Sama Khosravi Ooryad
Biographic Data
| ID | 1634796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sama Khosravi Ooryad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sama Khosravi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ooryad |
| SIGNATURE | OORYAD S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2303-1582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The manosphere between the global and the local
The so-called manosphere, a cluster of misogynist and anti-feminist online communities, has grown significantly in recent years. Often regarded as a primary English-speaking hub situated in the anglophone West, it has influenced online misogyny on a global scale where ideas, dynamics, and discourses are copied, adapted, or translated into different languages. Going beyond dichotomous lines between the Western/non-Western manosphere, we call for a…
Eerie Captures of Violence and Memetic Rhythmicality of Resistance during the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Movement
This article adopts media-theoretical and somatechnics-focused approaches, as well as a post-cinematic framework to unpack the mediated, intimate, affective, memetic, and rhythmic ways in which the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ revolts and their violent suppression unfolded on- and off-screen. In this article, I ask the following questions: How can we understand violence in the hyper-mediated era of bodies capturing their own deaths online? What kinds o…
Memeing back at misogyny
In this article, I examine the emergence of "meme-feminism" on Iranian social media, which adopts innovative tactics to combat gendered hate online. I propose the concept of "memeing back" at misogyny and numerous gendered inequalities as not only a unique feminist tactic but also a political and satirical world-building practice. With a detailed analysis of theorizations of (digital) feminist activism and mediated visual humor, I demonstrate how…
Dadkhah mothers of Iran, from Khavaran to Aban
This article offers a theoretical account of the figure of the 'Dadkhah mother', the 'justice-seeking mother', by highlighting her historical, political and feminist significance in contemporary Iran and beyond. By drawing on a conceptual analysis of visual images, oral and written history and social media posts, I outline the key qualities of the figure of the Dadkhah mother and her longstanding activism and solidarity-building practices. I elab…
Inside the Migrant Academic’s Body
This chapter reflects on my experiences as an early researcher of colour in Dutch academia and in confronting post-graduation challenges. I recount some exclusionary moments that compelled me to realize my own positionality as a ‘strategic outsider’. With the help of previous thinkers who have also felt like outsiders and subsequently theorized ways to navigate ‘outsideness,’ I share examples from my time as a GEMMA student in the Netherlands to …
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances
This article examines the rising Farsi ‘manosphere’ of Iran and the case of online misogynistic, anti-feminist and anti-queer mobilisations across social media platforms and messaging applications. It focuses on memes and memetic figures that are circulated on Iranian social media and proposes the term ‘memetic alliances’ to convey complicated and unforeseen mutations of today’s internet meme culture and online hate culture. Moreover, it unpacks …
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances
This article examines the rising Farsi ‘manosphere’ of Iran and the case of online misogynistic, anti-feminist and anti-queer mobilisations across social media platforms and messaging applications. It focuses on memes and memetic figures that are circulated on Iranian social media and proposes the term ‘memetic alliances’ to convey complicated and unforeseen mutations of today’s internet meme culture and online hate culture. Moreover, it unpacks …
Eerie Captures of Violence and Memetic Rhythmicality of Resistance during the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Movement
This article adopts media-theoretical and somatechnics-focused approaches, as well as a post-cinematic framework to unpack the mediated, intimate, affective, memetic, and rhythmic ways in which the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ revolts and their violent suppression unfolded on- and off-screen. In this article, I ask the following questions: How can we understand violence in the hyper-mediated era of bodies capturing their own deaths online? What kinds o…
Memeing back at misogyny
In this article, I examine the emergence of "meme-feminism" on Iranian social media, which adopts innovative tactics to combat gendered hate online. I propose the concept of "memeing back" at misogyny and numerous gendered inequalities as not only a unique feminist tactic but also a political and satirical world-building practice. With a detailed analysis of theorizations of (digital) feminist activism and mediated visual humor, I demonstrate how…
Inside the Migrant Academic’s Body
This chapter reflects on my experiences as an early researcher of colour in Dutch academia and in confronting post-graduation challenges. I recount some exclusionary moments that compelled me to realize my own positionality as a ‘strategic outsider’. With the help of previous thinkers who have also felt like outsiders and subsequently theorized ways to navigate ‘outsideness,’ I share examples from my time as a GEMMA student in the Netherlands to …
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances
This article examines the rising Farsi ‘manosphere’ of Iran and the case of online misogynistic, anti-feminist and anti-queer mobilisations across social media platforms and messaging applications. It focuses on memes and memetic figures that are circulated on Iranian social media and proposes the term ‘memetic alliances’ to convey complicated and unforeseen mutations of today’s internet meme culture and online hate culture. Moreover, it unpacks …
Eerie Captures of Violence and Memetic Rhythmicality of Resistance during the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Movement
This article adopts media-theoretical and somatechnics-focused approaches, as well as a post-cinematic framework to unpack the mediated, intimate, affective, memetic, and rhythmic ways in which the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ revolts and their violent suppression unfolded on- and off-screen. In this article, I ask the following questions: How can we understand violence in the hyper-mediated era of bodies capturing their own deaths online? What kinds o…
Memeing back at misogyny
In this article, I examine the emergence of "meme-feminism" on Iranian social media, which adopts innovative tactics to combat gendered hate online. I propose the concept of "memeing back" at misogyny and numerous gendered inequalities as not only a unique feminist tactic but also a political and satirical world-building practice. With a detailed analysis of theorizations of (digital) feminist activism and mediated visual humor, I demonstrate how…
Dadkhah mothers of Iran, from Khavaran to Aban
This article offers a theoretical account of the figure of the 'Dadkhah mother', the 'justice-seeking mother', by highlighting her historical, political and feminist significance in contemporary Iran and beyond. By drawing on a conceptual analysis of visual images, oral and written history and social media posts, I outline the key qualities of the figure of the Dadkhah mother and her longstanding activism and solidarity-building practices. I elab…
The manosphere between the global and the local
The so-called manosphere, a cluster of misogynist and anti-feminist online communities, has grown significantly in recent years. Often regarded as a primary English-speaking hub situated in the anglophone West, it has influenced online misogyny on a global scale where ideas, dynamics, and discourses are copied, adapted, or translated into different languages. Going beyond dichotomous lines between the Western/non-Western manosphere, we call for a…
Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Authoritarianism (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (2 works)