Activists' visibility acts of citizenship and media (mis)representation of BLM
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Activists' visibility acts of citizenship and media (mis)representation of BLM. / Milman, Noa; Doerr, Nicole.
In: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2023, p. 525-551 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Activists' visibility acts of citizenship and media (mis)representation of BLM
AU - Milman, Noa
AU - Doerr, Nicole
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 European Sociological Association.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This paper takes a novel approach to studying the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that emerged in the summer of 2020. Drawing on multimodal qualitative visual analysis methods, we study acts of deliberate altering and erasure of statues that represent heroes of colonialism in Greenland and Denmark. The paper conceptualises these actions as ‘visibility acts of citizenship’ in which racialised minorities claim their symbolic space in the public sphere and criticise racialized and gendered structures of oppression. We then provide a detailed visual and textual analysis of conservative Danish media representations of the protest. This allows us to show how the media (mis)represented protesters’ actions, and its response to accusations of racism and calls for change. Thus, we extend the literature on visual analysis of protest by including not only activists’ visual acts but also the visual responses of mainstream conservative media to the movement.
AB - This paper takes a novel approach to studying the wave of Black Lives Matter protests that emerged in the summer of 2020. Drawing on multimodal qualitative visual analysis methods, we study acts of deliberate altering and erasure of statues that represent heroes of colonialism in Greenland and Denmark. The paper conceptualises these actions as ‘visibility acts of citizenship’ in which racialised minorities claim their symbolic space in the public sphere and criticise racialized and gendered structures of oppression. We then provide a detailed visual and textual analysis of conservative Danish media representations of the protest. This allows us to show how the media (mis)represented protesters’ actions, and its response to accusations of racism and calls for change. Thus, we extend the literature on visual analysis of protest by including not only activists’ visual acts but also the visual responses of mainstream conservative media to the movement.
KW - Black Lives Matter
KW - colonialism
KW - media
KW - race
KW - statues
KW - Visual analysis
U2 - 10.1080/23254823.2023.2187427
DO - 10.1080/23254823.2023.2187427
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85150366471
VL - 10
SP - 525
EP - 551
JO - European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
JF - European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
SN - 2325-4823
IS - 4
ER -
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