Imad Ait Oufkir
Sultan Moulay Sliman - Faculty of Letters, Gender Studies, Department Member
- Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco, English Literature and Cultural Studies, Graduate Studentadd
- Literary Criticism, Postmodernism, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, and 21 morePoststructuralism, Continental Philosophy, Art History, Social Sciences, Literature, Media Studies, Human Rights, Ethics, Languages and Linguistics, Political Philosophy, Gender, Social Psychology, Philosophy of Science, English Literature, Post-Colonial Theory, Islam and Secularism, Nietzsche, Postcolonial Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Freedom of Religion, and Liberal Arts and Social Sciencesedit
- BA in Literary Studies at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir. MA in Gender Studies at Sultan Moulay Slimane University - Fac... moreBA in Literary Studies at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir. MA in Gender Studies at Sultan Moulay Slimane University - Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Beni Mellal. Currently studies PhD. in Gender and Comparative Literary Studies at Cadi Ayyad University - Marrakech. EFL Teacher. Part-time Graphic Designer.edit
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Ultras or football fan association as a phenomenon and as a sub-culture in its get-go, has been operating for almost five decades now. And as the years had gotten underway, its influence spread quite staggeringly all around the world. Its... more
Ultras or football fan association as a phenomenon and as a sub-culture in its get-go, has been operating for almost five decades now. And as the years had gotten underway, its influence spread quite staggeringly all around the world. Its initial tenets, however, have been modified by each country according to its culture and lore. The telos of this research paper, hence, is to understand and pin down the different reasons that push for women’s exclusion from the ‘Curva’ (football terrace). The curva signifies the niche in which hegemonic masculinity is being reproduced at the expense of the female subject. It is quite different from other parts of the stands, as it gathers the spirit of the ultras with all the machismo that comes with it. This exclusion as a discursive practice serves as the motivation for this research’s raison d’être. However, the prospect of the paper does not only rely on finding the reasons behind the exclusion of women but also touches on other theoretical considerations, some of which are advanced as hypotheses in the research question section. For integrity purposes, the research wouldn’t embark on good analysis without theory, an aspect that is also taken into consideration in order to encase the issue within its social framework. The study, accordingly, is set to gather information related to the research objective, analyze it, and categorize its constituents into themes of pertinent nature. Correspondingly, the paper wishes to contribute to the discipline of gender studies with the study under conduct, as well as the conjuncture of gender and sport and sports-related spheres.
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Since its outset in its earliest forms, feminism has pigeon-holed the predicament of women as its primary concern. However, it has been castigated accordingly, for the reason that it is exclusively, concerned with women and their own... more
Since its outset in its earliest forms, feminism has pigeon-holed the predicament of women as its primary concern. However, it has been castigated accordingly, for the reason that it is exclusively, concerned with women and their own dilemma. Not only it deemed women as a priority, but also white upper-middle-class women as a prototype for their feminist discourse. Correspondingly, Betty Friedan and Simone de Beauvoir were exposed to this backlash as they saw this struggle from a middle-class prism. Using Valorie Bryson’s Introduction to Feminist Political Theory as a datum, this paper seeks to document the historical changes that feminism went through. In this, I would like to argue that the stride that feminists took to encompass the frustration of other classes, races, and genders played a pivotal role in the theorizing of gender, through resorting to a diversified, rather than an exclusive approach. This intersectionality of races, as bell hooks, would come to contend, is part and parcel of feminism as a movement that seeks to redeem the rights of all women. Second-wave feminism showed the first seeds of endorsing other possibilities, while Third-wave feminism, will break away from structural binary thinking (using the likes of; Elizabeth Grosz’s espousal of Deleuze and Guattari's concept of thousand plateaus with Thousand Tiny Sexes, Foucauldian notion of Discourse, Deleuze’s theory of Rhizome as a benchmark for their theorization).
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Diversity, Literary Criticism, Performativity, and 15 moreGilles Deleuze, Virginia Woolf, Postmodernism, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Simone de Beauvoir, Feminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies, Jacques Derrida & Deconstruction, Intersectionality, Mary Wollstonecraft, Bell Hooks, Elizabeth Grosz, Feminist Waves, Betty Friedan, and Feminist Existentialism
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The following thesis conducts a bulletin board, on the far-reaching interdisciplinarity of literature and its discernible impact on music; particularly hip- hop as a leading genre, using data from an assortment of polemical artists;... more
The following thesis conducts a bulletin board, on the far-reaching interdisciplinarity of literature and its discernible impact on music; particularly hip- hop as a leading genre, using data from an assortment of polemical artists; including high-profile rappers that—suitably contributed to the expansion of this cross- pedigreed relationship. This output also uses books of the literary-musical-related sphere such as; The Anthology of Rap, Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop and Encyclopedia of Hip Hop literature. The background’s focal point is to evince the primary leitmotif of the relationship between the two disciplines, and for the fact that both of them share several characteristics vis-à-vis poetic narrativity. Subsequently, the spotlight will be shed on the genesis of hip-hop and its initially derivational phase, arisen from literature. The premise, however, does not broadly or solely focus on the intersection of literature and music, or name-dropping of artists, but it also attempts to dissect, scrutinize and break down, per capita, literary elements used in some noteworthy works, all from a lyrical-wise standpoint including; literary and poetic devices.
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The chief objective of this project is to scrutinize and substantiate the far-reaching existence of a predicament, that Maghrebi Women—particularly, Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian, had been psychologically enduring. The output will also... more
The chief objective of this project is to scrutinize and substantiate the far-reaching existence of a predicament, that Maghrebi Women—particularly, Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian, had been psychologically enduring. The output will also localize the predicament in its historical backdrop, as well as dissecting the phases of Maghrebi Women’s dichotomized cognition and its burgeoning; vacillating between the endorsement and condemnation of ideologies; unwillingly condoning the fact of being patsies of society and its patriarchal creeds and predilections through what is known as “patriarchal bargaining”. This research will, furthermore, shed light upon these ideologies each, their influence on Maghrebi women, with respect to the outline’s order, using data from a compendium of theoretical works such as Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work, Empowering Women After the Arab Spring, North African Women after the Arab Spring in the Eye of the Storm, and Bargaining with Patriarchy. Hence, the question draws itself reaching an acme of a polemical debate, are these women truly entangled in a limbo, tottering between two directions? Which is the best course of action? does the inchoately added liberal value emancipate these women and guide them to a better state of open-mindedness and newfangled sophistication? Is it the Yellow Break Road they think it is? Or does it merely use the concept of unfettered free will as a pretext for moral attrition?
Research Interests: Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Religion, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, and 15 morePostcolonial Studies, Hybridity, Gender and Sexuality, Performativity, Postcolonial Feminism, Maghreb studies, Feminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies, Performativity of Gender, Feminism and Social Justice, Cultural hybridity, Patriarchy, Dialectics, Patriarchal Society, Arab Spring, and North African literature
In its attempt to understand and dissect the dynamics by which gender and leadership interpolate with each other within the perimeters of organizations, the textbook Leadership, Gender and Organization by Patricia H. Werhane and Mollie... more
In its attempt to understand and dissect the dynamics by which gender and leadership interpolate with each other within the perimeters of organizations, the textbook Leadership, Gender and Organization by Patricia H. Werhane and Mollie Painter-Morland serves as a key guide to studying the intricacies of women in work, organizations, networks and other platforms in which leadership and gender can be put under the microscope of analysis.
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Mariama Ba is a Senegalese feminist writer and novelist, born in Dakar to Muslim upbringing. She had a tough childhood as a woman in a poor entourage. Her sex was viewed as a hindrance, since women in Senegal were relegated to a... more
Mariama Ba is a Senegalese feminist writer and novelist, born in Dakar to Muslim upbringing. She had a tough childhood as a woman in a poor entourage. Her sex was viewed as a hindrance, since women in Senegal were relegated to a subsidiary status in comparison to men in social and economic pedestals, and were stripped off from basic privileges as opposed to men. The reason she was expected not to be educated is the traditional upbringing she had by her grandparents. Their devotion to traditions convinced them that women are not to be taught, lest -as the myth says-, they become troublesome. These frustrations propelled her career to embark on activism and, most importantly, to jumpstart a writing career. Her first ever novel So Long a Letter, chronicles these ordeals she endured alongside the overall status of African women alike.
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This paper aims at depicting the historical ordeals, that African-American women went through, and the interpolation of these hardships; slavery, apartheid, racial slurs, and other forms of racial exclusion, into a fiction of their own.... more
This paper aims at depicting the historical ordeals, that African-American women went through, and the interpolation of these hardships; slavery, apartheid, racial slurs, and other forms of racial exclusion, into a fiction of their own. In it, data will be extracted from Ana Nunes’s African American Women Writers’ Historical Fiction. In its outset with Gunnar Myrdal, this output will, furthermore, mention one of the earliest realizations of black history with his work An American Dilemma, and its advent to White Americans’ lives. Afterwards, it will conduct an account on the ways in which these women [African-American Women] came to grips with the relationship between history and literature, in their rewriting of slavery and the historical apartheids of their kinfolks. An embodiment of this would be illustrated by the work of Margaret Walker’s Jubilee, alongside its pivotal emphasis on orality, oral testimonies or/and oral culture/history. In similar fashion, following the model of Margaret Walker’s Jubilee which came to be deemed as a tour de force for African American historical novel, Jones’s Corregidora will also be part of both an account of the historical impacts, and an analysis of Jones’s reliance on folk speech and oral word. Therefore, the limelight will be shed on two main works, Jubilee and Corregidora as they both sought to adroitly represent slavery and the fringe side of the African American experience from their own vantage point, in an attempt to demystify and debunk the prevailed versions of the white hegemonies. And also, because these two works attempt to revise the history and record a neo-slave narrative with experienced and quasi-experienced events, relying highly on folk and oral history to bring an authentic version of their own.