Mehrdad Arabestani
Biographic Data
| ID | 1346745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mehrdad Arabestani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mehrdad |
| FAMILY NAME | Arabestani |
| SIGNATURE | ARABESTANI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tehran |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1654-8375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Health responsibility among marginalized women in Mashhad, northeastern Iran: A critical ethnographic study
Health responsibility is a cornerstone of self-care and health promotion. However, for marginalized women, this concept is intricately shaped by intersecting cultural, social, economic, and political forces that often impede their access to care and limit their decision-making autonomy. This study, therefore, utilizes critical ethnography to explore how these structural and cultural conditions shape marginalized women’s understanding and practice…
Academic Precariat: Practicing Social Sciences in Iran
Academics increasingly experience precarity as job insecurity, stressful working conditions, uncertainty, stuckedness, and constraints on choosing their career paths. The sources of academic precarity are diverse, ranging from neoliberal economic strategies to gendered issues, intellectual leadership patterns, and political influences. In a country like Iran, where politics permeate all aspects of social and private life, research and practice in…
Cosmology, identity and food related rituals among the Mandaeans
The Mandaeans are members of a Gnostic ethnoreligious group who live in Iran and Iraq. They have always been a small minority under the threat of cultural extinction. Recent wars and political unrest in their homeland have intensified the situation and accelerated the emigration and dissemination of the community. They practice elaborate religious rituals that revolve around the recurrent theme of bodily purity, including ritual concern for food …
The fatherless society: Discourse of the hysteric in Iran
The Mandaeans’ Religious System: From Mythos to Logos
Mandaeans, an ethno-religious group mostly living in Iraq and Iran, are bearers of a Gnostic tradition based on the scriptures written in Madaic. As a small minority living under the threat of cultural extinction and ethnocide, Mandaeans have developed highly elaborated purification rites as the source of their group identity. The concern for group integrity is well encoded in these rituals that symbolically and practically maintain the boundarie…
The Mandaeans’ Religious System: From Mythos to Logos
Mandaeans, an ethno-religious group mostly living in Iraq and Iran, are bearers of a Gnostic tradition based on the scriptures written in Madaic. As a small minority living under the threat of cultural extinction and ethnocide, Mandaeans have developed highly elaborated purification rites as the source of their group identity. The concern for group integrity is well encoded in these rituals that symbolically and practically maintain the boundarie…
Academic Precariat: Practicing Social Sciences in Iran
Academics increasingly experience precarity as job insecurity, stressful working conditions, uncertainty, stuckedness, and constraints on choosing their career paths. The sources of academic precarity are diverse, ranging from neoliberal economic strategies to gendered issues, intellectual leadership patterns, and political influences. In a country like Iran, where politics permeate all aspects of social and private life, research and practice in…
The Mandaeans’ Religious System: From Mythos to Logos
Mandaeans, an ethno-religious group mostly living in Iraq and Iran, are bearers of a Gnostic tradition based on the scriptures written in Madaic. As a small minority living under the threat of cultural extinction and ethnocide, Mandaeans have developed highly elaborated purification rites as the source of their group identity. The concern for group integrity is well encoded in these rituals that symbolically and practically maintain the boundarie…
The fatherless society: Discourse of the hysteric in Iran
Cosmology, identity and food related rituals among the Mandaeans
The Mandaeans are members of a Gnostic ethnoreligious group who live in Iran and Iraq. They have always been a small minority under the threat of cultural extinction. Recent wars and political unrest in their homeland have intensified the situation and accelerated the emigration and dissemination of the community. They practice elaborate religious rituals that revolve around the recurrent theme of bodily purity, including ritual concern for food …
Academic Precariat: Practicing Social Sciences in Iran
Academics increasingly experience precarity as job insecurity, stressful working conditions, uncertainty, stuckedness, and constraints on choosing their career paths. The sources of academic precarity are diverse, ranging from neoliberal economic strategies to gendered issues, intellectual leadership patterns, and political influences. In a country like Iran, where politics permeate all aspects of social and private life, research and practice in…
Health responsibility among marginalized women in Mashhad, northeastern Iran: A critical ethnographic study
Health responsibility is a cornerstone of self-care and health promotion. However, for marginalized women, this concept is intricately shaped by intersecting cultural, social, economic, and political forces that often impede their access to care and limit their decision-making autonomy. This study, therefore, utilizes critical ethnography to explore how these structural and cultural conditions shape marginalized women’s understanding and practice…
Sociology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)