Intersectional Im/Mobilisation and Postcolonial States

Liberating Mali through Digital Media?
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-6742-3
Verlag: Pallas Publications

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Protest and Social Movements

This book rethinks political mobilisation in postcolonial states through a lens of decolonial feminism and mobilities, showing how intersectional power unfolds across diverse levels of digital media, from infrastructures, digital platforms, and user interactions to subjectifications and emotions.

Syntia Hasenöhrl explains in this book how gender and postcoloniality interrelate with sexuality, class, ethnicity, and age in shaping digital political engagement. She argues that while digital media offer opportunities for decolonising state–society relations, these opportunities remain unrealised because an intersectional gender-postcoloniality nexus impairs the liberatory potentials of online political mobilisation. Her analysis demonstrates how intersectional gender dynamics shape liberatory political mobilisation in postcolonial states within the increasingly important arena of digital media.

Intersectional Im/Mobilisation and Postcolonial States is written for researchers, students, and interested readers seeking to understand the everyday dimensions of postcolonial state–society relations, extended and intersectional analyses of digital colonialism, and the liberatory, especially decolonial-feminist potentials of digital media.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hasenöhrl, Syntia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: A Stopping Point at Crossing Pathways

Acknowledgements

Glossary

Introduction: Decolonising Malian State–Society Relations through Online Mobilisation

PART I: Governing the Physical Im/Mobilisation of Narratives

1 Being Dis/Connected: How Intersectional Techno-Politics Disrupt State–Citizen Relations

2 To Be Seen or Not to Be Seen: How Digital Platforms Exploit Intersectional User Dependencies and State Limitations

3 Speaking Up and Being Heard: How Citizens, Media, and the State Negotiate Intersectional Power in a Digital Public

PART II: Governing the Cultural Im/Mobilisation of Narratives

4 Telling Our Stories: How Intersectional Subjectifications Rely on Others of the Postcolonial Nation

5 Gathering Courage: How Intersectional Social Divisions Undermine Dreams of Decolonial State–Citizen Relations

Conclusion: Intersectional Liberation as a Precondition for Decolonising State–Citizen Relations through Digital Media

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Syntia Hasenöhrl teaches at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. Her research centres on Black feminisms, digital media, political mobilisation, and climate politics in postcolonial contexts. She recently published “The Coloniality of Gender” entry in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics (2026), “Affective Subjectifications and Social Media” (2023), and “Affective Politics of Care Perpetuating Intersectional Inequalities during the Coronavirus Pandemic” (2021).