Ahmad Mohammadpour
Biographic Data
| ID | 115108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahmad Mohammadpour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahmad |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohammadpour |
| SIGNATURE | MOHAMMADPOUR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bentley University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7768-4653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Narrating Salafism: Sunni Marginalization and Authoritarian Religious Governance in Iranian Kurdistan
Salafism is an orthodox movement associated with political Islam that defines itself mainly through the negation of opposing ideologies and practices. Although a minority, Salafist movements have gained traction across parts of the Islamic world. This article examines an emerging branch of Salafism in Iranian Kurdistan (Known as Rojhelat). It employs narrative analysis to examine Sunni Kurds in Iran, with participants selected through purposive a…
The South Against Itself: Iranian Sociology, Non-Persian Ontologies, and the Global South’s Inner Coloniality
Culture of free-riding and ethical decision-making: A case study
This study explores how the culture of free-riding, which can be either shrewdness or wiliness, influences the ethical decision-making of actors in different situations and how intelligence mediates this relationship. The current study encompasses the entire male and female population residing in Tehran, specifically across 22 regions. From this population, a sample of 384 individuals was selected using Morgan’s table and cluster sampling method,…
Dispossessed geographies: Statelessness and eco-resistance in Rojhelat
Nishtiman” Is Her Name
Reclaiming Histories: Debunking Aryanism's Myth in the Middle East and South Asia
This article charts the enduring life of the ‘Aryan’ concept from its 19th‐century philological origins to its contemporary political, cultural and national manifestations. Born out of William Jones's linguistic comparisons and entangled with biblical stories, Aryanism evolved into a racialized ideology, underpinning European Romantic nationalism, scientific racism, and colonial interpretations of South Asian history. Aryan myth proved most resil…
Religion Meets Gender: The Impact of Sunni Islamic Discourse on the Jina Uprising in Eastern Kurdistan
The Jina uprising, ignited by the state-sanctioned killing of Jina (Mahsa) Amini in September 2022, marked a historic convergence of gender, ethnic, and religious resistance in Iran, particularly in Eastern Kurdistan (also known as Rojhelat or Iranian Kurdistan). Although the movement was initially framed as a feminist revolution, Sunni Muslim clerics and leaders played a pivotal role in shaping its trajectory. This article examines how religious…
Geographies of Exclusion: Mapping the Political Economy of Minoritized Nations in Iran
This article analyzes the socioeconomic factors influencing levels of economic well-being across Iran’s provinces, focusing on the impact of minority status, using data spanning 2015–2019. We employed a two-phased approach: first, we calculated welfare indices for each province and then assessed how minority status intersects with various socio-economic determinants to influence these indices. Findings reveal that minority groups, particularly th…
Nationalizing the religion: Sufism in the ‘Persianate World
Weeping without tears: Kurdish female kolbers and gendered necropolitics of state in Iran
This article disentangles the nexus between coloniality, territoriality, and gendered necropolitics of state in Iran and how it shapes the lives of the Kurdish female cross‐border laborers (kolbers, in Kurdish) in Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat, in Kurdish). Drawing on Achille Mbembe's notion of “necropolitics,” we conceptualize kolberi as a work of death that subjects Kurds to indiscriminate and collective punishment through necro‐disciplinary meas…
The Invention of Iran: From ‘Iranianness’ to ‘Persianness
The intellectual 'invention of Iran' is a potent image that owes its birth to the Orientalist practice of archaeology and historiography from the mid-19th to the latter 20th century: an intellectual enterprise that originated from the myth of Aryan race theory, the hypothesis of Aryan migration to the Indian subcontinent, and the subsequent positioning of Persian ethnie to be the sole author of Iran's 'glorious national past'. This Eurocentric na…
Persian orientalism: Raciolinguistic ideologies and the construction of ‘Iranianness
This article excavates the Eurocentric roots of Iranian nationalist discourse, which emerged from the political and intellectual trajectories of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Premised on the epistemic privilege of the Persian language, a selective remembrance of the past, and forging an internal Other, I contend that this raciolinguistic ideology equated Persianness with Iranianness and naturalised Persian as both a language and a race.…
Decolonizing Voices From Rojhelat: Gender-Othering, Ethnic Erasure, and the Politics of Intersectionality in Iran
The state murder of Jîna Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in Tehran on 16 September 2022, while in custody of the Islamic Republic's morality police, prompted a widespread uprising across Iran unprecedented in scale since the popular 1979 revolution. Adopting the Kurdish catchphrase 'Jin, Jîyan, Azadî' (Woman, Life, Freedom), this movement was largely centered in Kurdistan (known as Rojhelat) and Balochistan, two ethnically minoritized and econ…
Blood for bread: Necro-labor, nonsovereign bodies, and the state of exception in Rojhelat
As members of a stateless nation that is geopolitically divided across Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, Kurds are known mainly in the West as excellent fighters and political revolutionaries. Amid the devastation of war and political unrest, most Kurds struggle for economic survival. This is especially true for Eastern Kurds living under Iranian rule. They have seen their lands confiscated, their resources plundered, and their access to capital and…
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East: A Comparative Study of Palestine and Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan)
This paper examines the relationship of sovereignty with development and national identity in the violently hierarchized multinational, multireligious, and multilingual Iran. Drawing on the scholarship on Palestine studies and particularly Sara Roy’s theory of “de-development,” in this paper, we study how the sovereign ethnonation in Iran instrumentalizes and distorts development to subjugate the minoritized Kurdish nation. Along with contextuali…
The everydayness of spectacle violence under the Islamic Republic: ‘Fire at will’
On 17 June 2017, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, called on pro-regime vigilantes to ‘fire at will’ or to act on their own discretion in putting the state’s Islamic teaching into practice without the need to consult either their superiors or the relevant authorities. Our article argues that, since 1979, the policy of ‘firing at will’ has been the defining feature of the Islamic Republic’s model of governance and c…
Sovereignty and Developmental Policies in Palestine and Eastern Kurdistan
Inspired by the scholarship on Palestine studies and particularly by Sara Roy’s “de-development” theory, this paper investigates how the sovereign ethno-nation in Iran instrumentalizes and distorts development to subjugate the minoritized Kurdish nation. Along with contextualizing de-development theory within the broader discipline of developmental studies and outlining how de-development works in practice, we compare the political-economic condi…
Silencing the Past: Persian Archaeology, Race, Ethnicity, and Language
This paper investigates the ways in which the nationalist narrative of the statist archaeology in Iran has contributed to the dominant nationalist discourse in systematic attempts to erase any evidence of the existence of a "non-Aryan" past in the Iranian plateau. Sponsored by the state, ethnoracial archaeological studies in Iran have functioned as a powerful instrument for constructing a desired past, one that is informed by Persianist primordia…
Minoritisation' of the other: The Iranian ethno-theocratic state's assimilatory strategies
Since the establishment of the modern nation-state in Iran in the early twentieth century, the state has viewed Kurds and their political struggle for survival as an existential threat to its integrity. The Islamic Republic’s coming to power – after the 1979 Revolution – gravely intensified the state’s securitisation policies in the Eastern Kurdistan (also known as Rojhelat). This article, thus, investigates the Islamic Republic’s anti-Kurdish st…
The securitisation of life: Eastern Kurdistan under the rule of a Perso-Shi'i state
Since the 1979 Revolution, the Iranian state has adopted a sophisticated set of policies to assimilate the Eastern Kurds. The Kurds are often the main target of the Iranian state’s military operations, its assimilatory strategies, and its regime of surveillance. After the ‘conquest’ (fath) of Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat) in 1979, the state tried to retain control over the region through systemic militarisation, the establishment of ‘revolutionary…
Life and labor on the internal colonial edge: Political economy of kolberi in Rojhelat
Through the investigation of kolberi (cross-border labor), this paper sheds light on the state's policy of de-development (or internal colonialization) of the Kurdish region (known as Rojhelat) in Iran. While the most dangerous form of labor, kolberi has become a dominant employment opportunity for Rojhelat Kurds in the last decade. There are no Iranian state laws criminalizing kolberi, and yet those laborers die on a regular basis-being shot or …
Can non-Persians speak? The sovereign’s narration of “Iranian identity
Since the late 19th century, despite multi-cultural and multilingual composition of Iranian population, Persian nationalism has functioned as the ideology of the state. Persian intelligentsia have formulated a set of historical and cultural referents that enabled them to present the Persian language and identity as primordial and all-inclusive of all Iranians. By the advent of the modern nation-state, during Pahlavi dynasty, the non-Persian ident…
Interrogating the tribal: The aporia of 'tribalism' in the sociological study of the Middle East
In this paper, we intend to deconstruct the term 'tribalism' as a colonial category, which figures as a prominent concept in social studies on Kurds as well as the Middle East at large. Blithely used, tribalism has occupied a central place, especially in the existing scholarship on Kurdistan. Some earlier anthropological works have gone so far as to regard tribalism as the 'DNA' of Middle Eastern people. Drawing on recent studies on Latin America…
Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade; A Graphic History
(2018). Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade; A Graphic History, by Rafe Blaufarb and Liz Clarke. African Historical Review: Vol. 50, “Bantustan States”, pp. 178-180
Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring
Can non-Persians speak? The sovereign’s narration of “Iranian identity
Since the late 19th century, despite multi-cultural and multilingual composition of Iranian population, Persian nationalism has functioned as the ideology of the state. Persian intelligentsia have formulated a set of historical and cultural referents that enabled them to present the Persian language and identity as primordial and all-inclusive of all Iranians. By the advent of the modern nation-state, during Pahlavi dynasty, the non-Persian ident…
Life and labor on the internal colonial edge: Political economy of kolberi in Rojhelat
Through the investigation of kolberi (cross-border labor), this paper sheds light on the state's policy of de-development (or internal colonialization) of the Kurdish region (known as Rojhelat) in Iran. While the most dangerous form of labor, kolberi has become a dominant employment opportunity for Rojhelat Kurds in the last decade. There are no Iranian state laws criminalizing kolberi, and yet those laborers die on a regular basis-being shot or …
Interrogating the tribal: The aporia of 'tribalism' in the sociological study of the Middle East
In this paper, we intend to deconstruct the term 'tribalism' as a colonial category, which figures as a prominent concept in social studies on Kurds as well as the Middle East at large. Blithely used, tribalism has occupied a central place, especially in the existing scholarship on Kurdistan. Some earlier anthropological works have gone so far as to regard tribalism as the 'DNA' of Middle Eastern people. Drawing on recent studies on Latin America…
Silencing the Past: Persian Archaeology, Race, Ethnicity, and Language
This paper investigates the ways in which the nationalist narrative of the statist archaeology in Iran has contributed to the dominant nationalist discourse in systematic attempts to erase any evidence of the existence of a "non-Aryan" past in the Iranian plateau. Sponsored by the state, ethnoracial archaeological studies in Iran have functioned as a powerful instrument for constructing a desired past, one that is informed by Persianist primordia…
The securitisation of life: Eastern Kurdistan under the rule of a Perso-Shi'i state
Since the 1979 Revolution, the Iranian state has adopted a sophisticated set of policies to assimilate the Eastern Kurds. The Kurds are often the main target of the Iranian state’s military operations, its assimilatory strategies, and its regime of surveillance. After the ‘conquest’ (fath) of Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat) in 1979, the state tried to retain control over the region through systemic militarisation, the establishment of ‘revolutionary…
Blood for bread: Necro-labor, nonsovereign bodies, and the state of exception in Rojhelat
As members of a stateless nation that is geopolitically divided across Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, Kurds are known mainly in the West as excellent fighters and political revolutionaries. Amid the devastation of war and political unrest, most Kurds struggle for economic survival. This is especially true for Eastern Kurds living under Iranian rule. They have seen their lands confiscated, their resources plundered, and their access to capital and…
Persian orientalism: Raciolinguistic ideologies and the construction of ‘Iranianness
This article excavates the Eurocentric roots of Iranian nationalist discourse, which emerged from the political and intellectual trajectories of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Premised on the epistemic privilege of the Persian language, a selective remembrance of the past, and forging an internal Other, I contend that this raciolinguistic ideology equated Persianness with Iranianness and naturalised Persian as both a language and a race.…
The Invention of Iran: From ‘Iranianness’ to ‘Persianness
The intellectual 'invention of Iran' is a potent image that owes its birth to the Orientalist practice of archaeology and historiography from the mid-19th to the latter 20th century: an intellectual enterprise that originated from the myth of Aryan race theory, the hypothesis of Aryan migration to the Indian subcontinent, and the subsequent positioning of Persian ethnie to be the sole author of Iran's 'glorious national past'. This Eurocentric na…
Decolonizing Voices From Rojhelat: Gender-Othering, Ethnic Erasure, and the Politics of Intersectionality in Iran
The state murder of Jîna Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in Tehran on 16 September 2022, while in custody of the Islamic Republic's morality police, prompted a widespread uprising across Iran unprecedented in scale since the popular 1979 revolution. Adopting the Kurdish catchphrase 'Jin, Jîyan, Azadî' (Woman, Life, Freedom), this movement was largely centered in Kurdistan (known as Rojhelat) and Balochistan, two ethnically minoritized and econ…
Minoritisation' of the other: The Iranian ethno-theocratic state's assimilatory strategies
Since the establishment of the modern nation-state in Iran in the early twentieth century, the state has viewed Kurds and their political struggle for survival as an existential threat to its integrity. The Islamic Republic’s coming to power – after the 1979 Revolution – gravely intensified the state’s securitisation policies in the Eastern Kurdistan (also known as Rojhelat). This article, thus, investigates the Islamic Republic’s anti-Kurdish st…
The everydayness of spectacle violence under the Islamic Republic: ‘Fire at will’
On 17 June 2017, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, called on pro-regime vigilantes to ‘fire at will’ or to act on their own discretion in putting the state’s Islamic teaching into practice without the need to consult either their superiors or the relevant authorities. Our article argues that, since 1979, the policy of ‘firing at will’ has been the defining feature of the Islamic Republic’s model of governance and c…
Sovereignty and Developmental Policies in Palestine and Eastern Kurdistan
Inspired by the scholarship on Palestine studies and particularly by Sara Roy’s “de-development” theory, this paper investigates how the sovereign ethno-nation in Iran instrumentalizes and distorts development to subjugate the minoritized Kurdish nation. Along with contextualizing de-development theory within the broader discipline of developmental studies and outlining how de-development works in practice, we compare the political-economic condi…
Weeping without tears: Kurdish female kolbers and gendered necropolitics of state in Iran
This article disentangles the nexus between coloniality, territoriality, and gendered necropolitics of state in Iran and how it shapes the lives of the Kurdish female cross‐border laborers (kolbers, in Kurdish) in Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat, in Kurdish). Drawing on Achille Mbembe's notion of “necropolitics,” we conceptualize kolberi as a work of death that subjects Kurds to indiscriminate and collective punishment through necro‐disciplinary meas…
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East: A Comparative Study of Palestine and Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan)
This paper examines the relationship of sovereignty with development and national identity in the violently hierarchized multinational, multireligious, and multilingual Iran. Drawing on the scholarship on Palestine studies and particularly Sara Roy’s theory of “de-development,” in this paper, we study how the sovereign ethnonation in Iran instrumentalizes and distorts development to subjugate the minoritized Kurdish nation. Along with contextuali…
Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring
Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade; A Graphic History
(2018). Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade; A Graphic History, by Rafe Blaufarb and Liz Clarke. African Historical Review: Vol. 50, “Bantustan States”, pp. 178-180
Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring
Can non-Persians speak? The sovereign’s narration of “Iranian identity
Since the late 19th century, despite multi-cultural and multilingual composition of Iranian population, Persian nationalism has functioned as the ideology of the state. Persian intelligentsia have formulated a set of historical and cultural referents that enabled them to present the Persian language and identity as primordial and all-inclusive of all Iranians. By the advent of the modern nation-state, during Pahlavi dynasty, the non-Persian ident…
Interrogating the tribal: The aporia of 'tribalism' in the sociological study of the Middle East
In this paper, we intend to deconstruct the term 'tribalism' as a colonial category, which figures as a prominent concept in social studies on Kurds as well as the Middle East at large. Blithely used, tribalism has occupied a central place, especially in the existing scholarship on Kurdistan. Some earlier anthropological works have gone so far as to regard tribalism as the 'DNA' of Middle Eastern people. Drawing on recent studies on Latin America…
The securitisation of life: Eastern Kurdistan under the rule of a Perso-Shi'i state
Since the 1979 Revolution, the Iranian state has adopted a sophisticated set of policies to assimilate the Eastern Kurds. The Kurds are often the main target of the Iranian state’s military operations, its assimilatory strategies, and its regime of surveillance. After the ‘conquest’ (fath) of Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat) in 1979, the state tried to retain control over the region through systemic militarisation, the establishment of ‘revolutionary…
Life and labor on the internal colonial edge: Political economy of kolberi in Rojhelat
Through the investigation of kolberi (cross-border labor), this paper sheds light on the state's policy of de-development (or internal colonialization) of the Kurdish region (known as Rojhelat) in Iran. While the most dangerous form of labor, kolberi has become a dominant employment opportunity for Rojhelat Kurds in the last decade. There are no Iranian state laws criminalizing kolberi, and yet those laborers die on a regular basis-being shot or …
Minoritisation' of the other: The Iranian ethno-theocratic state's assimilatory strategies
Since the establishment of the modern nation-state in Iran in the early twentieth century, the state has viewed Kurds and their political struggle for survival as an existential threat to its integrity. The Islamic Republic’s coming to power – after the 1979 Revolution – gravely intensified the state’s securitisation policies in the Eastern Kurdistan (also known as Rojhelat). This article, thus, investigates the Islamic Republic’s anti-Kurdish st…
Sovereignty and Developmental Policies in Palestine and Eastern Kurdistan
Inspired by the scholarship on Palestine studies and particularly by Sara Roy’s “de-development” theory, this paper investigates how the sovereign ethno-nation in Iran instrumentalizes and distorts development to subjugate the minoritized Kurdish nation. Along with contextualizing de-development theory within the broader discipline of developmental studies and outlining how de-development works in practice, we compare the political-economic condi…
Silencing the Past: Persian Archaeology, Race, Ethnicity, and Language
This paper investigates the ways in which the nationalist narrative of the statist archaeology in Iran has contributed to the dominant nationalist discourse in systematic attempts to erase any evidence of the existence of a "non-Aryan" past in the Iranian plateau. Sponsored by the state, ethnoracial archaeological studies in Iran have functioned as a powerful instrument for constructing a desired past, one that is informed by Persianist primordia…
The everydayness of spectacle violence under the Islamic Republic: ‘Fire at will’
On 17 June 2017, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, called on pro-regime vigilantes to ‘fire at will’ or to act on their own discretion in putting the state’s Islamic teaching into practice without the need to consult either their superiors or the relevant authorities. Our article argues that, since 1979, the policy of ‘firing at will’ has been the defining feature of the Islamic Republic’s model of governance and c…
Weeping without tears: Kurdish female kolbers and gendered necropolitics of state in Iran
This article disentangles the nexus between coloniality, territoriality, and gendered necropolitics of state in Iran and how it shapes the lives of the Kurdish female cross‐border laborers (kolbers, in Kurdish) in Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat, in Kurdish). Drawing on Achille Mbembe's notion of “necropolitics,” we conceptualize kolberi as a work of death that subjects Kurds to indiscriminate and collective punishment through necro‐disciplinary meas…
The Invention of Iran: From ‘Iranianness’ to ‘Persianness
The intellectual 'invention of Iran' is a potent image that owes its birth to the Orientalist practice of archaeology and historiography from the mid-19th to the latter 20th century: an intellectual enterprise that originated from the myth of Aryan race theory, the hypothesis of Aryan migration to the Indian subcontinent, and the subsequent positioning of Persian ethnie to be the sole author of Iran's 'glorious national past'. This Eurocentric na…
Persian orientalism: Raciolinguistic ideologies and the construction of ‘Iranianness
This article excavates the Eurocentric roots of Iranian nationalist discourse, which emerged from the political and intellectual trajectories of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Premised on the epistemic privilege of the Persian language, a selective remembrance of the past, and forging an internal Other, I contend that this raciolinguistic ideology equated Persianness with Iranianness and naturalised Persian as both a language and a race.…
Decolonizing Voices From Rojhelat: Gender-Othering, Ethnic Erasure, and the Politics of Intersectionality in Iran
The state murder of Jîna Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in Tehran on 16 September 2022, while in custody of the Islamic Republic's morality police, prompted a widespread uprising across Iran unprecedented in scale since the popular 1979 revolution. Adopting the Kurdish catchphrase 'Jin, Jîyan, Azadî' (Woman, Life, Freedom), this movement was largely centered in Kurdistan (known as Rojhelat) and Balochistan, two ethnically minoritized and econ…
Blood for bread: Necro-labor, nonsovereign bodies, and the state of exception in Rojhelat
As members of a stateless nation that is geopolitically divided across Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, Kurds are known mainly in the West as excellent fighters and political revolutionaries. Amid the devastation of war and political unrest, most Kurds struggle for economic survival. This is especially true for Eastern Kurds living under Iranian rule. They have seen their lands confiscated, their resources plundered, and their access to capital and…
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East: A Comparative Study of Palestine and Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan)
This paper examines the relationship of sovereignty with development and national identity in the violently hierarchized multinational, multireligious, and multilingual Iran. Drawing on the scholarship on Palestine studies and particularly Sara Roy’s theory of “de-development,” in this paper, we study how the sovereign ethnonation in Iran instrumentalizes and distorts development to subjugate the minoritized Kurdish nation. Along with contextuali…
Religion Meets Gender: The Impact of Sunni Islamic Discourse on the Jina Uprising in Eastern Kurdistan
The Jina uprising, ignited by the state-sanctioned killing of Jina (Mahsa) Amini in September 2022, marked a historic convergence of gender, ethnic, and religious resistance in Iran, particularly in Eastern Kurdistan (also known as Rojhelat or Iranian Kurdistan). Although the movement was initially framed as a feminist revolution, Sunni Muslim clerics and leaders played a pivotal role in shaping its trajectory. This article examines how religious…
Geographies of Exclusion: Mapping the Political Economy of Minoritized Nations in Iran
This article analyzes the socioeconomic factors influencing levels of economic well-being across Iran’s provinces, focusing on the impact of minority status, using data spanning 2015–2019. We employed a two-phased approach: first, we calculated welfare indices for each province and then assessed how minority status intersects with various socio-economic determinants to influence these indices. Findings reveal that minority groups, particularly th…
Nationalizing the religion: Sufism in the ‘Persianate World
Narrating Salafism: Sunni Marginalization and Authoritarian Religious Governance in Iranian Kurdistan
Salafism is an orthodox movement associated with political Islam that defines itself mainly through the negation of opposing ideologies and practices. Although a minority, Salafist movements have gained traction across parts of the Islamic world. This article examines an emerging branch of Salafism in Iranian Kurdistan (Known as Rojhelat). It employs narrative analysis to examine Sunni Kurds in Iran, with participants selected through purposive a…
The South Against Itself: Iranian Sociology, Non-Persian Ontologies, and the Global South’s Inner Coloniality
Culture of free-riding and ethical decision-making: A case study
This study explores how the culture of free-riding, which can be either shrewdness or wiliness, influences the ethical decision-making of actors in different situations and how intelligence mediates this relationship. The current study encompasses the entire male and female population residing in Tehran, specifically across 22 regions. From this population, a sample of 384 individuals was selected using Morgan’s table and cluster sampling method,…
Dispossessed geographies: Statelessness and eco-resistance in Rojhelat
Nishtiman” Is Her Name
Reclaiming Histories: Debunking Aryanism's Myth in the Middle East and South Asia
This article charts the enduring life of the ‘Aryan’ concept from its 19th‐century philological origins to its contemporary political, cultural and national manifestations. Born out of William Jones's linguistic comparisons and entangled with biblical stories, Aryanism evolved into a racialized ideology, underpinning European Romantic nationalism, scientific racism, and colonial interpretations of South Asian history. Aryan myth proved most resil…
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