“We Might Give People a Sense of the Magnitude of the Problem”: On the Truth Discourse about Violence against Women in the First Phase of Polish #MeToo (#JaTeż) Action (October 2017) on Facebook

• Authors: Bagiński Paweł
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper considers how a truth discourse about violence against women was produced with the #JaTeż posts published on Facebook between 16 and 20 October 2017, during the first phase of Polish #MeToo. It applies a post-Foucauldian perspective of dispositive analysis to outline how the circulation of #MeToo (#JaTeż) in social media affected the patriarchal dispositive of gender, which had to give way to women speaking truth. The replication of posts and accumulation of affects in the #MeToo (#JaTeż) network allowed the normalisation of violence against women in public discourse to be countered. Michel Foucault’s work on parrhesiastic and confessional modes of truth-telling is employed to analyse courage and solidarity in #MeToo (#JaTeż), as well as to connect individual engagement in the action with the collective claim for a normative shift in favour of women’s rights.

Keywords

EN

dispositive analysis; Facebook; #MeToo (#JaTeż); truth-production; violence against women

• Publisher: Instytut Socjologii UW
• Journal: Stan Rzeczy
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 2(17) A New Culture of Truth
• Pages: 161-181

Contributors

author

Bagiński Paweł

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