Mikiya Koyagi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikiya Koyagi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikiya |
| FAMILY NAME | Koyagi |
| SIGNATURE | KOYAGI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1901-5267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pedalling in Pahlavi Iran: Cycle mobility and competing masculinities
Using Persian memoirs, periodicals, and photographs, this essay examines how Iranians integrated the bicycle into their everyday lives in the rapidly changing socioeconomic contexts of the Pahlavi period (1925–1979). It seeks to achieve two goals. First, by drawing comparisons from different geographical contexts, it illustrates how Iran's comparatively belated encounter with bicycle technology shaped its use and social meanings, revealing the ag…
An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan
While participating in the discourse of world religions, Japanese biographers published accounts of Muhammad's life in many genres of academic and popular books during the Meiji and Taisho eras (1868-1926). This article unravels how these biographical accounts played a crucial role in facilitating a geographical imaginary of Asia/the East which incorporated both Japan and West Asia. Situated in a radically different context from the Victorian bio…
Tribes and Smugglers in Iran's Eastern Borderlands, 1921–41
Based primarily on British consular reports, this article studies transborder movement in Iran's eastern borderlands during the two decades following the rise of Reza Khan in 1921. It discusses two kinds of transborder movements: tribal exodus and smuggling. By examining the contexts of these transborder movements, this article explores the desire of the new state to assert sovereignty as it appeared in the borderlands and demonstrates that, rath…
Drivers across the Desert
This article examines the making and unmaking of an infrastructural system in the Indo-Iranian borderlands, an area that is often overlooked in an area studies paradigm. In particular, it focuses on the infrastructural network that developed following World War I with the Iranian border town of Dozdab/Zahedan as a nodal point. The article explores two interrelated issues. First, it looks at the role of British strategic interests in shaping infra…
The Vernacular Journey: Railway Travelers in Early Pahlavi Iran, 1925–50
Exploring how railway technology was incorporated into the everyday lives of Iranians during the second quarter of the 20th century, this article focuses on spatial discourses and practices around the Iranian railway. The first part investigates Iranian journalists' construction of the railway traveler prototype as the propagator of modernity prior to the completion of the Trans-Iranian Railway in 1938. The second part shows how in the 1940s the …
The Hajj by Japanese Muslims in the Interwar Period: Japan’s Pan-Asianism and Economic Interests in the Islamic World
This article analyzes Japan’s efforts to reach out to the Islamic world, particularly the Middle East, in the first half of the twentieth century. It pays particular attention to the hajj by Japanese Muslims from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of the 1930s because the hajj encapsulates the changing ways in which the Japanese interacted with state and nonstate actors from the Islamic world. Existing works on Japanese-Islamic int…
Moulding Future Soldiers and Mothers of the Iranian Nation: Gender and Physical Education under Reza Shah, 1921–41
This article discusses the development of male and female physical education and scouting in early twentieth-century Iran and the construction of ideal gender images through the process of implementation. Utilizing articles from various Iranian periodicals, it argues that physical education constituted an important medium for the state and its new middle class supporters to convey two major messages, which internally circulated among themselves a…
Modern Education in Iran during the Qajar and Pahlavi Periods
Historical writing on modern education in Iran has changed in the past few decades. Earlier works that focused on the top‐down feature of modern education were very much influenced by modernization theory, nationalist historiography, and the dichotomous notion of reform and reaction. First, this article suggests that one should analyze the view of specific individuals or groups on modern education rather than simply dividing them into reformists …
Moulding Future Soldiers and Mothers of the Iranian Nation: Gender and Physical Education under Reza Shah, 1921–41
This article discusses the development of male and female physical education and scouting in early twentieth-century Iran and the construction of ideal gender images through the process of implementation. Utilizing articles from various Iranian periodicals, it argues that physical education constituted an important medium for the state and its new middle class supporters to convey two major messages, which internally circulated among themselves a…
The Vernacular Journey: Railway Travelers in Early Pahlavi Iran, 1925–50
Exploring how railway technology was incorporated into the everyday lives of Iranians during the second quarter of the 20th century, this article focuses on spatial discourses and practices around the Iranian railway. The first part investigates Iranian journalists' construction of the railway traveler prototype as the propagator of modernity prior to the completion of the Trans-Iranian Railway in 1938. The second part shows how in the 1940s the …
Drivers across the Desert
This article examines the making and unmaking of an infrastructural system in the Indo-Iranian borderlands, an area that is often overlooked in an area studies paradigm. In particular, it focuses on the infrastructural network that developed following World War I with the Iranian border town of Dozdab/Zahedan as a nodal point. The article explores two interrelated issues. First, it looks at the role of British strategic interests in shaping infra…
Modern Education in Iran during the Qajar and Pahlavi Periods
Historical writing on modern education in Iran has changed in the past few decades. Earlier works that focused on the top‐down feature of modern education were very much influenced by modernization theory, nationalist historiography, and the dichotomous notion of reform and reaction. First, this article suggests that one should analyze the view of specific individuals or groups on modern education rather than simply dividing them into reformists …
Moulding Future Soldiers and Mothers of the Iranian Nation: Gender and Physical Education under Reza Shah, 1921–41
This article discusses the development of male and female physical education and scouting in early twentieth-century Iran and the construction of ideal gender images through the process of implementation. Utilizing articles from various Iranian periodicals, it argues that physical education constituted an important medium for the state and its new middle class supporters to convey two major messages, which internally circulated among themselves a…
The Hajj by Japanese Muslims in the Interwar Period: Japan’s Pan-Asianism and Economic Interests in the Islamic World
This article analyzes Japan’s efforts to reach out to the Islamic world, particularly the Middle East, in the first half of the twentieth century. It pays particular attention to the hajj by Japanese Muslims from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of the 1930s because the hajj encapsulates the changing ways in which the Japanese interacted with state and nonstate actors from the Islamic world. Existing works on Japanese-Islamic int…
The Vernacular Journey: Railway Travelers in Early Pahlavi Iran, 1925–50
Exploring how railway technology was incorporated into the everyday lives of Iranians during the second quarter of the 20th century, this article focuses on spatial discourses and practices around the Iranian railway. The first part investigates Iranian journalists' construction of the railway traveler prototype as the propagator of modernity prior to the completion of the Trans-Iranian Railway in 1938. The second part shows how in the 1940s the …
Drivers across the Desert
This article examines the making and unmaking of an infrastructural system in the Indo-Iranian borderlands, an area that is often overlooked in an area studies paradigm. In particular, it focuses on the infrastructural network that developed following World War I with the Iranian border town of Dozdab/Zahedan as a nodal point. The article explores two interrelated issues. First, it looks at the role of British strategic interests in shaping infra…
Tribes and Smugglers in Iran's Eastern Borderlands, 1921–41
Based primarily on British consular reports, this article studies transborder movement in Iran's eastern borderlands during the two decades following the rise of Reza Khan in 1921. It discusses two kinds of transborder movements: tribal exodus and smuggling. By examining the contexts of these transborder movements, this article explores the desire of the new state to assert sovereignty as it appeared in the borderlands and demonstrates that, rath…
An Eastern hero: Biographies of Muhammad in imperial Japan
While participating in the discourse of world religions, Japanese biographers published accounts of Muhammad's life in many genres of academic and popular books during the Meiji and Taisho eras (1868-1926). This article unravels how these biographical accounts played a crucial role in facilitating a geographical imaginary of Asia/the East which incorporated both Japan and West Asia. Situated in a radically different context from the Victorian bio…
Pedalling in Pahlavi Iran: Cycle mobility and competing masculinities
Using Persian memoirs, periodicals, and photographs, this essay examines how Iranians integrated the bicycle into their everyday lives in the rapidly changing socioeconomic contexts of the Pahlavi period (1925–1979). It seeks to achieve two goals. First, by drawing comparisons from different geographical contexts, it illustrates how Iran's comparatively belated encounter with bicycle technology shaped its use and social meanings, revealing the ag…
Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · State (computer science (4 works)