Niloofar Hooman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6566858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niloofar Hooman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niloofar |
| FAMILY NAME | Hooman |
| SIGNATURE | HOOMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Against the aesthetics of cruelty: MahsaAmini, vulnerability, and feminist resistance in Iran
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…
Breaking boundaries, baring bodies: Subversion in the works of Iranian feminist artists on Instagram
The Iranian female body has historically been interrogated and disciplined by organizations in power that reinforce the Islamic regime’s socio-political ideologies and cultural frameworks. Drawing on feminist literature on the female body and digital activism, this qualitative study addresses nude art practices. It specifically focuses on three Iranian female artists in the diaspora, whose shared work on Instagram has transformed the female body,…
Hashtag feminism in a blocked context: The mechanisms of unfolding and disrupting #rape on Persian Twitter
Despite the growing body of literature on hashtag feminism in Western contexts, there is still a significant gap in our knowledge of the ways that feminist hashtag movements are developed in authoritarian societies. Moreover, we do not know much about the mechanisms by which a feminist hashtag movement is disrupted, particularly in non-democratic regimes. Drawing on and contributing to the hashtag feminism literature, we undertook a discursive ap…
How a Connective Action Is Disrupted in Restrictive Contexts? The Case of Dismantling #Rape on Persian Twitter
Having reduced the cost of political activism, social media has provided room for ordinary citizens to engage in politics, build networks, spread information, and resist oppressive regulation (Howard & Hussain, 2013; Margetts et al., 2016). The ideas of connective action (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012) and hashtag activism (Jackson et al., 2020) are recent endeavors to theorize such transitions. However, the existing literature has overemphasized the…
Hashtag feminism in a blocked context: The mechanisms of unfolding and disrupting #rape on Persian Twitter
Despite the growing body of literature on hashtag feminism in Western contexts, there is still a significant gap in our knowledge of the ways that feminist hashtag movements are developed in authoritarian societies. Moreover, we do not know much about the mechanisms by which a feminist hashtag movement is disrupted, particularly in non-democratic regimes. Drawing on and contributing to the hashtag feminism literature, we undertook a discursive ap…
How a Connective Action Is Disrupted in Restrictive Contexts? The Case of Dismantling #Rape on Persian Twitter
Having reduced the cost of political activism, social media has provided room for ordinary citizens to engage in politics, build networks, spread information, and resist oppressive regulation (Howard & Hussain, 2013; Margetts et al., 2016). The ideas of connective action (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012) and hashtag activism (Jackson et al., 2020) are recent endeavors to theorize such transitions. However, the existing literature has overemphasized the…
Hashtag feminism in a blocked context: The mechanisms of unfolding and disrupting #rape on Persian Twitter
Despite the growing body of literature on hashtag feminism in Western contexts, there is still a significant gap in our knowledge of the ways that feminist hashtag movements are developed in authoritarian societies. Moreover, we do not know much about the mechanisms by which a feminist hashtag movement is disrupted, particularly in non-democratic regimes. Drawing on and contributing to the hashtag feminism literature, we undertook a discursive ap…
Against the aesthetics of cruelty: MahsaAmini, vulnerability, and feminist resistance in Iran
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…
Breaking boundaries, baring bodies: Subversion in the works of Iranian feminist artists on Instagram
The Iranian female body has historically been interrogated and disciplined by organizations in power that reinforce the Islamic regime’s socio-political ideologies and cultural frameworks. Drawing on feminist literature on the female body and digital activism, this qualitative study addresses nude art practices. It specifically focuses on three Iranian female artists in the diaspora, whose shared work on Instagram has transformed the female body,…
Social media (3 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social Media and Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Authoritarianism (1 works)