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dc.contributor.authorKosonen, Heidi
dc.contributor.authorLöf, Riku
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-21T09:01:05Z
dc.date.available2024-10-21T09:01:05Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.citationKosonen, H., & Löf, R. (2024). Pansy asses and terrorists : Sensibilities of anti-environmentalist toxic speech against Extinction Rebellion Finland. <i>European Journal of Cultural Studies</i>, <i>OnlineFirst</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241278931" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241278931</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_243359326
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/97549
dc.description.abstractHate speech against environmental activists has been on the rise globally, alongside a forceful criminalization of the climate movement in Western Europe. This article analyses anti-environmentalist speech and actions against Extinction Rebellion (XR) Finland, an environmental movement that employs non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade individuals and institutions to address the ongoing ecological emergency. The materials consist of online commenting evoked by the news coverage of XR Finland’s protests in October 2022 and May 2023, and ethnographic data from the protest sites. The data ranges from scorn and stigmatizing insults to fantasies of violence and physical assaults at the demonstration sites. The article discusses this data through the concept of toxic speech and explores the different sensibilities of such speech: (1) the ironic and dismissive sensibility, (2) the emotionally invested sensibility and (3) the punitive, resentful sensibility. This article highlights how these sensibilities and related affective practices are embedded in and compounded by gendered, class-based, ageist and ableist systems of power and argues that anti-environmentalist toxic speech contributes to environmental activism’s delegitimization and stigmatization. It suggests that toxic speech normalizes violence towards activists and can ultimately violate activists’ civil and political rights.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.subject.otherhate speech
dc.subject.othertoxic speech
dc.subject.otheraffect
dc.subject.otherenvironmental activism
dc.subject.otheranti-environmentalism
dc.subject.otherviolence
dc.subject.othergender
dc.subject.otherstigmatization
dc.subject.otherdelegitimization
dc.titlePansy asses and terrorists : Sensibilities of anti-environmentalist toxic speech against Extinction Rebellion Finland
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-202410216411
dc.contributor.laitosMusiikin, taiteen ja kulttuurin tutkimuksen laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Music, Art and Culture Studiesen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.relation.issn1367-5494
dc.relation.volumeOnlineFirst
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2024
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dc.relation.grantnumber340650
dc.subject.ysoväkivalta
dc.subject.ysoympäristöaktivismi
dc.subject.ysovihapuhe
dc.subject.ysokansalaistottelemattomuus
dc.subject.ysosukupuolittuminen
dc.subject.ysotunteet
dc.subject.ysojulkinen keskustelu
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dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.relation.doi10.1177/13675494241278931
dc.relation.funderResearch Council of Finlanden
dc.relation.funderSuomen Akatemiafi
jyx.fundingprogramAcademy Project, AoFen
jyx.fundingprogramAkatemiahanke, SAfi
jyx.fundinginformationThe research and publication of this article received funding from University of Jyväskylä (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences), Kone Foundation [grant number: 202009043], Research Council of Finland [grant number 340650], FinnishCultural Foundation and Emil Aaltonen Foundation.
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