Amirhossein Teimouri
Biographic Data
| ID | 277845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amirhossein Teimouri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amirhossein |
| FAMILY NAME | Teimouri |
| SIGNATURE | TEIMOURI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-7335-7179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The long cultural backlash movement: Pro-regime social justice mobilizations, discourses and policies in Iran (1995-2010)
Growing research on state-organized mobilizations (SOMs) has yet to establish a clear connection between cultural backlash movements in authoritarian regimes and a broad range of state-led contentions, especially SOMs. The case of SOMs in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IR), exemplified by cultural backlash from 1995 until 2010, considerably enriches our understanding of various forms of state-led contentions. Pro-regime cultural contentions in Ira…
Toward a Generalizable Understanding of Rightist Movements: Utilizing the Revolutionary Right's Value Wars in Iran (1995-2009) as a Case Study
Bringing rightist movement studies into the Iranian context, this study advances a generalizable understanding of the ideological, moral, and cultural activism of Islamist movements and their rightist counterparts. While numerous studies have discussed the economic explanation of rightist movements, I integrate Islamist movements in the Muslim world and rightist movements in the West to develop a generalizable cultural and moral explanation of ri…
How the Islamic Republic Has Responded to Everyday Resistance Against the Mandatory Hijab: Making Sense of Five Pro-Hijab Contentions in Iran (1988-2022)
How do gender anxieties shape pro-state and/or state-led contentions (SLCs)? Taking cues from several theoretical and methodological traditions, I develop a gender-driven theory of SLCs. Drawing on anxieties on the hijab among revolutionary pro-state (aka pro-regime) actors, factions, and organizations in Iran from 1988 until 2022, I discuss how the Islamic Republic (IR) responded to everyday grassroots resistance against pro-mandatory hijab poli…
The Mahdavī Society: The Rise of Millennialism in Iran as the Cultural Outcome of Social Movements (2000–2016)
This study asks questions about the understudied cultural, especially discursive, consequences of social movements at large, and rightist movements in particular. Focusing on the discursive repertoire of the Islamist rightist movement in Iran (known as principlism), I demonstrate that in response to the liberal Reform Movement (1997–2005), the principlist groups in Iran weaponized a millennial language against liberal reformists beginning in the …
Google Plus as a Contentious Field of Revolutionary Identity: The Rise and Fall of the Rightist Islamist Anti-Nuclear Deal Movement in Iran
Social media platforms have been increasingly reinvigorating extreme movements, especially rightist movements. Utilizing unique Google Plus data, the author shows the rise and fall of the 2015 rightist anti-Nuclear Deal movement in Iran. He argues that the Google Plus platform in 2015 provided the new generation of revolutionary Islamist rightist activists with a contentious space of mobilization, enabling them to develop a new revolutionary righ…
Passing the Torch: Iran’s 2013 Surprise, the Digital Generational Gap, and the Depoliticization of Public Intellectuals
The Mahdavī Society: The Rise of Millennialism in Iran as the Cultural Outcome of Social Movements (2000–2016)
This study asks questions about the understudied cultural, especially discursive, consequences of social movements at large, and rightist movements in particular. Focusing on the discursive repertoire of the Islamist rightist movement in Iran (known as principlism), I demonstrate that in response to the liberal Reform Movement (1997–2005), the principlist groups in Iran weaponized a millennial language against liberal reformists beginning in the …
The long cultural backlash movement: Pro-regime social justice mobilizations, discourses and policies in Iran (1995-2010)
Growing research on state-organized mobilizations (SOMs) has yet to establish a clear connection between cultural backlash movements in authoritarian regimes and a broad range of state-led contentions, especially SOMs. The case of SOMs in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IR), exemplified by cultural backlash from 1995 until 2010, considerably enriches our understanding of various forms of state-led contentions. Pro-regime cultural contentions in Ira…
How the Islamic Republic Has Responded to Everyday Resistance Against the Mandatory Hijab: Making Sense of Five Pro-Hijab Contentions in Iran (1988-2022)
How do gender anxieties shape pro-state and/or state-led contentions (SLCs)? Taking cues from several theoretical and methodological traditions, I develop a gender-driven theory of SLCs. Drawing on anxieties on the hijab among revolutionary pro-state (aka pro-regime) actors, factions, and organizations in Iran from 1988 until 2022, I discuss how the Islamic Republic (IR) responded to everyday grassroots resistance against pro-mandatory hijab poli…
Passing the Torch: Iran’s 2013 Surprise, the Digital Generational Gap, and the Depoliticization of Public Intellectuals
Google Plus as a Contentious Field of Revolutionary Identity: The Rise and Fall of the Rightist Islamist Anti-Nuclear Deal Movement in Iran
Social media platforms have been increasingly reinvigorating extreme movements, especially rightist movements. Utilizing unique Google Plus data, the author shows the rise and fall of the 2015 rightist anti-Nuclear Deal movement in Iran. He argues that the Google Plus platform in 2015 provided the new generation of revolutionary Islamist rightist activists with a contentious space of mobilization, enabling them to develop a new revolutionary righ…
The Mahdavī Society: The Rise of Millennialism in Iran as the Cultural Outcome of Social Movements (2000–2016)
This study asks questions about the understudied cultural, especially discursive, consequences of social movements at large, and rightist movements in particular. Focusing on the discursive repertoire of the Islamist rightist movement in Iran (known as principlism), I demonstrate that in response to the liberal Reform Movement (1997–2005), the principlist groups in Iran weaponized a millennial language against liberal reformists beginning in the …
The long cultural backlash movement: Pro-regime social justice mobilizations, discourses and policies in Iran (1995-2010)
Growing research on state-organized mobilizations (SOMs) has yet to establish a clear connection between cultural backlash movements in authoritarian regimes and a broad range of state-led contentions, especially SOMs. The case of SOMs in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IR), exemplified by cultural backlash from 1995 until 2010, considerably enriches our understanding of various forms of state-led contentions. Pro-regime cultural contentions in Ira…
Toward a Generalizable Understanding of Rightist Movements: Utilizing the Revolutionary Right's Value Wars in Iran (1995-2009) as a Case Study
Bringing rightist movement studies into the Iranian context, this study advances a generalizable understanding of the ideological, moral, and cultural activism of Islamist movements and their rightist counterparts. While numerous studies have discussed the economic explanation of rightist movements, I integrate Islamist movements in the Muslim world and rightist movements in the West to develop a generalizable cultural and moral explanation of ri…
How the Islamic Republic Has Responded to Everyday Resistance Against the Mandatory Hijab: Making Sense of Five Pro-Hijab Contentions in Iran (1988-2022)
How do gender anxieties shape pro-state and/or state-led contentions (SLCs)? Taking cues from several theoretical and methodological traditions, I develop a gender-driven theory of SLCs. Drawing on anxieties on the hijab among revolutionary pro-state (aka pro-regime) actors, factions, and organizations in Iran from 1988 until 2022, I discuss how the Islamic Republic (IR) responded to everyday grassroots resistance against pro-mandatory hijab poli…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social movement (3 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)