This article is an autoethnographic reflection on the complexities of transnational power relatio... more This article is an autoethnographic reflection on the complexities of transnational power relations involved in knowledge production on migration. It is based on the author's experiences in German academia between 2015 and 2022 as a first-generation migrant from the Middle East.
This contribution addresses the strategic significance of family politics for the Islamic Republi... more This contribution addresses the strategic significance of family politics for the Islamic Republic of Iran, facing multifaceted crises. It identifies Iran’s recent family and gender policies, which are characterised by the fusion of neoliberal principles with moral politics and can be found in other authoritarian neoliberal regimes. Drawing on a historical analysis of familialism in Iran, spanning pre- and post-revolutionary periods, we contend that the recent shift towards a gendered-moral politics emphasising harsh pronatalism and family-oriented governance, termed ‘neoliberal familialism’, reflects a profound shift in the political rationality of the Islamic Republic towards neoliberal governance to manage its socio-economic crises. In other words, not only have neoliberal principles affected the family politics of the last decade in Iran, but a specific form of masculine nationalist neoliberalisation in Iran has also been possible and advanced partly through neoliberal familialism.
This study is an attempt to understand how Islamists, especially a significant part of the Shi’a ... more This study is an attempt to understand how Islamists, especially a significant part of the Shi’a clergy, become the dominant political force in Iran in the 1970s, which was a decade of state transformation. Employing a conceptual toolbox and methods of investigation based on the Strategic-Relational Approach and Cultural Political Economy, this study introduces fresh perspectives, concerns, and concepts to reconstruct the key features of the complex revolutionary moment in 1979 and provide a periodisation of state (trans-)formations in Iran. It identifies two main periods: national state building (1848-1970) and expansion (1970-). By exploring the recontexualization and changing articulation of three discursive formations and taking note of different temporalities, this study identifies a ‘holy triad’ (justice, progress and independence) that sheds light on the development of the national state in Iran. I argue that justice is the master frame for conceptualising the changing signif...
s of Panels NINTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF IRANIAN STUDIES (ECIS 9) Berlin, 9–13 September 2019 Ins... more s of Panels NINTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF IRANIAN STUDIES (ECIS 9) Berlin, 9–13 September 2019 Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
This article is an autoethnographic reflection on the complexities of transnational power relatio... more This article is an autoethnographic reflection on the complexities of transnational power relations involved in knowledge production on migration. It is based on the author's experiences in German academia between 2015 and 2022 as a first-generation migrant from the Middle East.
This contribution addresses the strategic significance of family politics for the Islamic Republi... more This contribution addresses the strategic significance of family politics for the Islamic Republic of Iran, facing multifaceted crises. It identifies Iran’s recent family and gender policies, which are characterised by the fusion of neoliberal principles with moral politics and can be found in other authoritarian neoliberal regimes. Drawing on a historical analysis of familialism in Iran, spanning pre- and post-revolutionary periods, we contend that the recent shift towards a gendered-moral politics emphasising harsh pronatalism and family-oriented governance, termed ‘neoliberal familialism’, reflects a profound shift in the political rationality of the Islamic Republic towards neoliberal governance to manage its socio-economic crises. In other words, not only have neoliberal principles affected the family politics of the last decade in Iran, but a specific form of masculine nationalist neoliberalisation in Iran has also been possible and advanced partly through neoliberal familialism.
This study is an attempt to understand how Islamists, especially a significant part of the Shi’a ... more This study is an attempt to understand how Islamists, especially a significant part of the Shi’a clergy, become the dominant political force in Iran in the 1970s, which was a decade of state transformation. Employing a conceptual toolbox and methods of investigation based on the Strategic-Relational Approach and Cultural Political Economy, this study introduces fresh perspectives, concerns, and concepts to reconstruct the key features of the complex revolutionary moment in 1979 and provide a periodisation of state (trans-)formations in Iran. It identifies two main periods: national state building (1848-1970) and expansion (1970-). By exploring the recontexualization and changing articulation of three discursive formations and taking note of different temporalities, this study identifies a ‘holy triad’ (justice, progress and independence) that sheds light on the development of the national state in Iran. I argue that justice is the master frame for conceptualising the changing signif...
s of Panels NINTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF IRANIAN STUDIES (ECIS 9) Berlin, 9–13 September 2019 Ins... more s of Panels NINTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF IRANIAN STUDIES (ECIS 9) Berlin, 9–13 September 2019 Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
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