Daniel N Maroun
Biographic Data
| ID | 760663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel N Maroun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel N |
| FAMILY NAME | Maroun |
| SIGNATURE | MAROUN D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1756-4075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Efficacy of solidarity as a public health response
This article examines solidarity as both a promise and a problem in public health discourse. Against accounts that treat solidarity as a moral feeling, civic mood or exhortation to comply, it argues that solidarity becomes ethically meaningful only when it is tethered to action, institutional obligation and distributive consequence. The article develops this claim through a medical humanities reading of two epidemic archives: HIV/AIDS activism an…
Fifty years of Contemporary French Civilization: Ongoing conversations and future directions
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ .
Fighting misogynoir on social media: Rokhaya Diallo’s battle against Pascal Bruckner on Twitter/X
Maroun proposes an investigation of how Twitter (the platform now rebranded as X) can serve as a tool of resistance to mainstream media’s power to drive narratives and influence public discourse. Through a close analysis of French Afrofeminist Rokhaya Diallo’s 21 October 2020 post (tweet) and its quote tweets in defence of her appearance on 28 minutes on ARTE, he suggests a novel way of understanding how social media users interact with mainstrea…
Haunted sites and haunted memories: HIV/Aids temporalities in the contemporary French cultural memory
Reflective essay: Reconsidering the body: language and racial corporeality in France
French universalist disparities: A racial capitalist reading of French universalism
This article unveils how the French political ideology of universalism benefits from the perpetual racialization of others. Drawing from various definitions and understandings of racial capitalism, I demonstrate how the success of universalism relies on the racialization of French society to strengthen its homogenizing cultural hegemony. Cedric Robinson notes that European civilization has historically demonstrated a tendency to differentiate soc…
Transing the Maghreb: Permeable performances of queerness in Abdellah Taïa, Nina Bouraoui, and beyond
This essay explores how a trans theoretical lens can inform interpretations and performances of queer Maghrebi sexualities in various forms of cultural productions like the works of Moroccan author Abdellah Taïa, Algerian author Nina Bouraoui, as well as podcasts and music by Maghrebi artists. It draws from trans theorists to emphasize how a productive performativity resides in the intermediality, the in between of a transition (e.g. transnationa…
Transcendence and Immanence in Michel Houellebecq’s Les Particules élémentaires
Juxtaposing Beauvoir’s view of sexual difference in The Second Sex with Michel Houellebecq’s representation of a flailing masculine hegemony in Les Particules élémentaires (Atomised/The Elementary Particles) elucidates how the novel’s main protagonists, Bruno and Michel, fall from transcendence to immanence as they navigate new performances of masculinity that are not anchored in traditional virile models. This article examines how this degradati…
The 10th Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award Winning Essay: Agency, culpability, and police brutality: French reports of death during les contrôles policiers
This article proposes an analysis of recurrent linguistic strategies that have become prevalent in French journalistic writing about les contrôles policiers. It compares the coverage between 2016 and 2022 from two French newspapers, Libération and Le Figaro, and their use of temporal adverbs when discussing the deaths of individuals of color in police custody. Drawing from Norman Fairclough, Judith Butler, and discourse analysis, as well as the b…
Un regard rétrospectif sur l’avenir: Entretien avec Christophe Martet
Introduction: The show must go on: HIV/Aids and queer studies in twenty-first-century France
Forty years of HIV/Aids narratives: What’s next
This essay proposes to look across HIV/AIDS narratives in order to trace a larger relationship between the onset, development, and perceived disappearance of both HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS literature - what I dub its literary epidemiology. I aim to trace and compare both the literary transmission and depiction of HIV/AIDS in the major novels of this genre by authors like Hélène Laygues, Michel Simonin, Hervé Guibert, Erik Rémès, Guillaume Dustan, Tri…
Reflective essay: Reconsidering the body: language and racial corporeality in France
French universalist disparities: A racial capitalist reading of French universalism
This article unveils how the French political ideology of universalism benefits from the perpetual racialization of others. Drawing from various definitions and understandings of racial capitalism, I demonstrate how the success of universalism relies on the racialization of French society to strengthen its homogenizing cultural hegemony. Cedric Robinson notes that European civilization has historically demonstrated a tendency to differentiate soc…
The 10th Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award Winning Essay: Agency, culpability, and police brutality: French reports of death during les contrôles policiers
This article proposes an analysis of recurrent linguistic strategies that have become prevalent in French journalistic writing about les contrôles policiers. It compares the coverage between 2016 and 2022 from two French newspapers, Libération and Le Figaro, and their use of temporal adverbs when discussing the deaths of individuals of color in police custody. Drawing from Norman Fairclough, Judith Butler, and discourse analysis, as well as the b…
Un regard rétrospectif sur l’avenir: Entretien avec Christophe Martet
Introduction: The show must go on: HIV/Aids and queer studies in twenty-first-century France
Forty years of HIV/Aids narratives: What’s next
This essay proposes to look across HIV/AIDS narratives in order to trace a larger relationship between the onset, development, and perceived disappearance of both HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS literature - what I dub its literary epidemiology. I aim to trace and compare both the literary transmission and depiction of HIV/AIDS in the major novels of this genre by authors like Hélène Laygues, Michel Simonin, Hervé Guibert, Erik Rémès, Guillaume Dustan, Tri…
Transcendence and Immanence in Michel Houellebecq’s Les Particules élémentaires
Juxtaposing Beauvoir’s view of sexual difference in The Second Sex with Michel Houellebecq’s representation of a flailing masculine hegemony in Les Particules élémentaires (Atomised/The Elementary Particles) elucidates how the novel’s main protagonists, Bruno and Michel, fall from transcendence to immanence as they navigate new performances of masculinity that are not anchored in traditional virile models. This article examines how this degradati…
The 10th Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award Winning Essay: Agency, culpability, and police brutality: French reports of death during les contrôles policiers
This article proposes an analysis of recurrent linguistic strategies that have become prevalent in French journalistic writing about les contrôles policiers. It compares the coverage between 2016 and 2022 from two French newspapers, Libération and Le Figaro, and their use of temporal adverbs when discussing the deaths of individuals of color in police custody. Drawing from Norman Fairclough, Judith Butler, and discourse analysis, as well as the b…
French universalist disparities: A racial capitalist reading of French universalism
This article unveils how the French political ideology of universalism benefits from the perpetual racialization of others. Drawing from various definitions and understandings of racial capitalism, I demonstrate how the success of universalism relies on the racialization of French society to strengthen its homogenizing cultural hegemony. Cedric Robinson notes that European civilization has historically demonstrated a tendency to differentiate soc…
Transing the Maghreb: Permeable performances of queerness in Abdellah Taïa, Nina Bouraoui, and beyond
This essay explores how a trans theoretical lens can inform interpretations and performances of queer Maghrebi sexualities in various forms of cultural productions like the works of Moroccan author Abdellah Taïa, Algerian author Nina Bouraoui, as well as podcasts and music by Maghrebi artists. It draws from trans theorists to emphasize how a productive performativity resides in the intermediality, the in between of a transition (e.g. transnationa…
Haunted sites and haunted memories: HIV/Aids temporalities in the contemporary French cultural memory
Reflective essay: Reconsidering the body: language and racial corporeality in France
Efficacy of solidarity as a public health response
This article examines solidarity as both a promise and a problem in public health discourse. Against accounts that treat solidarity as a moral feeling, civic mood or exhortation to comply, it argues that solidarity becomes ethically meaningful only when it is tethered to action, institutional obligation and distributive consequence. The article develops this claim through a medical humanities reading of two epidemic archives: HIV/AIDS activism an…
Fifty years of Contemporary French Civilization: Ongoing conversations and future directions
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ .
Fighting misogynoir on social media: Rokhaya Diallo’s battle against Pascal Bruckner on Twitter/X
Maroun proposes an investigation of how Twitter (the platform now rebranded as X) can serve as a tool of resistance to mainstream media’s power to drive narratives and influence public discourse. Through a close analysis of French Afrofeminist Rokhaya Diallo’s 21 October 2020 post (tweet) and its quote tweets in defence of her appearance on 28 minutes on ARTE, he suggests a novel way of understanding how social media users interact with mainstrea…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · North African History and Literature (3 works)