Science and Technology Production
Congress
Authorship
PALUMBO, MARIANA
;
Di Napoli, Pablo
Date
2020
Publishing House and Editing Place
Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos (LASA)
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This article intends to analyze the ?escraches? performed by female students in virtual environments against gender-based violence that they suffered from male school partners. The methodology used is based on a qualitative approach. We examined 70 denouncements published in 10 Instagram accounts that were created by young female students attending to high school. We found out a grammar of ?escraches?, a way of recounting violence situations in which female students make subjective reflections ...
This article intends to analyze the ?escraches? performed by female students in virtual environments against gender-based violence that they suffered from male school partners. The methodology used is based on a qualitative approach. We examined 70 denouncements published in 10 Instagram accounts that were created by young female students attending to high school. We found out a grammar of ?escraches?, a way of recounting violence situations in which female students make subjective reflections related to the manners and the reasons of what they have experienced and felt. We identified five axes that structure this grammar: 1) the kind of relation that female students had with the boys that committed violence against them and the context. 2) how the violence situations took place. 3) the sensations and emotions that young women experienced and the explanations or justifications they made. 4) the subjective reflections about the limits between consent and abuse. 5) we outline the arguments concerning why they decided to talk about the violent situation and to denounce the names of the young boys that have behaved violently towards them. We conclude that young female high school students have found in the practice of cyber denouncement a way to give visibility and denaturalize daily violent behaviors and interactions committed by male young boys. We argue that these kinds of denouncements express a social reconfiguration of sensitivity thresholds in the reciprocal treatment between individuals. But we also consider the limitations regarding punitivism and the effects of "escraches" on male students.
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Key Words
InstagramDenouncementGender-based Violence