Digital activism

Indonesia’s nickel downstreaming agenda has positioned mining expansion as part of a global green energy transition. In South-East Sulawesi, this expansion has intensified ecological degradation across inland nickel-mining zones and coastal stone-quarry areas. Women disproportionately experience these impacts through livelihood dispossession, increased unpaid reproductive labour, and heightened health risks. In this context, the central question […]

Academic discourse frequently speaks of a gender violence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), suggesting a distinctive gender violence that is tied to a geographic location. Within the framework of a digital ethnography, this research examines whether gender activists operating in digital spaces themselves conceptualise and mobilise around their struggle using a regional lens, combining observations, a […]

In the last decade, the world has become digitally hyper-connected, resulting in many activists taking online spaces as a crucial part of their activism. This article focuses on an e-campaign, ‘A Call to Action: Keep Saartjie Baartman Centre Open’, in which feminists located at the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children and the African […]