Reza Ashouri Talooki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1265474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reza Ashouri Talooki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reza Ashouri |
| FAMILY NAME | Talooki |
| SIGNATURE | TALOOKI R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keyano College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5564-8216 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
When the nation outlives the state
This article theorises a historically neglected political phenomenon: the conditions under which citizens and diasporic populations sever national identification from their own state, to the point of welcoming external force against it as an act of national fidelity rather than betrayal. Advancing the concept of necropolitical disarticulation, the study synthesises Mbembe’s necropolitics, Puar’s theory of debilitation, state–nation decoupling fra…
Television as technology of remembrance
This article develops ‘cultural alchemy’ as a media studies framework for understanding how post-apocalyptic television recasts survival as creative cultural practice rather than mere endurance. Focusing on The Walking Dead (AMC, 2010–2022) and Station Eleven (HBO, 2021–2022), it examines how serial storytelling, industrial context, and visual aesthetics model cultural transformation through objects, performance, and chosen kinship. Drawing on te…
Humornizing the Other
This paper examines Maz Jobrani's Axis of Evil Comedy Tour (2007) as a foundational case for how stand‐up comedy operationalizes “humornizing”—a collaborative process through which humor invites audiences to reconstitute social boundaries and transform the marginalized “other” into a subject of shared humanity. Building on Ashouri Talooki's (2017) concept of humornizing adapted here to live performance, the study develops an analytic model rooted…
Re-Imagining Home in Transnational Narratives
This article analyses Firoozeh Dumas’s memoirs, Funny in Farsi and Laughing Without an Accent , to examine how Iranian-American homemaking is constructed as a dynamic, embodied and sensory process in diaspora life writing. Drawing on recent scholarship in diaspora studies, the sociology of home and life writing, the article introduces and develops the concept of ‘multisensory homing’ as an innovative interdisciplinary framework. This approach the…
The Architecture of Belonging
This study examines Asghar Farhadi’s film The Past (2013) through the lens of home and belonging in transnational contexts. Utilizing frameworks from diaspora studies, cultural theory, and film studies, it analyzes how Farhadi constructs notions of home through cinematic language, character development, and narrative structure. The analysis focuses on spatial, temporal, and embodied experiences of home, exploring how domestic spaces like Marie’s …
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Re-Imagining Home in Transnational Narratives
This article analyses Firoozeh Dumas’s memoirs, Funny in Farsi and Laughing Without an Accent , to examine how Iranian-American homemaking is constructed as a dynamic, embodied and sensory process in diaspora life writing. Drawing on recent scholarship in diaspora studies, the sociology of home and life writing, the article introduces and develops the concept of ‘multisensory homing’ as an innovative interdisciplinary framework. This approach the…
The Architecture of Belonging
This study examines Asghar Farhadi’s film The Past (2013) through the lens of home and belonging in transnational contexts. Utilizing frameworks from diaspora studies, cultural theory, and film studies, it analyzes how Farhadi constructs notions of home through cinematic language, character development, and narrative structure. The analysis focuses on spatial, temporal, and embodied experiences of home, exploring how domestic spaces like Marie’s …
When the nation outlives the state
This article theorises a historically neglected political phenomenon: the conditions under which citizens and diasporic populations sever national identification from their own state, to the point of welcoming external force against it as an act of national fidelity rather than betrayal. Advancing the concept of necropolitical disarticulation, the study synthesises Mbembe’s necropolitics, Puar’s theory of debilitation, state–nation decoupling fra…
Television as technology of remembrance
This article develops ‘cultural alchemy’ as a media studies framework for understanding how post-apocalyptic television recasts survival as creative cultural practice rather than mere endurance. Focusing on The Walking Dead (AMC, 2010–2022) and Station Eleven (HBO, 2021–2022), it examines how serial storytelling, industrial context, and visual aesthetics model cultural transformation through objects, performance, and chosen kinship. Drawing on te…
Humornizing the Other
This paper examines Maz Jobrani's Axis of Evil Comedy Tour (2007) as a foundational case for how stand‐up comedy operationalizes “humornizing”—a collaborative process through which humor invites audiences to reconstitute social boundaries and transform the marginalized “other” into a subject of shared humanity. Building on Ashouri Talooki's (2017) concept of humornizing adapted here to live performance, the study develops an analytic model rooted…
Narrative (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (2 works) · Embodied cognition (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Scholarship (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Alchemy (1 work) · American Literature and Humor Studies (1 work) · Architecture (1 work) · Art (1 work)