scholarly journals Maghbouleh, Neda, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race.

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-470
Author(s):  
Mitra Mokhtari
Keyword(s):  
Iranian Americans ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
Politics Of Race

nr="371"Maghbouleh, Neda (2017): The Limits of Whiteness. Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 248 S.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 371-374
Author(s):  
Anke Wischmann
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Iranian Americans ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
Politics Of Race

In den USA werden Menschen weiterhin viel expliziter anhand von ,,Rassenmerkmalen“ klassifiziert. So wird bis heute in Volkszählungen die ,,Rassezugehörigkeit“ abgefragt, die sich die Befragten somit selbst zuschreiben. In vielen Fällen scheint diese Zuordnung auf den ersten Blick eindeutig vorzunehmen zu sein aufgrund phänotypischer Merkmale. In dem Buch von Neda Maghbouleh wird einmal mehr deutlich, wie uneindeutig und gleichzeitig machtvoll diese Kategorisierungen auch heute noch sind. Sie widmet sich in ihrer Studie Menschen, deren Eltern aus dem Iran in die USA eingewandert sind, zumeist in der Folge der islamischen Revolution. Hierzu wurden qualitative Interviews geführt, ethnografische Beobachtungen vorgenommen und historische Dokumente analysiert.

scholarly journals The banality of WhatsApp: On the everyday politics of backstage activism in Mexico and Spain

First Monday ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emiliano Treré
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

Drawing on interviews with social movements and organizations in Mexico and Spain, this paper sheds light on the dynamics of ‘backstage activism’ with a focus on WhatsApp. It illustrates how activists have integrated this app into their media ecologies to reinforce collective identity, cement internal solidarity and lower the pressure of protest. It shows that within WhatsApp groups, campaigners have countered the paranoia experienced in the frontstage of social media exchanging ironical material and intimate messages. It demonstrates that WhatsApp has been used as a robust organizational device and it is now firmly integrated into the mechanisms of organizations and movements. Its communicative affordances (speed, reliability, mobility, multimediality) in conjunction with the omnipresent smartphone are often emphasized. Nuancing characterizations that tend to either disregard its role or stress its negative side, this qualitative exploration foregrounds the banality of WhatsApp. This article unpacks the multiple roles of this app within the submerged practices of movements and organizations.

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