‘The patriarchy can’t dance with us’
The music festival Statement was initiated as a response to sexual violence towards women at other festivals, and during the work of creating a safe festival, separatism became the feminist strategy. In this paper we analyse media reporting from Statement, with a focus on the desire for safety. Usi...
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The music festival Statement was initiated as a response to sexual violence towards women at other festivals, and during the work of creating a safe festival, separatism became the feminist strategy. In this paper we analyse media reporting from Statement, with a focus on the desire for safety. Using psychoanalytical discourse theory, we analyse different media materials, focusing on emotive language and fantasmatic narratives. We argue that in the media representations, a desire for safety is linked to enjoyment, opportunities to be oneself, predictability and lack of conflict. Safety is also strongly represented as linked to a focus on security and the absent man is continuously present in the media articulations. While the media representations tend to reconstruct a heterosexual Woman with a universal experience, the focus on the patriarchy, a common ‘we’ and the emotive language might nevertheless spur political mobilisation.
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| spelling | doaj.art-9f5fd7fff83041bf8ac78df5246906152023-04-06T08:41:32ZengLinköping University Electronic PressCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research2000-15252023-04-0110.3384/cu.4146‘The patriarchy can’t dance with us’Johanna Lauri0Ida Linander1Umeå UniversityUmeå University, Epidemiology and Global Health The music festival Statement was initiated as a response to sexual violence towards women at other festivals, and during the work of creating a safe festival, separatism became the feminist strategy. In this paper we analyse media reporting from Statement, with a focus on the desire for safety. Using psychoanalytical discourse theory, we analyse different media materials, focusing on emotive language and fantasmatic narratives. We argue that in the media representations, a desire for safety is linked to enjoyment, opportunities to be oneself, predictability and lack of conflict. Safety is also strongly represented as linked to a focus on security and the absent man is continuously present in the media articulations. While the media representations tend to reconstruct a heterosexual Woman with a universal experience, the focus on the patriarchy, a common ‘we’ and the emotive language might nevertheless spur political mobilisation. https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/4146Separatismsafetyfantasypsychoanalysisdesirefestival |
| spellingShingle | Johanna Lauri Ida Linander ‘The patriarchy can’t dance with us’ Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research Separatism safety fantasy psychoanalysis desire festival |
| title | ‘The patriarchy can’t dance with us’ |
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| title_short | ‘The patriarchy can’t dance with us’ |
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| topic | Separatism safety fantasy psychoanalysis desire festival |
| url | https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/4146 |
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