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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 1 / 2024  
         
  Article:   RUSSIA’S OTHER WAR: PATRIARCHAL CULTURE ANDDOMESTIC VIOLENCE. THE #ЯНЕБОЮСЬСКАЗАТЬ(#IAMNOTAFRAIDTOSPEAK) JULY 2016 CAMPAIGN ON VKONTAKTE.

Authors:  IOANA-MĂDĂLINA MIRON.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbeuropaea.2023.1.13

Published Online: 2024-06-30
Published Print: 2024-06-30
pp. 233-248

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This article is dedicated to a controversial topic for Russian society, namely the campaign #ЯнеБоюсьСказать (#IamNotAfraidToSpeak) that took place in VKontakte’s Russian speaking community in July 2016. First the article is based on a theoretical framework that draws attention to the concept of contentious politics and feminist movement. Second, I analysed the messages associated with #IamNotAfraidToSpeak, and argue that the campaign raised the visibility of the problem of domestic violence and patriarchal culture in the post-Soviet Russia, and this helped increase the significance of women’s linguistic agency and made #IamNotAfraidToSpeak the first large-scale feminist movement in Russia. Moreover, in addition to the theoretical background, the paper focuses on a case study: The #ЯНеБоюсьСказать(#IAmNotAfraidToSpeak) campaign of July 2016 on VKontakte.

Keywords: gender-based violence in Russia, feminist movements, former Soviet, flashmob, #IamNotAfraidToSpeak, VKontakte.
 
         
     
         
         
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