Shahrzad Mojab
Biographic Data
| ID | 1432016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shahrzad Mojab |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shahrzad |
| FAMILY NAME | Mojab |
| SIGNATURE | MOJAB S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4103-2979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A revolutionary storm sparked by the fall of a butterfly
The formation of a theocratic state in Iran after the 1979 revolution has had profound and lasting ramifications within the country and beyond. This article presents a renewed Marxist feminist analysis of Iran's quest for freedom and democracy in the context of the rise of theocratic capitalism. I contend that Jîna's Uprising implores us to revisit the symbiotic relations between Islamic fundamentalism and capitalist imperialism. This crucial con…
Marxism and Migration
Marxism and Migration
Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Marxism, feminism, and “intersectionality”
“Intersectionality” is a key feminist concept used to explicate a multiplicity of socially constructed differences. While the term itself emerged from Black feminist activism and scholarship in the 1970s, it references a problem that has been at the forefront of international feminist struggles for decades, that is, how should we understand the organization of human life along lines of race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and so forth, and ho…
Race, class, and agency
This article argues that the starting point for Marxist feminist praxis is not rooted in questions of identity, agency, authenticity, space, or body but in the oppression and the exploitation of women and men of the working class, peasants, urban poor, and national minorities. The analysis herein departs from the postmodernist study of language, representation, or culture and reaffirms how capitalization and modernization have bolstered tradition…
The ideology of democracy/dictatorship as youth migrate
This article is an exploration in the mode of thinking of refugee youth on the relations of ‘democracy’ and ‘dictatorship.’ Tracing the geopolitical relations of authoritarian and democratic forms of governing we demonstrate the manner in which these political forms are socio-historically interdependent yet appear as politically distinct, which we understand as an ideological form of consciousness. Expanding out from interviews and focus groups c…
Youth as/in Crisis
Of Property and Propriety
Unraveling the Bindings of Muslim Women
These books are recent contributions to the continuing debate about Arab women and their affective engagement with Islam. The two overlapping themes in these publications are, first, the appeal and perspective of a post-Islamist political society in Muslim majority contexts, primarily using Egypt as an example, and, second, probing the older theme of fitna, the distracting potential of women’s sexuality and bodies and the ways it has been reclaim…
Youth, Social Crisis, & Learning
This special issue takes up two contemporary challenges in the field of adult education and the study of lifelong learning; first, the notion of ‘crisis’ and second, the question of ‘youth.’ The la
Marxism and Feminism
Global events, from economic crisis to social unrest and militarization, disproportionately affect women. Yet around the world it is also women who are leading the struggle against oppression and exploitation. In light of renewed interest in Marxist theory among many women activists and academics, Marxism and Feminism presents a contemporary and accessible Marxist–feminist analysis on a host of issues. It reassesses previous debates and seeks to …
Marxism and Feminism
Global events, from economic crisis to social unrest and militarization, disproportionately affect women. Yet around the world it is also women who are leading the struggle against oppression and exploitation. In light of renewed interest in Marxist theory among many women activists and academics, Marxism and Feminism presents a contemporary and accessible Marxist-feminist analysis on a host of issues. It reassesses previous debates and seeks to …
Introduction
Introduction| August 01 2012 Introduction: Dissent: The Politics and Poetics of Women’s Resistance Shahrzad Mojab Shahrzad Mojab Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 408–414. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1629007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Shahrzad Mojab; Introduction: Dissent: The Politics and Poetic…
Educating from Marx
Educators have been working to develop an important body of literature on neo-liberalism, capitalism, and imperialism. This combines original empirical studies with literature review from critical adu
Adult Education and the “Matter” of Consciousness in Marxist-Feminism
In teaching adult education courses, a major challenge for us is to make students articulate the sources of their knowledge about themselves or the world. We ask them to think through these questions: "How do you know what you know?" "Where does your knowledge come from?" There are some immediate and predictable answers such as personal experience, accumulated academic, or work-related knowledge, or social learning through culture, tradition, med…
Learning by dispossession
This paper brings together two ongoing research projects on current citizenship learning programs in Iraq and the United States, both of which draw from the theoretical ground of Marxist-feminist perspective. A particular strength of this paper is its comparison between two American citizenship education programs in the context of neoliberalism, war and imperialism. Many claim that citizenship learning is always an ideological project promoting a…
Of Property and Propriety
This essay, written in reflection of earlier work, introduces the themes needed to analyze forms of gender and class oppression as these have been mediated through, and by, hegemonic projects of imperialism and nationalism. It argues that the gender critique of imperialism and nationalism should be informed by a critical epistemology that integrates class, capital, and other social relations with ideologies and practices of power. A feminist hist…
Introduction
The articles in this collection, covering the diverse regions of Afghanistan, Egypt, and Palestine, engage in questions concerning gender and human rights discourses, anticolonial and anti-imperialist resistance, and religious and political fundamentalisms. They also discuss “colonial feminism” and “imperialist feminism” in the context of current wars and occupation in the Middle East, examine the mutually reinforcing yet conflicting relationship…
Not Born a Refugee Woman
Women, War and Learning
Women, war, and learning
An apocryphal story. Shortly after news broke about the horrors of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, in which hundreds of persons in a ‘cult’ in northwestern Guyana committed mass suicide under orders f
Dispersed Nationalism
In this paper we provide an analysis of Kurdish women’s organizing in the diaspora, highlighting the tension between “homeland” and “host-land” nationalisms, patriarchy, and feminism. This is the first feminist-transnational study of the experience of Kurdish women participating in a modern nation-building process in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq in the period of 1991–2003. The study is based on fieldwork among Kurdish women in Canada, Brit…
Hammed Shahidian (1959-2005)
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In the Quagmires of Ethnicity
Liberalism and Marxism both reject ethnicity - belongings to kin, religion, culture, race, descent, or ‘blood and soil’ - as a basis for the organization of state power. The two positions are, however, radically different in their approach to the separation of politics and ethnicity. The liberal panacea is legal and juridical: citizens are ‘equal before the law’ regardless of their ethnic belonging. Marxism endorses this project of legal equality…
Theorizing the Politics of 'Islamic Feminism
This article examines developments in 'Islamic feminism', and offers a critique of feminist theories, which construct it as an authentic and indigenous emancipatory alternative to secular feminisms. Focusing on Iranian theocracy, I argue that the Islamization of gender relations has created an oppressive patriarchy that cannot be replaced through legal reforms. While many women in Iran resist this religious and patriarchal regime, and an increasi…
Learning by dispossession
This paper brings together two ongoing research projects on current citizenship learning programs in Iraq and the United States, both of which draw from the theoretical ground of Marxist-feminist perspective. A particular strength of this paper is its comparison between two American citizenship education programs in the context of neoliberalism, war and imperialism. Many claim that citizenship learning is always an ideological project promoting a…
Dispersed Nationalism
In this paper we provide an analysis of Kurdish women’s organizing in the diaspora, highlighting the tension between “homeland” and “host-land” nationalisms, patriarchy, and feminism. This is the first feminist-transnational study of the experience of Kurdish women participating in a modern nation-building process in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq in the period of 1991–2003. The study is based on fieldwork among Kurdish women in Canada, Brit…
Integrative feminisms
Muslim" Women and "Western" Feminists
In the last two decades, a host of theoretical positions—cultural relativism, identity politics, postmodernism—have emphasized the differences that divide human beings and cultures. For these particularist theories, commonality, solidarity, and internationalism represent "grand narratives," "universalism," "totalization," or "essentialism," all of which are, it seems, inherently oppressive, Eurocentric, and imperialist. Politically, these types o…
Women, war, and learning
An apocryphal story. Shortly after news broke about the horrors of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, in which hundreds of persons in a ‘cult’ in northwestern Guyana committed mass suicide under orders f
Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Race, class, and agency
This article argues that the starting point for Marxist feminist praxis is not rooted in questions of identity, agency, authenticity, space, or body but in the oppression and the exploitation of women and men of the working class, peasants, urban poor, and national minorities. The analysis herein departs from the postmodernist study of language, representation, or culture and reaffirms how capitalization and modernization have bolstered tradition…
Of Property and Propriety
This essay, written in reflection of earlier work, introduces the themes needed to analyze forms of gender and class oppression as these have been mediated through, and by, hegemonic projects of imperialism and nationalism. It argues that the gender critique of imperialism and nationalism should be informed by a critical epistemology that integrates class, capital, and other social relations with ideologies and practices of power. A feminist hist…
The ideology of democracy/dictatorship as youth migrate
This article is an exploration in the mode of thinking of refugee youth on the relations of ‘democracy’ and ‘dictatorship.’ Tracing the geopolitical relations of authoritarian and democratic forms of governing we demonstrate the manner in which these political forms are socio-historically interdependent yet appear as politically distinct, which we understand as an ideological form of consciousness. Expanding out from interviews and focus groups c…
Unraveling the Bindings of Muslim Women
These books are recent contributions to the continuing debate about Arab women and their affective engagement with Islam. The two overlapping themes in these publications are, first, the appeal and perspective of a post-Islamist political society in Muslim majority contexts, primarily using Egypt as an example, and, second, probing the older theme of fitna, the distracting potential of women’s sexuality and bodies and the ways it has been reclaim…
Youth, Social Crisis, & Learning
This special issue takes up two contemporary challenges in the field of adult education and the study of lifelong learning; first, the notion of ‘crisis’ and second, the question of ‘youth.’ The la
In the Quagmires of Ethnicity
Liberalism and Marxism both reject ethnicity - belongings to kin, religion, culture, race, descent, or ‘blood and soil’ - as a basis for the organization of state power. The two positions are, however, radically different in their approach to the separation of politics and ethnicity. The liberal panacea is legal and juridical: citizens are ‘equal before the law’ regardless of their ethnic belonging. Marxism endorses this project of legal equality…
The State, university, and the construction of civil society in the Middle East
Integrative feminisms
The State, university, and the construction of civil society in the Middle East
Muslim" Women and "Western" Feminists
In the last two decades, a host of theoretical positions—cultural relativism, identity politics, postmodernism—have emphasized the differences that divide human beings and cultures. For these particularist theories, commonality, solidarity, and internationalism represent "grand narratives," "universalism," "totalization," or "essentialism," all of which are, it seems, inherently oppressive, Eurocentric, and imperialist. Politically, these types o…
Theorizing the Politics of 'Islamic Feminism
This article examines developments in 'Islamic feminism', and offers a critique of feminist theories, which construct it as an authentic and indigenous emancipatory alternative to secular feminisms. Focusing on Iranian theocracy, I argue that the Islamization of gender relations has created an oppressive patriarchy that cannot be replaced through legal reforms. While many women in Iran resist this religious and patriarchal regime, and an increasi…
Hammed Shahidian (1959-2005)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
In the Quagmires of Ethnicity
Liberalism and Marxism both reject ethnicity - belongings to kin, religion, culture, race, descent, or ‘blood and soil’ - as a basis for the organization of state power. The two positions are, however, radically different in their approach to the separation of politics and ethnicity. The liberal panacea is legal and juridical: citizens are ‘equal before the law’ regardless of their ethnic belonging. Marxism endorses this project of legal equality…
Dispersed Nationalism
In this paper we provide an analysis of Kurdish women’s organizing in the diaspora, highlighting the tension between “homeland” and “host-land” nationalisms, patriarchy, and feminism. This is the first feminist-transnational study of the experience of Kurdish women participating in a modern nation-building process in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq in the period of 1991–2003. The study is based on fieldwork among Kurdish women in Canada, Brit…
Not Born a Refugee Woman
Women, War and Learning
Women, war, and learning
An apocryphal story. Shortly after news broke about the horrors of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, in which hundreds of persons in a ‘cult’ in northwestern Guyana committed mass suicide under orders f
Of Property and Propriety
This essay, written in reflection of earlier work, introduces the themes needed to analyze forms of gender and class oppression as these have been mediated through, and by, hegemonic projects of imperialism and nationalism. It argues that the gender critique of imperialism and nationalism should be informed by a critical epistemology that integrates class, capital, and other social relations with ideologies and practices of power. A feminist hist…
Introduction
The articles in this collection, covering the diverse regions of Afghanistan, Egypt, and Palestine, engage in questions concerning gender and human rights discourses, anticolonial and anti-imperialist resistance, and religious and political fundamentalisms. They also discuss “colonial feminism” and “imperialist feminism” in the context of current wars and occupation in the Middle East, examine the mutually reinforcing yet conflicting relationship…
Educating from Marx
Educators have been working to develop an important body of literature on neo-liberalism, capitalism, and imperialism. This combines original empirical studies with literature review from critical adu
Adult Education and the “Matter” of Consciousness in Marxist-Feminism
In teaching adult education courses, a major challenge for us is to make students articulate the sources of their knowledge about themselves or the world. We ask them to think through these questions: "How do you know what you know?" "Where does your knowledge come from?" There are some immediate and predictable answers such as personal experience, accumulated academic, or work-related knowledge, or social learning through culture, tradition, med…
Learning by dispossession
This paper brings together two ongoing research projects on current citizenship learning programs in Iraq and the United States, both of which draw from the theoretical ground of Marxist-feminist perspective. A particular strength of this paper is its comparison between two American citizenship education programs in the context of neoliberalism, war and imperialism. Many claim that citizenship learning is always an ideological project promoting a…
Introduction
Introduction| August 01 2012 Introduction: Dissent: The Politics and Poetics of Women’s Resistance Shahrzad Mojab Shahrzad Mojab Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 408–414. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1629007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Shahrzad Mojab; Introduction: Dissent: The Politics and Poetic…
Marxism and Feminism
Global events, from economic crisis to social unrest and militarization, disproportionately affect women. Yet around the world it is also women who are leading the struggle against oppression and exploitation. In light of renewed interest in Marxist theory among many women activists and academics, Marxism and Feminism presents a contemporary and accessible Marxist–feminist analysis on a host of issues. It reassesses previous debates and seeks to …
Marxism and Feminism
Global events, from economic crisis to social unrest and militarization, disproportionately affect women. Yet around the world it is also women who are leading the struggle against oppression and exploitation. In light of renewed interest in Marxist theory among many women activists and academics, Marxism and Feminism presents a contemporary and accessible Marxist-feminist analysis on a host of issues. It reassesses previous debates and seeks to …
Of Property and Propriety
Unraveling the Bindings of Muslim Women
These books are recent contributions to the continuing debate about Arab women and their affective engagement with Islam. The two overlapping themes in these publications are, first, the appeal and perspective of a post-Islamist political society in Muslim majority contexts, primarily using Egypt as an example, and, second, probing the older theme of fitna, the distracting potential of women’s sexuality and bodies and the ways it has been reclaim…
Youth, Social Crisis, & Learning
This special issue takes up two contemporary challenges in the field of adult education and the study of lifelong learning; first, the notion of ‘crisis’ and second, the question of ‘youth.’ The la
Youth as/in Crisis
Marxism, feminism, and “intersectionality”
“Intersectionality” is a key feminist concept used to explicate a multiplicity of socially constructed differences. While the term itself emerged from Black feminist activism and scholarship in the 1970s, it references a problem that has been at the forefront of international feminist struggles for decades, that is, how should we understand the organization of human life along lines of race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and so forth, and ho…
Race, class, and agency
This article argues that the starting point for Marxist feminist praxis is not rooted in questions of identity, agency, authenticity, space, or body but in the oppression and the exploitation of women and men of the working class, peasants, urban poor, and national minorities. The analysis herein departs from the postmodernist study of language, representation, or culture and reaffirms how capitalization and modernization have bolstered tradition…
The ideology of democracy/dictatorship as youth migrate
This article is an exploration in the mode of thinking of refugee youth on the relations of ‘democracy’ and ‘dictatorship.’ Tracing the geopolitical relations of authoritarian and democratic forms of governing we demonstrate the manner in which these political forms are socio-historically interdependent yet appear as politically distinct, which we understand as an ideological form of consciousness. Expanding out from interviews and focus groups c…
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (23 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Feminism (8 works) · History (8 works) · Marxist philosophy (7 works)