The book “Cidadania Digital e Culturas do Contemporâneo” (“Digital Citizenship and Contemporary Cultures”), released July 2024 during the 3rd RNEC Congress, features a chapter authored by Principal Investigator Carla Cerqueira, Co-Principal Investigator Célia Taborda, and post-doctoral fellow Ana Sofia Pereira from the FEMglocal - Glocal feminist movements: interactions and contradictions research project, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through national funds (PTDC/COM-CSS/4049/2021 / DOI 10.54499/PTDC/COM-CSS/4049/2021).
Their chapter, “Movimentos feministas glocais: ações de resistência nas redes e nas ruas” (Glocal feminist movements: resistance actions online and in the streets), examines the #MeToo movement as a key example of transnational feminist activism. These “new” movements, blending digital and street activism, reveal the complexities of studying “glocal” feminisms, which function on both local and global scales. Digital platforms help feminist movements cross borders, sharing personal stories through hashtags that gain collective, international dimensions. This synergy between online and street activism challenges patriarchal norms and amplifies marginalized voices. The chapter discusses the #MeToo movement’s nuances, potential, and limitations in reclaiming silenced voices and addressing sexual harassment and violence through collective action. Informed by situated knowledge (Haraway, 1988, 1995), it also explores the movement’s local impact in Portugal, its challenges, and the sociocultural changes it sparks.
The book is available for reading through the following link: https://ciac.pt/publicacoes/cidadania-digital-e-culturas-do-contemporaneo/.