Weblogistan Goes to War
Representational Practices, Gendered Soldiers and Neoliberal Entrepreneurship in Diaspora
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3201994 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sima Shakhsari (University of Houston, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-24 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/fr.2011.35 |
| OpenAlex | W1974204044 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 29 |
In this article, which is based on twenty four months of combined online and off-line ethnographic research, I show the way that some Iranian diasporic bloggers use their weblogs as entrepreneurship resources during the 'war on terror'. Through a discourse analysis of a documentary film about Weblogistan and interviews with diasporic Iranian bloggers in Toronto, I argue that Weblogistan is implicated in discourses of militarism and neoliberalism that interpellate the representable Iranian blogger as a gendered neoliberal homo oeconomicus. The production of knowledge about Iran in transnational encounters between the media, think tanks, policy institutions and the Iranian diasporic self-entrepreneurs, relies on gendered civilizational discourses that are inherently tied to the 'war on terror'. Following feminist scholars who have theorized militarism and gender, I argue that dominant representations of Weblogistan produce different gendered subject positions for Iranian bloggers. Although the masculine blogger soldier takes freedom to Iran through his active participation in proper politics (enabled by his freedom of speech in North America and Europe), the woman blogger finds freedom of expression in writing about sex and telling the truth of her sex in a confessional mode. It is in this war of representation that women bloggers negotiate their subjectivity while shuttling in and out of local and global politics, as subjects of politics (markers of freedom and oppression) and political abjects (not worthy of political participation
Culturalism · Diaspora · Masculinity · Militarism · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Media and Politics
Multi-scale methods for reconstructing collective shapes of digital diasporas
Duffs and Puffs
Online Performance of Civic Participation
From Homoerotics of Exile to Homopolitics of Diaspora
Digital Feminism beyond Nativism and Empire
Classy Kids and Down-at-Heel Intellectuals
At Once the Saviours and the Saved
Technologies of Liberation and/or Otherwise
Diaspora, Digital Media, and Death Counts
Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism (The International Library of Studies on Migration, 9)
Women and the political process in twentieth-century Iran
Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Historiography of Modern Iran
Regulating Aversion
Women and War in the Middle East
Transnational America
Looking White People in the Eye
Reordering Public and Private in Iranian Cyberspace
Bananas, Beaches and Bases
Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy
Cyberethnography as home-work
The Politics of/in Blogging in Iran
Being Modern in Iran
Bananas, beaches and bases
Imagined communities
Multiculturalism Now
Migration, Diasporas, and Transnationalism
Discursive and Political Deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers/Martyrs
Universalization of particulars
Transnational Feminist Practices Against War
Governing the Soul - a Quarter of a Century On
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Eritrea on-line
The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging
The Biopolitics of Technoculture in the Mumbai Attacks
Government, authority and expertise in advanced liberalism
Spatializing States
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |