Dr Eva Haifa Giraud (she/her)

MA (hons), MA, PhD

Department of Sociological Studies

Senior Lecturer in Digital Media & Society

Deputy Director of Education

E.H.Giraud@sheffield.ac.uk

The Wave

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Dr Eva Haifa Giraud
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH

Profile

Eva joined the Department of Sociological Studies in 2021. After completing her PhD in 2011 in the University of Nottingham’s Centre of Critical Theory, she worked in the Department of Culture, Film and Media at Nottingham for three years, before gaining her first permanent post in Keele University’s Media Department in 2014.

Eva’s research has two strands. In empirical terms, she is interested in the ways that activists negotiate frictions associated with the media platforms they use, particularly the challenges posed by social media. Eva also has a broad conceptual interest in some of the potentials and tensions associated with non-anthropocentric theoretical work. She has drawn these themes together in her books What Comes After Entanglement? (Duke University Press, 2019) and Veganism: Politics, Practice and Theory (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). Eva is currently on the editorial team of the international journal Cultural Politics and associated book series 'a cultural politics book' (Duke University Press), and an associated editor of Environmental Humanities. Eva has an H-commons page here.

Research interests

Eva is currently CO-I on two funded projects:

‘#ContestingIslamophobia: Representation and Appropriation in Mediated Activism’ (AHRC-funded), with Professor Elizabeth Poole (P-I) and Professor Ed de Quincey, which examines the circulation and contestation of online hate speech,

and

‘Storytelling for Environmental Change: Tackling Air Pollution in the World’s Most Polluted City’ (GCRF funded), with Dr Pawas Bisht (P-I) and Dr Sabina Kidwai, which explores the possibility of creating participatory forms of environmental storytelling.

Main research interests:

Alternative and activist media
Food politics
‘Lifestyle’ ethics
Online dis/misinformation and hate speech
Mediated activism (particularly animal, anti-racist, and environmental activism)
Science and technology studies (STS)
Social & cultural theory (especially related to cultural politics)

Publications

Books

Haifa Giraud E (2021) Veganism. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Giraud EH (2019) What Comes after Entanglement?. Duke University Press.

Edited books

Turnbull J, Searle A, Anderson-Elliott H & Giraud E (Eds.) (2024) Digital Ecologies: Mediated Encounters, Governance, and Assemblages in More-Than-Human Worlds. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Journal articles

Richardson J, Giraud E, Poole E & de Quincey E (2024) ‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack. Media, Culture and Society. View this article in WRRO
POOLE E, RİCHARDSON JE, GİRAUD EH & DE QUİNCEY E (2023) Transnational In-Group Solidarity Networks in the Case of #Hellobrother. Medya ve Din Araştırmaları Dergisi, 6(2), 14-22.
Giraud E (2023) Mediating lifestyle movements: the ethical ecologies of digital veganisms. Journal of Cultural Economy. View this article in WRRO
Poole E, Giraud EH, Richardson JE & de Quincey E (2023) Expedient, affective, and sustained solidarities? Mediated contestations of Islamophobia in the case of Brexit, the Christchurch terror attack, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Media + Society, 9(3). View this article in WRRO
Giraud EH (2022) Animal studies. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 30(1), 18-39.
Hollin G & Giraud E (2022) Estranged companions : bed bugs, biologies, and affective histories. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 40(1), 80-98.
Giraud EH (2021) Animal studies. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 29(1), 153-175.
Poole E, Giraud EH & de Quincey E (2021) Tactical interventions in online hate speech : the case of #stopIslam. New Media & Society, 23(6), 1415-1442.
Giraud EH (2021) After the “Age of Wreckers and Exterminators?”. Cultural Politics, 17(1), 37-47.
Morris C, Kaljonen M, Aavik K, Balázs B, Cole M, Coles B, Efstathiu S, Fallon T, Foden M, Giraud EH , Goodman M et al (2021) Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1).
Giraud EH & Aghassi-Isfahani S-N (2020) Post-truths, common worlds, and critical politics : critiquing Bruno Latour’s renewed critique of critique. Cultural Politics, 16(1), 1-13.
Poole E & Giraud E (2019) Right-wing populism and mediated activism : creative responses and counter-narratives special collection. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1).
Giraud E, Hadley Kershaw E, Helliwell R & Hollin G (2019) Abundance in the Anthropocene. The Sociological Review, 67(2), 357-373.
Poole E, Giraud E & de Quincey E (2019) Contesting #StopIslam : the dynamics of a counter-narrative against right-wing populism. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1).
Giraud E, Hollin G, Potts T & Forsyth I (2018) A feminist menagerie. Feminist Review, 118(1), 61-79.
Hollin G, Forsyth I, Giraud E & Potts T (2017) (Dis)entangling Barad : materialisms and ethics. Social Studies of Science, 47(6), 918-941.
Hollin G & Giraud E (2017) Charisma and the clinic. Social Theory & Health, 15(2), 223-240.
Giraud E & Hollin G (2016) Care, laboratory beagles and affective utopia. Theory, Culture & Society, 33(4), 27-49. View this article in WRRO
Giraud E (2015) Subjectivity 2.0 : digital technologies, participatory media and communicative capitalism. Subjectivity, 8(2), 124-146. View this article in WRRO
Giraud E (2015) The cultural politics of pervasive drama : aural narrative, digital media and re-compositions of urban space. Journal of Sonic Studies(9). View this article in WRRO
Giraud E (2015) Feminist praxis, critical theory and informal hierarchies. Journal of Feminist Scholarship(7/8), 43-60. View this article in WRRO
Giraud E (2014) Has radical participatory online media really ‘failed’? Indymedia and its legacies. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 20(4), 419-437. View this article in WRRO
Giraud E (2013) Veganism as Affirmative Biopolitics: Moving Towards a Posthumanist Ethics?. PhaenEx, 8(2), 47-47.
Giraud E (2013) ‘Beasts of Burden’: Productive Tensions between Haraway and Radical Animal Rights Activism. Culture, Theory and Critique, 54(1), 102-120.
Giraud E (2011) Mclibel to Mcspotlight: The impact of information and communication technologies upon radical pampheteering. E-Sharp(12).
Giraud E, Poole E, de Quincey E & Richardson J () Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis.. Sociological Review.
Giraud E () Reassembling the Banal; Pausing Before Inventing Anew. Dialogues in Sociology.
Drummond M, Oliver C, Palmer J & Giraud EH () Unfamiliar archives: a roundtable on estrangement, secrets, and loss. Cultural Politics. View this article in WRRO
Giraud EH & Wright T () Digital archives as resisting displacement. Cultural Politics. View this article in WRRO

Chapters

Giraud E (2024) Looking Back, to Learn From, Activist Histories: Reflecting on the Relationship between Critical Animal Studies and Critical Pedagogy In Carreras MR, Leth-Espensen M, Lindström L, Linné T, Song Lopez G & Yndal-Olsen N (Ed.), Reimagining Species Relations: A Decade of Studying and Teaching Critical Animal Studies at Lund University (pp. 57-72). Lund University
Giraud EH (2024) "That’ll do pig!" Critical potentials in celebrity-activist media ecologies In Parkinson C & Herring L (Ed.), Animal Activism on and Off Screen Sydney: Sydney University Press. View this article in WRRO
Giraud EH & White R (2022) Activist-led theory?, Feminist Animal Studies (pp. 64-81). Routledge
Giraud E (2021) The “posthumanists”, The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies (pp. 50-61). Routledge
Giraud E & Poole E (2021) Constructing digital counter-narratives as a response to disinformation and populism, The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism (pp. 519-528). Routledge
Giraud E (2017) Displacement, ‘failure’ and friction, Digital Food Activism (pp. 130-150). Routledge
Giraud E & Hollin G (2016) Laboratory beagles and affective co-productions of knowledge, Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds (pp. 163-177).
Giraud E (2015) Practice as theory: learning from food activism and performative protest In Gillespie K & Collard R-C (Ed.), Critical Animal Geographies Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World (pp. 36-53). Routledge

Book reviews

Giraud EH (2023) Laughing Then Thinking. New Formations, 107(107), 241-244.
Giraud E (2022) Ethical complexities and interdisciplinary pathways for animal studies. Society & Animals.
Giraud EH (2020) Book Forum. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 82, 101267-101267.
Giraud E (2020) Treré, E. (2019). Hybrid media activism: Ecologies, imaginaries, algorithms. London: Routledge, 222 pp.. Communications, 45(2), 264-266.
Giraud E (2019) The planetary is political. BioSocieties, 14(3), 472-481.
Giraud E (2017) Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation. European Journal of Communication, 32(1), 71-74.
Giraud E & Hollin G (2016) Thom van Dooren’s Flight Ways. Somatosphere.
Giraud E & Hollin G (2016) Book review : Thom van Dooren’s Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the End of Extinction. Somatosphere. View this article in WRRO
Giraud E & Hollin G (2016) Jamie Lorimer’s Wildlife in the Anthropocene’. Theory, Culture & Society. Theory, Culture and Society.
Hollin G & Giraud E (2016) Review: Jamie Lorimer, ‘Wildlife in the Anthropocene’. Theory, Culture and Society. View this article in WRRO
Giraud E (2015) Cynthia Willett’s Interspecies Ethics. Somatosphere.
Giraud E (2014) Choose Zoe: Rosi Braidotti’s the Posthuman. Radical Philosophy(184).

Other

Giraud E (2018) New Media Theory.

Teaching interests: Eva is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has longstanding commitments to critical pedagogies, which aim to empower students through experiential, dialogical approaches to learning. She has published about strategies for teaching media and social theory, and was awarded a university-wide teaching excellence award for pedagogical work at her previous institution. Eva has particular interest in finding ways to make difficult theory accessible to students, as she struggled with understanding certain concepts and debates when she began her studies – and still remembers the moment when things ‘clicked’ for her, so always hopes she can do the same for her students.

Teaching activities

Eva currently teaches on the following modules:

SCS2024 Digital Media and Social Change
SCS6109 Global Challenges in Digital Society

PhD supervision

Eva’s PhD supervision has been relatively wide-ranging and includes projects focused on: patient activism in an era of disinformation, postfeminist identity in popular film and television, empowerment discourses in hijab fashion Instagram communities, media reporting of global happiness indexes, safe spaces and everyday utopia, gender politics and hierarchy in on/offline cosplay communities, and the cultural politics of drone warfare.

Eva is particularly interested in supporting future projects on topics such as: food activism, environmental politics, animal activism and activist media ecologies, or any of her other research interests listed above. She is also happy to support projects that engage with social and cultural theory more widely (especially related to feminist STS and cultural politics)