Ehsan Kashfi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ehsan Kashfi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ehsan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kashfi |
| SIGNATURE | KASHFI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Cross‐cultural and Regional Studies University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1989-4708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The field divided
This study looks at how diasporic opponents of the Islamic Republic contested Team Melli’s status as a symbol of national unity during the 2022 World Cup, turning support for and opposition to the national team into an arena of contentious politics and activism. Using digital ethnography and qualitative content analysis, it traces the narrative strategies and visual representations through which activists recast Team Melli as divisive rather than…
More Than a Game
This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in Tabriz, in the construction and expression of Azeri identity in Iran. This paper argues that much of the…
The politics of street names
With the radical political change in 1979, Iran's revolutionary state assumed the responsibility of re‐rewriting the past history to forge a new sense of belonging, a particularly collective religious (Shia) identity. It launched a complex process of forgetting and remembering to first eliminate the national (Persian), non‐religious memories and heritage, associated and celebrated by the previous regime and then establish a sense of continuity wi…
The Politics of Calendars
This paper seeks to investigate how commemorative practices, rituals, and holidays are invented, deployed, and recast for political and ideological purposes, to reinforce and sustain a particular narrative of national identity. It argues that the choice of particular moments of a country's past to be commemorated in calendars as national holidays and the way in which the collective past is preserved and remembered both reflect and articulate a co…
Iran’s Path toward Islamic Reformism
Iran’s Path toward Islamic Reformism A Study of Religious Intellectual Discourse
The politics of street names
With the radical political change in 1979, Iran's revolutionary state assumed the responsibility of re‐rewriting the past history to forge a new sense of belonging, a particularly collective religious (Shia) identity. It launched a complex process of forgetting and remembering to first eliminate the national (Persian), non‐religious memories and heritage, associated and celebrated by the previous regime and then establish a sense of continuity wi…
The Politics of Calendars
This paper seeks to investigate how commemorative practices, rituals, and holidays are invented, deployed, and recast for political and ideological purposes, to reinforce and sustain a particular narrative of national identity. It argues that the choice of particular moments of a country's past to be commemorated in calendars as national holidays and the way in which the collective past is preserved and remembered both reflect and articulate a co…
Iran’s Path toward Islamic Reformism A Study of Religious Intellectual Discourse
Iran’s Path toward Islamic Reformism
The Politics of Calendars
This paper seeks to investigate how commemorative practices, rituals, and holidays are invented, deployed, and recast for political and ideological purposes, to reinforce and sustain a particular narrative of national identity. It argues that the choice of particular moments of a country's past to be commemorated in calendars as national holidays and the way in which the collective past is preserved and remembered both reflect and articulate a co…
The politics of street names
With the radical political change in 1979, Iran's revolutionary state assumed the responsibility of re‐rewriting the past history to forge a new sense of belonging, a particularly collective religious (Shia) identity. It launched a complex process of forgetting and remembering to first eliminate the national (Persian), non‐religious memories and heritage, associated and celebrated by the previous regime and then establish a sense of continuity wi…
More Than a Game
This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in Tabriz, in the construction and expression of Azeri identity in Iran. This paper argues that much of the…
The field divided
This study looks at how diasporic opponents of the Islamic Republic contested Team Melli’s status as a symbol of national unity during the 2022 World Cup, turning support for and opposition to the national team into an arena of contentious politics and activism. Using digital ethnography and qualitative content analysis, it traces the narrative strategies and visual representations through which activists recast Team Melli as divisive rather than…
Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · Islam (4 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Collective memory (2 works)