Heřmanová, Marie;
(2025)
“All the sisters of the world”: pan-Slavic conspiracies and the weaponization of womanhood.
Journal of Information Technology & Politics
pp. 1-14.
10.1080/19331681.2025.2473988.
(In press).
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Abstract
The article looks at the development of the idea of pan-Slavism, historically dating back to the 19th century, and its reincarnation across Czech and Slovak online conspiracy spaces, particularly Telegram channels, focusing on how the notion of “sisterhood” is discussed and developed in them. The analysis highlights two dimensions of Pan-Slavic sisterhood: (a) an imagined community built on symbolic references to a shared history and (b) a unit of political organization that emphasizes the role of women in restructuring society according to a “tradition” based in this imagined history. It argues that sisterhood is, similar to the tradwife movement in the US, rooted in a deeper ideological critique of neoliberal society and, ultimately, employed as a tool of female empowerment. Methodologically, the analysis relies on ethnographic methods (participant and non-participant observation and ethnographic content analysis).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | “All the sisters of the world”: pan-Slavic conspiracies and the weaponization of womanhood |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19331681.2025.2473988 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2025.2473988 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Conspiracy theorie, span-Slavism, gender, sisterhood, Telegram, ethnography |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10215011 |
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