La banalité d’un média

Le mouvement iranien « Femme, Vie, Liberté » vu par les médias sociaux

Auteurs-es

  • Sara Naderi Kwantlen Polytechnic University; University of Victoria

Mots-clés :

contre-hégémonie, hégémonie, hyperréalité, femmes iraniennes, médias sociaux, discours sur le port du voile, Mouvement Femme, Vie, Liberté

Résumé

La mort tragique de Zhina (Mahsa) Amini survenue en septembre 2022 a déclenché le plus grand mouvement national en Iran depuis 2009. Les Iraniennes sont devenues les leaders symboliques et pratiques de ce mouvement, dont le slogan kurde qui signifie « Femme, Vie, Liberté » est devenu la devise. Cet article présente une réflexion théorique et exploratoire sur le mouvement « Femme, Vie, Liberté », centrée sur la façon dont les médias sociaux, comme média, ont façonné ses représentations dominantes et sa trajectoire. Après une brève analyse généalogique des discours qui mettent le voile des femmes au cœur de la politique nationale iranienne, l’article détermine comment la nature hyperréaliste de la réalité moderne influe sur les mouvements sociaux. Il soutient que les médias sociaux amplifient la visibilité des « sujets politiques hyperréels », faisant d’eux des acteurs dominants du mouvement. Cette transformation de la subjectivité politique s’est traduite par une limitation structurelle des médias sociaux, qui touche non seulement à la représentation, mais aussi à la « présence » des actions politiques. Enfin, l’article montre comment les médias sociaux contribuent à des stratégies politiques révolutionnaires et polarisées, et permettent le démantèlement des hégémonies dominantes tout en décourageant l’imagination politique radicale et progressiste dans l’élaboration de discours contre-hégémoniques.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

  • Sara Naderi, Kwantlen Polytechnic University; University of Victoria

    Sara Naderi is a faculty member in the department of sociology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and a sessional lecturer in the department of Gender Studies at the University of Victoria. Sara is interested in uncovering the mutual relations between colonization of knowledge productions about those who live on the margins of the modern world and their self-images, political actions, and political imaginations. Her area of interest includes sociology of knowledge, critical media studies, gender and women studies, and post-colonial theories. 

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Publié

2025-03-19

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Vol. 46 No. 1 (2025): Ruptures, Resistance, Reclamation: Transnational Feminism in a Digital Age

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