Cousineau, Luc
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Item Open Access “Are there any other male friendly subs on here?” - Online men's rights groups as simultaneous communities of care and hate, inclusion and exclusion.(Taylor & Francis, 2023-09-25) Cousineau, Luc S.ABSTRACT Online communities provide spaces and places where (almost) anyone can find like-minded others. This is true of many digital leisure spaces and is especially true for men’s rights and other masculinist groups. In these groups, while they are engaged with acts of misogyny and supremacist discourses, some men meet the fundamental need ‘for meaningful social connection, to be part of a group, and to belong’ as well as to ‘“heal” modern alientation.’ More than simple gatherings, when these groups for men form around a perceived alienation from the mainstream they become spaces ‘to which [people] belong’ and believe that they ‘can act together to create change;’ Southern’s definition of a community of care. This paper establishes these groups as communities of care where care exists under Derridian erasure. This makes them important avenues for anti-feminist and misogynistic ideologies, exclusion, and violence, but through cultures of leisure inclusion and belonging. RÉSUMÉ Les communautés en ligne offrent des espaces et des lieux où (presque) tout le monde peut trouver d’autres personnes partageant les mêmes idées. Cela est vrai pour de nombreux espaces de loisirs numériques et particulièrement pour les droits des hommes et d’autres groupes masculinistes. Dans ces groupes, alors qu'ils se livrent à des actes de misogynie et à des discours suprémacistes, certains hommes répondent au besoin fondamental « d'établir un lien social significatif, de faire partie d'un groupe et d'y appartenir » ainsi que de « « guérir » l'aliénation moderne. ” Plus que de simples rassemblements, lorsque ces groupes d'hommes se forment autour d'une aliénation perçue du courant dominant, ils deviennent des espaces ” auxquels [les gens] appartiennent ” et croient qu'ils ” peuvent agir ensemble pour créer le changement”; la définition de Southern d'une communauté de soins. Cet article établit ces groupes comme des communautés de soins où les soins existent sous l'effacement derridien. Cela en fait des voies importantes pour les idéologies antiféministes et misogynes, l’exclusion et la violence, mais à travers des cultures de loisirs, d’inclusion et d’appartenance.Item Open Access Navigating a feminist ethics of care, ethnographic methods, and academic activism in researching men’s rights and the far right: a researcher’s struggles(Manchester University Press, 2024-04-15) Cousineau, Luc S.Researchers using feminist theory in immersive qualitative research like ethnography must contend with a feminist ethics of care, where the researcher is compelled to treat their participants like people, engaging with and protecting them from potential harm (Hesse-Biber, 2012). But what happens when the act of protecting the individual conflicts with the feminist imperative to “repair our world” (Stanley & Wise, 2013, p. 23)? Beyond dated critiques of feminist ethnography (Stacey, 1988), there are emotional and epistemological challenges when working with ethnography and feminist theory on what Fielding (1990) calls “unloved groups,” for example groups on the far and extreme-right. The conflict that gives rise to these difficulties is between the emancipatory and equity work essential to feminism, and the imperative to expose anti-equity rhetoric and ideology. Using a long-term study of two men’s communities on Reddit as grounding for its theorization, this chapter will explore the ethical dilemmas and decision-making when determining what content, who’s name, and what details to publish in academic work on groups that have the potential to cause social (and physical) harm. It will examine the misalignments between theory and practice when researcher interest in exposing dangerous ideologies conflicts with the call to protect. What meta-ethical hurdles might we jump to justify our own practice? Using the author’s experience in having to address these challenging issues, this chapter will expand the conversation between feminist ethics, ethnographic work, and academic activism, and how these can (and cannot) come together in research on the far-right.