) participation, self-activism & stigma.
She/her.

[Hans Asenbaum @Hans_Asenbaum]

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 https://t.co/SH2lsZdTIm

[Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky @MeriTaina]

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

[Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky @MeriTaina]

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.

[Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky @MeriTaina]

@sociologyofdemo @EevaLuhtakallio @veikkoeranti For those of you who read Finnish, here's a brief description of what's to come 📸📱🔮
https://t.co/jZ2X3eKD35

[Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky @MeriTaina]

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.

[Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky @MeriTaina]

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

[The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop]

🎭 #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
https://t.co/vHVIHHalbi

[DelDemUCan @DelDemUCan]

You can now catch the replay of @MeriTaina's seminar on the political role of selfies in challenging the digital public sphere.

Click here 👇

https://t.co/8qkp0Olxeh

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@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?
👉https://t.co/5Z4HdZvMab
🧵10/10

[Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky @MeriTaina]

@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✨
👉https://t.co/8kHRarTBIu

🧵9/10

[Hans Asenbaum @Hans_Asenbaum]

@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

👉https://t.co/Yi80nAaEJQ

🧵8/10

[The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR @ECPR_TheLoop]

🎭 #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
https://t.co/5JjqBvQD2B

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@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.

👉https://t.co/VoQOoyOWhG

🧵7/10

[DelDemUCan @DelDemUCan]

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.

https://t.co/qkC7l7DqHr

[Hans Asenbaum @Hans_Asenbaum]

@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.

👉https://t.co/UohvXWrZl1

🧵6/10

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@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:
👉https://t.co/lvPhRNCVr7

🧵5/10

[Hans Asenbaum @Hans_Asenbaum]

@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🔓https://t.co/PaM4eTLZiq

🧵4/10

[Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky @MeriTaina]

@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. 👉https://t.co/MsxBykvqHQ

[Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky @MeriTaina]

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!
💫

[Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky @MeriTaina]

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!
https://t.co/w1dN1b6QPr