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Svensson, J. & Strand, C. (2024). Development cooperation and the stratification of lesbian, gay, bi- and transsexual activism: international donors, elite activists and community members during Uganda Pride 2022. European Journal of Politics and Gender
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Development cooperation and the stratification of lesbian, gay, bi- and transsexual activism: international donors, elite activists and community members during Uganda Pride 2022
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: European Journal of Politics and Gender, ISSN 2515-1088, E-ISSN 2515-1096Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Uganda's infamous state -sanctioned homo-hostility has resulted in intense international attention, development cooperation and Western funding to local lesbian, gay, bi- and transsexual (LGBT+) organisations. However, Western funders and allies in this context are becoming increasingly questioned. Researchers have highlighted the complexities, opportunities and constraints of an increasingly transnational LGBT+ movement, but how is this manifested on the ground in the Global South? Through an inductive and ethnographically inspired study, we set out to explore the Ugandan LGBT+ community and its intra-community relationships and relations with Western funders and allies in the unique setting of Uganda Pride 2022, to which we had rare first-hand access. The results reveal that security concerns, both from outside and within the community, shaped Uganda Pride 2022. The most salient finding is that competition for international funding distorts activists' relations, as it stratifies the LGBT+ community based on who has access to Western donors and international funders.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Bristol University Press, 2024
Nyckelord
activism, development cooperation, LGBT+, Pride, stratification, Uganda
Nationell ämneskategori
Mänsklig interaktion med IKT
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-70023 (URN)10.1332/25151088Y2024D000000033 (DOI)001230230100001 ()
Tillgänglig från: 2024-07-31 Skapad: 2024-07-31 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-07-31Bibliografiskt granskad
Klinger, U. & Svensson, J. (2024). Network media logic revisited: How social media have changed the logics of the campaign environment. In: Darren Lilleker; Daniel Jackson; Bente Kalsnes; Claudia Mellado; Filippo Trevisan; Anastasia Veneti (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning: (pp. 30-44). Routledge
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Network media logic revisited: How social media have changed the logics of the campaign environment
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning / [ed] Darren Lilleker; Daniel Jackson; Bente Kalsnes; Claudia Mellado; Filippo Trevisan; Anastasia Veneti, Routledge, 2024, s. 30-44Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

Ten years ago, we proposed the concept of network media logic. In this chapter, we explore how political actors have adapted to it. We attend to the importance of intermediaries, activism in the global south, and how technology firms and data have become active agents. We argue that the concept needs to better account for the lack of professional editing, data-driven production and distribution, the emergence of affective publics, the outsized role of superspreaders, and the rise of participatory propaganda. In conclusion, we suggest that network media logic can help us understand the challenges with generative AI as campaigning depends not only on the technology but also on how parties decide to play this game.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Routledge, 2024
Serie
Routledge International Handbooks, ISSN 2767-4886
Nationell ämneskategori
Medie-, kommunikations-, och informationsvetenskaper
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-72626 (URN)10.4324/9781003333326-4 (DOI)2-s2.0-85210676192 (Scopus ID)9781032356716 (ISBN)9781003333326 (ISBN)
Tillgänglig från: 2024-12-10 Skapad: 2024-12-10 Senast uppdaterad: 2025-02-07Bibliografiskt granskad
Svensson, J. & Strand, C. (2024). The Promise of Double Living: Understanding Young People with Same-Sex Desires in Contemporary Kampala. Journal of Homosexuality, 71(8), 2010-2029
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>The Promise of Double Living: Understanding Young People with Same-Sex Desires in Contemporary Kampala
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Journal of Homosexuality, ISSN 0091-8369, E-ISSN 1540-3602, Vol. 71, nr 8, s. 2010-2029Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

Ugandan urban same-sex desiring individuals frequently encounter and navigate competing understandings of sexuality and sexual identity. Western essentialist understanding of sexual identity introduced by international development partners and transnational LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi- and Transsexual) activism, as well as media, offer an alternative to Ugandan non-essentialist and fluid subject positions. This article seeks to understand how young individuals with same-sex -desires in Kampala navigate tensions between Western and local understandings concerning sexuality. We have interviewed 24 young individuals with same-sex desires (unaffiliated and individuals working in LGBT+ organizations) and asked how they approach their sexuality and experiences living with same-sex desires in contemporary Kampala. The results reveal how interview participants engaged in a complex navigation between local community expectations, their own same-sex desires, and embeddedness in a global LGBT+ culture. Although the participants engaged in what Westerners would label as a "double life," the article problematizes the prescriptive norms of authenticity and "coming out." The conclusion is that the fluid vs essentialist dichotomy is too simplistic to be helpful when trying to understand the lives and aspirations of young people with same-sex desires.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Routledge, 2024
Nyckelord
Africa, development cooperation, double life, LGBT plus, sexuality, Uganda
Nationell ämneskategori
Medievetenskap Socialantropologi
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-60574 (URN)10.1080/00918369.2023.2218958 (DOI)000999571400001 ()37262126 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85161460021 (Scopus ID)
Forskningsfinansiär
Vetenskapsrådet, 2020-04003
Tillgänglig från: 2023-06-13 Skapad: 2023-06-13 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-07-30Bibliografiskt granskad
Strand, C., Eriksson, Å. & Svensson, J. (2024). Understanding the current backlash against LGBTIQ+ rights through the lens of heteroactivism: A case study of the International Organization for the Family’s transnational norm diffusion on Twitter. Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 6(1), 221-243
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Understanding the current backlash against LGBTIQ+ rights through the lens of heteroactivism: A case study of the International Organization for the Family’s transnational norm diffusion on Twitter
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Media Studies, E-ISSN 2003-184X, Vol. 6, nr 1, s. 221-243Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

A new generation of transnational anti-gender actors are framing themselves as human rights champions and protectors of the rights of the “natural family”. To better understand these actors’ norm diffusion, including their re-styling of anti-gender narratives in contemporary iterations of heteroactivism and its potential threat to LGBTIQ+ rights, in this article we analyse the social media tactics of a key transnational anti-gender actor: the International Organization for the Family (IOF). The analysis is focused on the organisation’s Twitter (now X) account and we draw on theories of network media logic, connective action, and connective emotions. Two periods of activism – the first a low-intensity period in 2021 and the second a high-intensity period in 2022 – were purposefully selected for the analysis. In this article, we identify differences between the two periods, noting that the period covering the flagship event, the World Congress of Families (WCF) in 2022, was markedly less LGBTIQ-hostile and adversarial than the first period. IOF thus appears to be inspired by heteroactivist frames during the WCF and abides by logic that should trigger user interaction and content spreading. The lack of interactions and engagement with IOF Twitter content in either period indicates the need for more research on which logics apply to anti-gender audiences. We discuss the findings and what they may imply in a context like Sweden, a country whose self-image as a global champion for women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights may make it ill-equipped to counter the onslaught of transnational actors’ norm entrepreneurial activities.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Walter de Gruyter, 2024
Nyckelord
anti-gender, digital media, heteroactivism, LGBTIQ+, norm diffusion
Nationell ämneskategori
Annan samhällsvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-71870 (URN)10.2478/njms-2024-0011 (DOI)2-s2.0-85203413294 (Scopus ID)
Tillgänglig från: 2024-10-31 Skapad: 2024-10-31 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-10-31Bibliografiskt granskad
Svensson, J., Edenborg, E. & Strand, C. (2024). We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of LGBT plus rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda. Sexualities
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of LGBT plus rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Sexualities, ISSN 1363-4607, E-ISSN 1461-7382Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

This article unpacks different meanings of visibility and adds to a more complex and nuanced understanding of visibility and its role in LGBT + activism in Uganda, a widely discussed case of political homophobia. Public visibility has a central, although contested, role here. The study aims to explore how visibility is understood and navigated by local LGBT + activists, unaffiliated people with same-sex desires, as well as international development partners. Interviews conducted in Kampala from December 2021-January 2022 reveal different and complex narratives surrounding visibility. Local unaffiliated individuals and activists agreed on the importance of making the LGBT + rights struggle more visible. This, however, did not translate into a wish to "come out" themselves. International development actors expressed a need for caution regarding their own visibility, mindful that explicit and visual support may generate accusations of neo-imperialism.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Sage Publications, 2024
Nyckelord
Development cooperation, LGBT plus, post-coloniality, Uganda, visibility
Nationell ämneskategori
Genusstudier
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-66109 (URN)10.1177/13634607241232556 (DOI)001157049800001 ()2-s2.0-85184405019 (Scopus ID)
Tillgänglig från: 2024-02-26 Skapad: 2024-02-26 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-04-12Bibliografiskt granskad
Svensson, J., Larsson, A. O. & Strand, C. (2024). Who relates to whom and according to which rationale?: Visibility and advocacy in the Ugandan LGBT plus Twittersphere. New Media and Society
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Who relates to whom and according to which rationale?: Visibility and advocacy in the Ugandan LGBT plus Twittersphere
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: New Media and Society, ISSN 1461-4448, E-ISSN 1461-7315Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

An increase in international funding for LGBT+ rights advocacy in Uganda has resulted in not only a mushrooming of organizations but also intra-community competition for visibility, attention, and limited resources. Against this backdrop, we set out to study how organizations relate to each other in the Ugandan LGBT+ Twittersphere. Following an analytical framework around rationalities of mediated participation, we study with whom Ugandan LGBT+ organizations relate through mapping retweets and @mentions emanating from selected Twitter accounts. The resulting network maps reveal a dividing line between more well-funded and internationally connected organizations and lesser established organizations. By supplementing the network analysis with qualitative readings of key accounts and semi-structured interviews, we conclude that access to international funds and negotiating visibility explains the network structures. The article thus reveals interesting Twitter practices, showing LGBT+ organizations use the platform as a means for negotiating and claiming space inside the Ugandan LGBT+ community.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Sage Publications, 2024
Nyckelord
Advocacy, LGBT plus, rationality, social media, Twitter, Uganda
Nationell ämneskategori
Medievetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-66900 (URN)10.1177/14614448241236853 (DOI)001187823700001 ()2-s2.0-85188273502 (Scopus ID)
Tillgänglig från: 2024-04-25 Skapad: 2024-04-25 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-04-25Bibliografiskt granskad
Svensson, J. (2023). Artificial Intelligence is an Oxymoron: The Importance of an Organic Body when Facing Unknown Situations as they Unfold in the Present Moment. In: : . Paper presented at Nordmedia conference, August 16-18 2023, Bergen.
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Artificial Intelligence is an Oxymoron: The Importance of an Organic Body when Facing Unknown Situations as they Unfold in the Present Moment
2023 (Engelska)Konferensbidrag, Muntlig presentation med publicerat abstract (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Abstract [en]

Departing from popular imaginations around artificial intelligence (AI), this presentation engages in the I in the AI acronym but from perspectives outside of mathematics, computer science and machine learning. When intelligence is attended to here, it most often refers to narrow calculating tasks. This connotation to calculation provides AI an image of scientificity and objectivity, particularly attractive in societies with a pervasive desire for numbers. However, as is increasingly apparent today, when employed in more general areas of our messy socio-cultural realities, AI- powered automated systems often fail or have unintended consequences. This article will contribute to this critique of AI by attending to Nicholas of Cusa and his treatment of intelligence. According to him, intelligence is equally dependent on an ability to handle the unknown as it unfolds in the present moment. This suggests that intelligence is organic which ties Cusa to more contemporary discussions in tech philosophy, neurology, evolutionary biology, and cognitive sciences in which it is argued that intelligence is dependent on having—and acting through—an organic body. Understanding intelligence as organic thus suggests an oxymoronic relationship to artificial

Nationell ämneskategori
Kommunikationsvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-63648 (URN)
Konferens
Nordmedia conference, August 16-18 2023, Bergen
Anmärkning

Conference programme: https://nordmedianetwork.org/nordmedia-conference-2023/programme/

Tillgänglig från: 2023-11-13 Skapad: 2023-11-13 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-11-15Bibliografiskt granskad
Svensson, J. (2023). Artificial intelligence is an oxymoron: The importance of an organic body when facing unknown situations as they unfold in the present moment. AI & Society: The Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence, 38(1), 363-372
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Artificial intelligence is an oxymoron: The importance of an organic body when facing unknown situations as they unfold in the present moment
2023 (Engelska)Ingår i: AI & Society: The Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence, ISSN 0951-5666, E-ISSN 1435-5655, Vol. 38, nr 1, s. 363-372Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

Departing from popular imaginations around artificial intelligence (AI), this article engages in the I in the AI acronym but from perspectives outside of mathematics, computer science and machine learning. When intelligence is attended to here, it most often refers to narrow calculating tasks. This connotation to calculation provides AI an image of scientificity and objectivity, particularly attractive in societies with a pervasive desire for numbers. However, as is increasingly apparent today, when employed in more general areas of our messy socio-cultural realities, AI- powered automated systems often fail or have unintended consequences. This article will contribute to this critique of AI by attending to Nicholas of Cusa and his treatment of intelligence. According to him, intelligence is equally dependent on an ability to handle the unknown as it unfolds in the present moment. This suggests that intelligence is organic which ties Cusa to more contemporary discussions in tech philosophy, neurology, evolutionary biology, and cognitive sciences in which it is argued that intelligence is dependent on having—and acting through—an organic body. Understanding intelligence as organic thus suggests an oxymoronic relationship to artificial.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Springer, 2023
Nyckelord
Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Philosophy, Body, Cusa, Nonconsciousness, Organic, Presence
Nationell ämneskategori
Mänsklig interaktion med IKT
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-46646 (URN)10.1007/s00146-021-01311-z (DOI)000714828000001 ()34754144 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85118632481 (Scopus ID)
Forskningsfinansiär
Malmö universitetVetenskapsrådet, 2017-01195
Tillgänglig från: 2021-11-05 Skapad: 2021-11-05 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-02-05Bibliografiskt granskad
Strand, C. & Svensson, J. (2023). Challenging the legacy of the past and present intimate colonialization - a study of Ugandan LGBT plus activism in times of shrinking communicative space. Information, Communication and Society, 26(12), 2488-2505
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Challenging the legacy of the past and present intimate colonialization - a study of Ugandan LGBT plus activism in times of shrinking communicative space
2023 (Engelska)Ingår i: Information, Communication and Society, ISSN 1369-118X, E-ISSN 1468-4462, Vol. 26, nr 12, s. 2488-2505Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

Through a mixed-methods approach consisting of a directed content analysis of five established LGBT+ organizations' use of Twitter and Facebook during a month in 2022, and semi-structured qualitative interviews with social media content producers, the study attempts to understand the role of self-controlled social media spaces in challenging the Uganda society's logics of oppression. The results indicate that self-controlled spaces are not used for disrupting the basis for repression - the local logic of oppression - or its cocoon of collective post-colonial amnesia. Nor were spaces used for re-constructive engaging with transnational and development partners' unwitting impact on global south actors' agency and legitimacy. Instead, with a few exceptions, spaces displayed a conspicuous uniform human rights advocacy rhetoric, and Western identity labels summarized in the LGBT+ acronym. The interviews with social media content producers suggest that the LGBT+ community's dependency on international support may sway actors into what we call performative visibility, in self-controlled spaces. The study concludes that future analysis of Global South based activist's use of social media spaces' affordances including its potential for supporting de-colonialization efforts, must approach use as relational to actors' dependency on key resources such as funding and protection through affiliation.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Routledge, 2023
Nyckelord
LGBT plus, social media, activism, de-colonialization, Uganda
Nationell ämneskategori
Kulturgeografi
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-63069 (URN)10.1080/1369118X.2023.2252505 (DOI)001058837000001 ()2-s2.0-85169842541 (Scopus ID)
Tillgänglig från: 2023-10-10 Skapad: 2023-10-10 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-12-11Bibliografiskt granskad
Svensson, J. & Strand, C. (2023). Development cooperation & the stratification of LGBT+ activism international donors, elite activists & community members in Uganda Pride 2022. In: : . Paper presented at NordMedia conference 2023, 13 - 15 August 2023, Bergen, Norway.
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Development cooperation & the stratification of LGBT+ activism international donors, elite activists & community members in Uganda Pride 2022
2023 (Engelska)Konferensbidrag, Muntlig presentation med publicerat abstract (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Nyckelord
Development Cooperation, LGBT+, Post-Coloniality, Uganda, Visibility
Nationell ämneskategori
Medievetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-63646 (URN)
Konferens
NordMedia conference 2023, 13 - 15 August 2023, Bergen, Norway
Tillgänglig från: 2023-11-13 Skapad: 2023-11-13 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-06-11Bibliografiskt granskad
Projekt
Promoting Digital Security and Empowering Queer Youth through Storytelling Techniques; Malmö universitetBakom Algoritmen: En studie om programmerare och logikerna bakom dess arbete; Malmö universitet, Data SocietyAtt humanisera automatiserat beslutsfattande; Malmö universitetAtt navigera synlighet i kontexter av statssanktionerad homofobi: utvecklingsaktörer och hbtq-rättighetsförsvarare i Uganda och Ryssland
Organisationer
Identifikatorer
ORCID-id: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-5097-6218

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