Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan
17 March 2021, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
A seminar from the TAKHAYYUL Project
This event is free.
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Institute for Global Prosperity
Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan, is an online and offline ethnographic account of the Iranian blogosphere in the first decade of the new millennium. The book traces the ways in which Weblogistan, as a part of the transnational Iranian civil society, became a site of cybergovernmentality, wherein the desire for democratic futurity relied on heteronormative digital citizenship. Notwithstanding the aspirations for exceptional citizenship through practices of democracy online, however, the possibility of exceptional citizenship was foreclosed for the willing Iranian blogger subjects/entrepreneurs, as they belong to a population that is subjected to the politics of rightful killing.
Sima Shakhsari is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexualities Studies at the University of Minnesota. They are the author of several articles and a book titled Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan (Duke University Press, 2020)
Zoom link: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/99880721630 / Meeting ID: 998 8072 1630