Dilyana Mincheva
Biographic Data
| ID | 4487604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dilyana Mincheva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dilyana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mincheva |
| SIGNATURE | MINCHEVA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Against the aesthetics of cruelty
This article examines the #MahsaAmini protests through the lens of political aesthetics, vulnerability, and feminist resistance. Drawing on feminist theory, affect studies, and Middle Eastern scholarship, it analyzes how Iranian women's embodied acts of defiance confront the state's aesthetics of cruelty. Focusing on Instagram as a key semiotic battleground, the article shows how women's bodies became sites of political poesis. Using semiotic and…
At the Limits of Free Speech
Background: This article revisits a 2008 complaint brought against the Canadian magazine Maclean’s for its publication of excerpts from Mark Steyn’s 2006 book America Alone, a complaint whose dismissal was seen as affirmation of the principle of freedom of speech. The authors refute this claim, invoking the moral principles that underpin free speech, interrogating the notion of an ideal speech situation and an equitable public sphere in a case th…
DearSister and #MosqueMeToo
In the present paper I define Mona Eltahawy’s viral Twitter campaigns, #DearSister (2017) and #MosqueMeToo (2018), and her broad journalistic activism as a novel form of Islamic feminism, “adversarial Islamic feminism.” Provocative, angry, and highly performative, it is found on social media platforms, representing a new chapter in the articulations of the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of the Muslim female body, often caught between the Scylla…
The Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West
Orthodox by Design
DearSister and #MosqueMeToo
In the present paper I define Mona Eltahawy’s viral Twitter campaigns, #DearSister (2017) and #MosqueMeToo (2018), and her broad journalistic activism as a novel form of Islamic feminism, “adversarial Islamic feminism.” Provocative, angry, and highly performative, it is found on social media platforms, representing a new chapter in the articulations of the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of the Muslim female body, often caught between the Scylla…
Orthodox by Design
The Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West
DearSister and #MosqueMeToo
In the present paper I define Mona Eltahawy’s viral Twitter campaigns, #DearSister (2017) and #MosqueMeToo (2018), and her broad journalistic activism as a novel form of Islamic feminism, “adversarial Islamic feminism.” Provocative, angry, and highly performative, it is found on social media platforms, representing a new chapter in the articulations of the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of the Muslim female body, often caught between the Scylla…
At the Limits of Free Speech
Background: This article revisits a 2008 complaint brought against the Canadian magazine Maclean’s for its publication of excerpts from Mark Steyn’s 2006 book America Alone, a complaint whose dismissal was seen as affirmation of the principle of freedom of speech. The authors refute this claim, invoking the moral principles that underpin free speech, interrogating the notion of an ideal speech situation and an equitable public sphere in a case th…
Against the aesthetics of cruelty
This article examines the #MahsaAmini protests through the lens of political aesthetics, vulnerability, and feminist resistance. Drawing on feminist theory, affect studies, and Middle Eastern scholarship, it analyzes how Iranian women's embodied acts of defiance confront the state's aesthetics of cruelty. Focusing on Instagram as a key semiotic battleground, the article shows how women's bodies became sites of political poesis. Using semiotic and…
Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works)