Negotiating Security and Advocacy: A Qualitative Interview Study with Women's Rights Advocates on Navigaating the Silent Security Dilemma
(2024) SIMZ11 20241Graduate School
- Abstract
- Prominent female figures engaging in the societal debate, such as journalists and activists, tend to be targeted for online hate speech and threats disproportionally. At the same time, people in Sweden depend on an online presence to function as individuals. Feminist security studies have yet to incorporate the gendered online dimensions of hate speech and threats. This paper examines how the feminist security studies theory of the silent security dilemma shapes the experiences of Swedish women’s rights advocates as they engage in activism online. It also explores how they navigate the challenges related to this. Through qualitative interviews, this paper finds that the silent security dilemma exists online. By adaptation of the silent... (More)
- Prominent female figures engaging in the societal debate, such as journalists and activists, tend to be targeted for online hate speech and threats disproportionally. At the same time, people in Sweden depend on an online presence to function as individuals. Feminist security studies have yet to incorporate the gendered online dimensions of hate speech and threats. This paper examines how the feminist security studies theory of the silent security dilemma shapes the experiences of Swedish women’s rights advocates as they engage in activism online. It also explores how they navigate the challenges related to this. Through qualitative interviews, this paper finds that the silent security dilemma exists online. By adaptation of the silent security dilemma to account for technology-facilitated gender-based violence, this paper demonstrates how the current debate within feminist security studies needs to account for the ‘new’ violence that occurs online and through information and communication technology. (Less)
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- author
- Blomgren Strinnvik, Saga LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SIMZ11 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Feminist Security Studies, ICTs, TFGBV, activism, Sweden
- language
- English
- id
- 9163785
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-26 12:37:17
- date last changed
- 2024-06-26 12:37:17
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