Kata Kyrola
Dr. Kata Kyrola ([email protected]) is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at University College London. They co-edited the collection The Power of Vulnerability: Mobilizing Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-racist Media Cultures (2018) and are the author of The Weight of Images: Affect, Body Image and Fat in the Media (2014) as well as articles in e.g. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Theory, Sexualities, and Subjectivity.
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arts-based methodologies were employed to explore how three
girls address their experiences of sexual harassment as part of
‘crushes’ with boys in fourth and fifth grade. The study stems
from longitudinal research on how Finnish children from preschool
to pre-teen years are caught up in entanglements of
power in the formation of romantic relationship cultures. Such
entanglements often escape articulation and are therefore
difficult to study using more traditional research methods. During
the arts-based process, the girls began to negotiate consent and
self-determination in new ways through collecting, crafting, and
making a booklet and a YouTube video. Conceptualising the
changes as minor gestures (Manning 2016) that gradually
transform girls’ somatic archives (Paasonen 2013), we
argue that arts-methods can empower children to relate
differently to each other, refuse harassment and assert their desires.
arts-based methodologies were employed to explore how three
girls address their experiences of sexual harassment as part of
‘crushes’ with boys in fourth and fifth grade. The study stems
from longitudinal research on how Finnish children from preschool
to pre-teen years are caught up in entanglements of
power in the formation of romantic relationship cultures. Such
entanglements often escape articulation and are therefore
difficult to study using more traditional research methods. During
the arts-based process, the girls began to negotiate consent and
self-determination in new ways through collecting, crafting, and
making a booklet and a YouTube video. Conceptualising the
changes as minor gestures (Manning 2016) that gradually
transform girls’ somatic archives (Paasonen 2013), we
argue that arts-methods can empower children to relate
differently to each other, refuse harassment and assert their desires.
Providing keen insights into the political potential as well as the constraints of vulnerability for feminist, queer and anti-racist criticism, the book is of interest to scholars and students in media and cultural studies, affect theory, gender studies, queer theory and critical race studies.
The first mapping of the ways in which fat, gendered bodies are represented across a variety of media forms and genres, from reality television to Hollywood movies, from TV sitcoms to documentaries, from print magazine and news media to online pornography, The Weight of Images contends that media images of fat bodies are never only about fat; rather, they are about our relation to corporeal vulnerability overall.
A ground-breaking volume, engaging with a rich variety of media and cultural texts, whilst examining the possibilities of critical auto-ethnography to unravel how body images take shape affectively between bodies and images, this book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, media, cultural and gender studies, with interests in embodiment and affect.
Koolla on väliä! on ensimmäinen yleistajuinen, suomalaiseen tutkimukseen perustuva kokoelma. Se on yhdistelmä yhteiskuntatieteellistä ja humanistista tutkimusta ripauksella feminististä otetta.
Teoksen kirjoittajat pohtivat lihavuuteen liittyviä kulttuurisia, sosiaalisia, psyykkisiä ja kokemuksellisia kysymyksiä. Artikkeleissa ruumiin koon merkityksiä tarkastellaan muun muassa lihavien naisten kokemusten, anoreksiakokemusten, televisiomainosten, lihavuuden uhkakuvia luovien sanomalehtijuttujen, laihdutuskertomusten ja kaunokirjallisuuden avulla.