Shahla Talebi
Biographic Data
| ID | 107372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shahla Talebi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shahla |
| FAMILY NAME | Talebi |
| SIGNATURE | TALEBI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6711-0931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Virtual reality-based digitisation for endangered heritage sites: Theoretical framework and application
Ethnography of Witnessing and Ethnography as Witnessing: Topographies of Two Court Hearings
In this article, I attend to two forms of hearings (or nonhearings) in two distinctive courts of law, both involving the persecution of Iranian dissidents in the 1980s. Drawing on my ethnographic and archival research, inside and outside of Iran, I ponder the conditions of possibility of confessions/testimonies and their affects and after-lives. The first case involves the Islamic Republic's televised trials of a group of leftist prisoners. The s…
Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding…
An Iranian Martyr’s Dilemma
Talebi’s essay emerges at the intersection of the state’s appropriation of martyrdom and the subject’s ethos and act of self-sacrifice, which exceed and transform that appropriation. Through a close reading of two letters sent from the front during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88), it contemplates the complex desire of its authors to be simultaneously engaged political subjects and martyrs. The analysis attempts to illuminate the dynamic relationship …
From the Light of the Eyes to the Eyes of the Power: State and Dissident Martyrs in Post-Revolutionary Iran
In 2006 the courtyard of Sanati Sharif University in Tehran became a battleground over the geographies of life and death. The conflict transpired between students who protested the burying of state martyrs on campus, while the state and its supporters carried out the act regardless of the protest. In analyzing this act this essay traces the genealogy of the transforming geographies of life and death in modern Iran. It strives to demonstrate how t…
Who is Behind the Name
This paper journeys along the theoretical and historical trajectories of the early stage of post-revolutionary Iran, marked by an external war with Iraq and internal political suppression. Specifically, it grapples with the intricacies of loss, mourning, and survival in the meanders of the life of a woman, a former leftist political prisoner, named Mahtab. Striving to unravel the pathos and aporias of Mahtab’s life, this paper ponders the limits …
Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
Shahla Talebi's "Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran" offers a poignant exploration of the lasting psychological and emotional impact of political imprisonment in post-revolutionary Iran. Through intimate narratives and in-depth interviews with former political prisoners, Talebi reveals the complex ways in which trauma manifests in their lives long after their release. The book delves into the enduring presence of "gh…
Who is Behind the Name? A Story of Violence, Loss, and Melancholic Survival in Post-Revolutionary Iran
This paper journeys along the theoretical and historical trajectories of the early stage of post-revolutionary Iran, marked by an external war with Iraq and internal political suppression. Specifically, it grapples with the intricacies of loss, mourning, and survival in the meanders of the life of a woman, a former leftist political prisoner, named Mahtab. Striving to unravel the pathos and aporias of Mahtab’s life, this paper ponders the limits …
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
Shahla Talebi's "Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran" offers a poignant exploration of the lasting psychological and emotional impact of political imprisonment in post-revolutionary Iran. Through intimate narratives and in-depth interviews with former political prisoners, Talebi reveals the complex ways in which trauma manifests in their lives long after their release. The book delves into the enduring presence of "gh…
Ethnography of Witnessing and Ethnography as Witnessing: Topographies of Two Court Hearings
In this article, I attend to two forms of hearings (or nonhearings) in two distinctive courts of law, both involving the persecution of Iranian dissidents in the 1980s. Drawing on my ethnographic and archival research, inside and outside of Iran, I ponder the conditions of possibility of confessions/testimonies and their affects and after-lives. The first case involves the Islamic Republic's televised trials of a group of leftist prisoners. The s…
From the Light of the Eyes to the Eyes of the Power: State and Dissident Martyrs in Post-Revolutionary Iran
In 2006 the courtyard of Sanati Sharif University in Tehran became a battleground over the geographies of life and death. The conflict transpired between students who protested the burying of state martyrs on campus, while the state and its supporters carried out the act regardless of the protest. In analyzing this act this essay traces the genealogy of the transforming geographies of life and death in modern Iran. It strives to demonstrate how t…
Virtual reality-based digitisation for endangered heritage sites: Theoretical framework and application
Who is Behind the Name
This paper journeys along the theoretical and historical trajectories of the early stage of post-revolutionary Iran, marked by an external war with Iraq and internal political suppression. Specifically, it grapples with the intricacies of loss, mourning, and survival in the meanders of the life of a woman, a former leftist political prisoner, named Mahtab. Striving to unravel the pathos and aporias of Mahtab’s life, this paper ponders the limits …
An Iranian Martyr’s Dilemma
Talebi’s essay emerges at the intersection of the state’s appropriation of martyrdom and the subject’s ethos and act of self-sacrifice, which exceed and transform that appropriation. Through a close reading of two letters sent from the front during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88), it contemplates the complex desire of its authors to be simultaneously engaged political subjects and martyrs. The analysis attempts to illuminate the dynamic relationship …
Who is Behind the Name? A Story of Violence, Loss, and Melancholic Survival in Post-Revolutionary Iran
This paper journeys along the theoretical and historical trajectories of the early stage of post-revolutionary Iran, marked by an external war with Iraq and internal political suppression. Specifically, it grapples with the intricacies of loss, mourning, and survival in the meanders of the life of a woman, a former leftist political prisoner, named Mahtab. Striving to unravel the pathos and aporias of Mahtab’s life, this paper ponders the limits …
Who is Behind the Name
This paper journeys along the theoretical and historical trajectories of the early stage of post-revolutionary Iran, marked by an external war with Iraq and internal political suppression. Specifically, it grapples with the intricacies of loss, mourning, and survival in the meanders of the life of a woman, a former leftist political prisoner, named Mahtab. Striving to unravel the pathos and aporias of Mahtab’s life, this paper ponders the limits …
Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
Shahla Talebi's "Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran" offers a poignant exploration of the lasting psychological and emotional impact of political imprisonment in post-revolutionary Iran. Through intimate narratives and in-depth interviews with former political prisoners, Talebi reveals the complex ways in which trauma manifests in their lives long after their release. The book delves into the enduring presence of "gh…
From the Light of the Eyes to the Eyes of the Power: State and Dissident Martyrs in Post-Revolutionary Iran
In 2006 the courtyard of Sanati Sharif University in Tehran became a battleground over the geographies of life and death. The conflict transpired between students who protested the burying of state martyrs on campus, while the state and its supporters carried out the act regardless of the protest. In analyzing this act this essay traces the genealogy of the transforming geographies of life and death in modern Iran. It strives to demonstrate how t…
An Iranian Martyr’s Dilemma
Talebi’s essay emerges at the intersection of the state’s appropriation of martyrdom and the subject’s ethos and act of self-sacrifice, which exceed and transform that appropriation. Through a close reading of two letters sent from the front during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88), it contemplates the complex desire of its authors to be simultaneously engaged political subjects and martyrs. The analysis attempts to illuminate the dynamic relationship …
Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding…
Ethnography of Witnessing and Ethnography as Witnessing: Topographies of Two Court Hearings
In this article, I attend to two forms of hearings (or nonhearings) in two distinctive courts of law, both involving the persecution of Iranian dissidents in the 1980s. Drawing on my ethnographic and archival research, inside and outside of Iran, I ponder the conditions of possibility of confessions/testimonies and their affects and after-lives. The first case involves the Islamic Republic's televised trials of a group of leftist prisoners. The s…
Beyond the Human Horizon
Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …
Virtual reality-based digitisation for endangered heritage sites: Theoretical framework and application
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