Islamic feminism on the web 2.0: the case of blogistan
Journal Title: PAAKAT: Revista de Tecnología y Sociedad - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 17
Abstract
The present article shown the result that are part of the project Islamic Feminism in Iran that was developed within the Delfin program in the summer of 2017, from which theoretical and methodological discussion between internet and islam were generated (Medina, 2019), and the empirical observation (Sepeda, 2018). The present paper brings the reader closer to the proposals of feminism that have been elaborated through Islamic theology and practice, which is called Islamic feminism. Here we approach this current of thought and praxis from the Iranian case that was generated in the mid-twentieth century in reply to the political regime of Muhammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979), as well as the new regime of Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini and managed to configure and expand as a movement in web 2.0, that is, on the internet, which is called blogistan because it was mainly spread through blogs. The term blogistan is exposed as part of the dynamics of the virtual umma of the internet (Roy, 2003), and the feminist discourse and its impact outside of Iran is analyzed from the virtual ethnography. The blogistan case is observed as a space of praxis and resistance that escapes the Iranian political authorities and that in the space of the flows (Castells, 2011) can mobilize, adhere or reconfigure other proposals.
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Arely Medina
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