Mohammad H Tamdgidi
Biographic Data
| ID | 249411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammad H Tamdgidi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammad H |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamdgidi |
| SIGNATURE | TAMDGIDI M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Private Troubles and Public Issues
Personal [or private] troubles and public issues” is an expression that was originally coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in his pathbreaking and highly influential work The Sociological Imagination , published in 1959. Therein, he advocated a mode of inquiry in sociology centering on the idea that social life can be best understood by exploring how personal troubles and public issues inter‐relate. During the last two decades, a g…
Beyond Islamophobia and Islamophilia as Western Epistemic Racisms: Revisiting Runnymede Trust's Definition in a World-History Context
The media have become obsessed with something called “Islam,” which in their voguish lexicon has acquired only two meanings, both of them unacceptable and impoverishing. On the one hand, “Islam” represents the threat of a resurgent atavism, which suggests not only the menace of a return to the Middle Ages but the destruction of what Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan calls the democratic order in the Western world. On the other hand, “Islam” is made…
The Promise of Poststructuralist Sociology: Marginalized Peoples and the Problem of Knowledge
I Change Myself, I Change the World”: Gloria Anzaldúa's Sociological Imagination in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
What lessons can sociologists draw from Chicana cultural theorist and spiritual activist Gloria E. Anzaldúa to advance the sociological imagination and intellectual agenda that make a public difference? In this paper I argue the key to Anzaldúa's public impact has to be sought in her thesis of the simultaneity of self and global transformations, and the intricate strategies she used to advance the thesis through her writings such as Borderlands/L…
Public Sociology and the Sociological Imagination: Revisiting Burawoy's Sociology Types
Reflecting on Michael Burawoy's classification of sociology into professional, critical, policy, and public types, and the adoption of the latter as the theme of the ASA's 99th Annual Meeting, in this paper I argue that the drive toward public sociologies of new global realities may prove hazardous in the absence of a parallel emphasis on the development of reflexive private sociologies. This requires critical reconsideration of our basic definit…
Romance and Reason: Ontological and Social Sources of Alienation in the Writings of Max Weber
Abu Ghraib as a Microcosm: The Strange Face of Empire as a Lived Prison
Drawing on Derrida, Foucault, Dorothy Smith, Anzaldúa, Wallerstein, Said, and Gurdjieff, among others, this article argues that the strangeness of Abu Ghraib—“father of the strange (or of the stranger)”—has less to do with what went on inside the prison and more with the global prison yard. Strange is how we, global spectators of the prison abuses, continue to stand on shaky cardboard boxes of rising and falling empires with hoods of amnesia and …
Witchcraft and Magic: Contemporary North America
Public Sociology and the Sociological Imagination: Revisiting Burawoy's Sociology Types
Reflecting on Michael Burawoy's classification of sociology into professional, critical, policy, and public types, and the adoption of the latter as the theme of the ASA's 99th Annual Meeting, in this paper I argue that the drive toward public sociologies of new global realities may prove hazardous in the absence of a parallel emphasis on the development of reflexive private sociologies. This requires critical reconsideration of our basic definit…
I Change Myself, I Change the World”: Gloria Anzaldúa's Sociological Imagination in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
What lessons can sociologists draw from Chicana cultural theorist and spiritual activist Gloria E. Anzaldúa to advance the sociological imagination and intellectual agenda that make a public difference? In this paper I argue the key to Anzaldúa's public impact has to be sought in her thesis of the simultaneity of self and global transformations, and the intricate strategies she used to advance the thesis through her writings such as Borderlands/L…
Romance and Reason: Ontological and Social Sources of Alienation in the Writings of Max Weber
Witchcraft and Magic: Contemporary North America
Abu Ghraib as a Microcosm: The Strange Face of Empire as a Lived Prison
Drawing on Derrida, Foucault, Dorothy Smith, Anzaldúa, Wallerstein, Said, and Gurdjieff, among others, this article argues that the strangeness of Abu Ghraib—“father of the strange (or of the stranger)”—has less to do with what went on inside the prison and more with the global prison yard. Strange is how we, global spectators of the prison abuses, continue to stand on shaky cardboard boxes of rising and falling empires with hoods of amnesia and …
Abu Ghraib as a Microcosm: The Strange Face of Empire as a Lived Prison
Drawing on Derrida, Foucault, Dorothy Smith, Anzaldúa, Wallerstein, Said, and Gurdjieff, among others, this article argues that the strangeness of Abu Ghraib—“father of the strange (or of the stranger)”—has less to do with what went on inside the prison and more with the global prison yard. Strange is how we, global spectators of the prison abuses, continue to stand on shaky cardboard boxes of rising and falling empires with hoods of amnesia and …
Witchcraft and Magic: Contemporary North America
Romance and Reason: Ontological and Social Sources of Alienation in the Writings of Max Weber
I Change Myself, I Change the World”: Gloria Anzaldúa's Sociological Imagination in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
What lessons can sociologists draw from Chicana cultural theorist and spiritual activist Gloria E. Anzaldúa to advance the sociological imagination and intellectual agenda that make a public difference? In this paper I argue the key to Anzaldúa's public impact has to be sought in her thesis of the simultaneity of self and global transformations, and the intricate strategies she used to advance the thesis through her writings such as Borderlands/L…
Public Sociology and the Sociological Imagination: Revisiting Burawoy's Sociology Types
Reflecting on Michael Burawoy's classification of sociology into professional, critical, policy, and public types, and the adoption of the latter as the theme of the ASA's 99th Annual Meeting, in this paper I argue that the drive toward public sociologies of new global realities may prove hazardous in the absence of a parallel emphasis on the development of reflexive private sociologies. This requires critical reconsideration of our basic definit…
The Promise of Poststructuralist Sociology: Marginalized Peoples and the Problem of Knowledge
Beyond Islamophobia and Islamophilia as Western Epistemic Racisms: Revisiting Runnymede Trust's Definition in a World-History Context
The media have become obsessed with something called “Islam,” which in their voguish lexicon has acquired only two meanings, both of them unacceptable and impoverishing. On the one hand, “Islam” represents the threat of a resurgent atavism, which suggests not only the menace of a return to the Middle Ages but the destruction of what Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan calls the democratic order in the Western world. On the other hand, “Islam” is made…
Private Troubles and Public Issues
Personal [or private] troubles and public issues” is an expression that was originally coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in his pathbreaking and highly influential work The Sociological Imagination , published in 1959. Therein, he advocated a mode of inquiry in sociology centering on the idea that social life can be best understood by exploring how personal troubles and public issues inter‐relate. During the last two decades, a g…
Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (3 works) · Sociological imagination (3 works)