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Internet non-exclusive mobilization and distance techno-affectivity: Feminist technopolitical approaches to Social movements for housing in pandemia and the techno-affectivity of migrated youngsters in Southern Europe

Migration
Feminism
Technology
Carla Panico
Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra
Caroline Santos
Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra
Carla Panico
Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra
Caroline Santos
Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra

Abstract

The Internet, as a demobilization and feminized space, is constituted by the power relations and the forms of exploitation that cross it, as well as the emancipatory potential that it expresses - in the light of critical feminist theory, in particular a part of it that focuses on e-motions as a social and political fact. The political use of new technologies (Technopolitics), unites social movements and migrations, as a sign of the interpretation of the net as a space of exercise of collective affections at distance. Migration linked to gentrification at urban scope has made emerge self-managed and wired Social movements, named here as Recent Global Social Movements, to occupy public spaces in the last decade around the world. These movements are characterized by some of these features: The precariousness linked to the increase of youth migration from the countries of Southern Europe (Italy, in the cases studied by Carla Panico), as the based of a new precariat-cognitariat digitally exploited, the struggles for the right of housing against gentrification (in the cases studied by Caroline Ramos), the progressive growth of far-right organizations in the same countries and the Emergence of new wave(s) of feminist movements. Against the current pandemic background to influence, subjectivity emotions and cognitions and material dimensions of life, the debate about the right to housing, migration, precariousness and the key-role of feminism, becomes even more urgent. Quarantine and isolation led to a new techno-emotional relationship at a distance, that we should analyze with a new theoretical framework yet to come.