Shutdown, shadowbanned, doxxed: Hindutva governance and digital governmentalities
| dc.creator | Crawford, Claire | |
| dc.date | 2025-11-14T00:31:19Z | |
| dc.date | 2026-06-06 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-08-03T04:24:25Z | |
| dc.description | This article details the internet shutdowns, platform shadowbanning, and countermovement doxxing as endured by feminist activists in India. Taken together, these practices and tools represent a digital Hindutva governance that comprises and co-constitutes the power of the state, corporations, and pro-government actors. This governance works through diffused mechanisms that further construct a new digital governmentality, as activists limit their own activity in response to perceived threats. The findings build on feminist scholarship detailing digital space as gendered and challenge reductive, state-centric narratives about digital capitalism and colonialism. The study is based on digital ethnographic fieldwork with feminist activists in Hindi- and English-speaking northern India between 2019 and 2023 and demonstrates the value of thinking with those who must navigate, endure, and resist digital power. | |
| dc.description | Leverhulme Trust | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | 1461-6742 | |
| dc.identifier | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/392296 | |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.123043 | |
| dc.identifier | 1468-4470 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repo.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/188945 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | |
| dc.publisher | Department of Politics and International Studies | |
| dc.publisher | https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2026.2668363 | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
| dc.rights | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | 4405 Gender Studies | |
| dc.subject | 44 Human Society | |
| dc.title | Shutdown, shadowbanned, doxxed: Hindutva governance and digital governmentalities | |
| dc.type | Article |