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The Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan

The Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/17/3/449/1169817/449abedinifard.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 REVIEW Sima Shakhsari Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020 xxiii + 284 pages. ISBN 9781478006657 Reviewed by MOSTAFA ABEDINIFARD An original contribution to the cultural anthropology of the Iranian cyberspace, Sima Shakhsari’s book is a chilling scholarly account of the dark sides of the major Iranian blo- gosphere, the Weblogistan, often celebrated as a conduit of liberal democracy, as observed during the first decades of the twentieth century. Taking its primary theoretical force from, yet also extending, Michel Foucault’s and Achille Mbembe’s notions of biopolitics and necropolitics, The Politics of Rightful Killing analyzes Weblogistan—that is, the Ira- nian blogosphere “figured [by many bloggers] as a microcosm of the Iranian civil society with aspirations for a democratic future” (xxiii)—“to explore the role of militarism, ‘democ- ratization,’ and neoliberal governmentality in the Iranian cyberspace” (23). In examining Weblogistan as a site of civil society and its representations of “the people of Iran,” Shakhsari deems both biopolitics and necropolitics insufficient, as they fail to “explain the work of death in relation to populations that are not stripped of rights in the state of exception but whose deaths are sanctioned, rather, in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Duke University Press

The Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan

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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/17/3/449/1169817/449abedinifard.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 REVIEW Sima Shakhsari Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020 xxiii + 284 pages. ISBN 9781478006657 Reviewed by MOSTAFA ABEDINIFARD An original contribution to the cultural anthropology of the Iranian cyberspace, Sima Shakhsari’s book is a chilling scholarly account of the dark sides of the major Iranian blo- gosphere, the Weblogistan, often celebrated as a conduit of liberal democracy, as observed during the first decades of the twentieth century. Taking its primary theoretical force from, yet also extending, Michel Foucault’s and Achille Mbembe’s notions of biopolitics and necropolitics, The Politics of Rightful Killing analyzes Weblogistan—that is, the Ira- nian blogosphere “figured [by many bloggers] as a microcosm of the Iranian civil society with aspirations for a democratic future” (xxiii)—“to explore the role of militarism, ‘democ- ratization,’ and neoliberal governmentality in the Iranian cyberspace” (23). In examining Weblogistan as a site of civil society and its representations of “the people of Iran,” Shakhsari deems both biopolitics and necropolitics insufficient, as they fail to “explain the work of death in relation to populations that are not stripped of rights in the state of exception but whose deaths are sanctioned, rather, in

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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies – Duke University Press

Published: Nov 1, 2021

References

  • Iran’s ‘Self-Deprecating Modernity’: Toward Decolonizing Collective Self-Critique
    Abedinifard, Mostafa
  • Iran’s ‘Self-Deprecating Modernity’: Toward Decolonizing Collective Self-Critique
    Abedinifard, Mostafa