Coping with mundane (cyber-)violence: FLINTA* youth's strategies in the resurgent patriarchy
Recent research has shown that the permeation of everyday life by mobile and intimate digital technologies has significantly expanded spatial reach and contributed to the (re)production and normalisation of violence across entangled online and offline spaces. Yet, how do affected populations navigat...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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June 2026
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Digital geography and society
Year: 2026, Jahrgang: 10, Pages: 1-11 |
| ISSN: | 2666-3783 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100155 |
| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100155 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666378325000443 
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| Verfasserangaben: | Tabea Bork-Hüffer, Lea Lübbert, Belinda Mahlknecht |
| Zusammenfassung: | Recent research has shown that the permeation of everyday life by mobile and intimate digital technologies has significantly expanded spatial reach and contributed to the (re)production and normalisation of violence across entangled online and offline spaces. Yet, how do affected populations navigate these conditions and what does that tell us about the nature of geographies of mundane (cyber-)violence? Situated at the intersection of digital, feminist, and young people's geographies, this article examines the strategies used by FLINTA* (female, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, trans, agender) youth in Austria and Germany to endure, adapt to, and rework violence and discrimination within their entangled online and offline spaces. Drawing on a qualitative multi-method study involving FLINTA* youth, we identify their spatial strategies in response to heteronormative discourses, persistent traditional gender norms, and stereotypes that shape relations of power and violence. The findings highlight the role that technologies play in both enabling micro-level forms of individual and collective empowerment and in reinforcing norms of femininity, masculinity, and heteronormativity within a resurgent patriarchy that continually reproduces and normalises gendered and sexualised violence. Youth coping and reworking efforts thereby meander between progress and setback, empowerment and boundary, requiring constant weighing and adjustment. They are essentially spatial strategies, exposing the complex interrelations between space, gender, and violence stretched across entangled socio-material-digital spheres. Overall, the article contributes to the conceptualisation of digital geographies of mundane violence from an intersectional feminist perspective, foregrounding how FLINTA* youth live, feel, and negotiate the contradictions of power and possibility in their everyday spaces. |
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| Beschreibung: | Gesehen am 24.03.2026 Available online 19 December 2025 |
| Beschreibung: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2666-3783 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100155 |