“These things happen” : hashtag activism and sexual harassment in the South African film and television industries

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dc.contributor.author Paleker, Gairoonisa
dc.date.accessioned 2021-04-14T14:02:46Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.description.abstract In August 2017, the South African advocacy group Sisters Working in Film and Television (SWIFT) launched the #ThatsNotOk campaign, which has to date produced six episodes of short films (one episode in two parts, making it seven in total) elucidating the different forms sexual harassment takes, and the different scenarios in which it occurs, in the South African film and television industries. This profile engages with SWIFT and the Public Service Announcement (PSA) films as discursive sites and texts respectively, and provides textual analyses of the PSAs in the context of digital feminism and feminist activism against sexual harassment in the film and television industries. The profile motivates that as expressions of digital feminism, the PSAs critique the pervasiveness and normalisation of sexual harassment, while failing to engage with or critique the neoliberal logic and structure of the film and television industries. en_ZA
dc.description.department Historical and Heritage Studies en_ZA
dc.description.embargo 2021-11-12
dc.description.librarian hj2021 en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ragn20 en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Gairoonisa Paleker (2020) “These things happen”: Hashtag activism and sexual harassment in the South African film and television industries, Agenda, 34:1, 40-47, DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1720162. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 1013-0950 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2158-978X (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1080/10130950.2020.1720162
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79449
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Routledge en_ZA
dc.rights © 2020 G. Paleker. This is an electronic version of an article published in Agenda, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 40-47, 2020. doi : 10.1080/10130950.2020.1720162. Agenda is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/ragn20. en_ZA
dc.subject Sisters working in film and television (SWIFT) en_ZA
dc.subject South African film and television en_ZA
dc.subject #ThatsNotOk en_ZA
dc.subject Hashtag activism en_ZA
dc.subject Digital feminism en_ZA
dc.title “These things happen” : hashtag activism and sexual harassment in the South African film and television industries en_ZA
dc.type Postprint Article en_ZA


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