Abstract

MEDINA, Arely  and  SEPEDA, María José. Islamic feminism on the web 2.0: the case of blogistan. PAAKAT: rev. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2019, vol.9, n.17.  Epub Dec 10, 2019. ISSN 2007-3607.  https://doi.org/10.32870/pk.a9n17.457.

The present article shows the results that are part of Islamic Feminism in Iran project that was developed within the Delfin Program in the summer of 2017, from which theoretical and methodological discussion between internet and islam were generated (Medina, 2019), and the empirical observation (Sepeda, 2018). The present paper brings the reader closer to the feminist proposals that have been elaborated through Islamic theology and practice, which is called Islamic feminism. Here we approach this movement of thought and praxis from the Iranian case that was generated in the mid-twentieth century in response to the political regime of Muhammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979), as well as the new regime of Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini who managed to configure and expand as a web 2.0 movement, that is, on the internet, which is called blogistan because it was mainly spread through blogs. The term blogistan is exposed as part of the dynamics of the virtual umma of the internet (Roy, 2003), and the feminist discourse and its impact outside of Iran is analyzed from the virtual ethnography. The blogistan case is observed as a praxis and resistance space that escapes the Iranian political authorities and that in the space of the flows (Castells, 2011) can mobilize, adhere or reconfigure other proposals.

Keywords : Islam; internet; blogs; woman; religion.

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