Golnar Nikpour
Biographic Data
| ID | 2782540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Golnar Nikpour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Golnar |
| FAMILY NAME | Nikpour |
| SIGNATURE | NIKPOUR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-7977-5131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decolonization Now
Post–World War II ushered in an era of rapid decolonization across the Global South; a period about which Ghanaian revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah exultantly wrote that European direct rule was “everywhere in retreat.” Still, those anticolonial victories were experienced unevenly across the decolonizing world, often undone by new forms of neocolonial exploitation, rising authoritarianism, and counterinsurgent violence. For many peoples, especially in…
Khomeini Kitsch
In November 1980, a twenty-nine-year-old contract worker in Hammond, Louisiana by the name of Stephen K. Clark was arrested and charged with criminal mischief for painting a thirty-foot mural of Mickey Mouse “making an obscene gesture to Iran” on the side of Sunflower supermarket. According to the store's manager, Clark had been hired to give the store a fresh coat of yellow paint before going wildly off script. The Hammond city prosecutor told t…
The Incarcerated Modern
Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the twentieth century into a modern nation-state with over a quarter million prisoners today. In policing the line between "bad criminal" and "good citizen," the carceral system has shaped and reshaped Iranian understandings of citizenshi…
On Revolutionary Possibility in the Archive of 1979
1979 was a watershed year in Iran. On January 16, Iran's embattled monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his wife fled the country amid a mass revolutionary groundswell. On February 11, after months of escalating protests, the final vestiges of the Pahlavi monarchy crumbled, bringing to power a new political order that would soon dub itself the Islamic Republic of Iran. The success of the revolutionary movement would not be the only jolt to Iran's …
From Fallen Women to Citizen Mothers
Modern carcerality in Iran, with its attendant systems of surveillance, policing, and mass imprisonment, was a gendered project from the outset. In turn, the new modern prisons of the Pahlavi era (1925–79) provoked gendered anxieties about seemingly rising rates of female and child criminality, the deteriorating family unit, and the inherent sin and vice of life in a modern city. In general, it is difficult to overstate the wholesale changes that…
The Criminal Is the Patient, the Prison Will Be the Cure
In the late 1920s, at the same time as the centralization of Iran's legal system, the nascent Pahlavi state inaugurated a carceral system and imaginary in which modern prisons were promoted as necessary and progressive solutions to myriad social crises. In this era, Pahlavi statesmen and law enforcement officials attended conferences on policing and prisons in Europe, drawing architectures and techniques of punishment from those sources and worki…
On Historical Singularity and Universal Histories
Revolutionary Journeys, Revolutionary Practice
Nikpour’s article explores the emergence of new iterations of Islamic universalism in the mid-twentieth century by examining two important 1960s texts that are rarely if ever discussed in the same context: The Autobiography of Malcolm X and a travelogue titled Khasi Dar Miqhat (Lost in the Crowd) by Iranian intellectual Jalal al-e Ahmad. Malcolm X’s famous autobiography was published in 1965, just a few months after both he and Al-e Ahmad had ret…
On Historical Singularity and Universal Histories
Revolutionary Journeys, Revolutionary Practice
Nikpour’s article explores the emergence of new iterations of Islamic universalism in the mid-twentieth century by examining two important 1960s texts that are rarely if ever discussed in the same context: The Autobiography of Malcolm X and a travelogue titled Khasi Dar Miqhat (Lost in the Crowd) by Iranian intellectual Jalal al-e Ahmad. Malcolm X’s famous autobiography was published in 1965, just a few months after both he and Al-e Ahmad had ret…
Revolutionary Journeys, Revolutionary Practice
Nikpour’s article explores the emergence of new iterations of Islamic universalism in the mid-twentieth century by examining two important 1960s texts that are rarely if ever discussed in the same context: The Autobiography of Malcolm X and a travelogue titled Khasi Dar Miqhat (Lost in the Crowd) by Iranian intellectual Jalal al-e Ahmad. Malcolm X’s famous autobiography was published in 1965, just a few months after both he and Al-e Ahmad had ret…
On Historical Singularity and Universal Histories
The Criminal Is the Patient, the Prison Will Be the Cure
In the late 1920s, at the same time as the centralization of Iran's legal system, the nascent Pahlavi state inaugurated a carceral system and imaginary in which modern prisons were promoted as necessary and progressive solutions to myriad social crises. In this era, Pahlavi statesmen and law enforcement officials attended conferences on policing and prisons in Europe, drawing architectures and techniques of punishment from those sources and worki…
From Fallen Women to Citizen Mothers
Modern carcerality in Iran, with its attendant systems of surveillance, policing, and mass imprisonment, was a gendered project from the outset. In turn, the new modern prisons of the Pahlavi era (1925–79) provoked gendered anxieties about seemingly rising rates of female and child criminality, the deteriorating family unit, and the inherent sin and vice of life in a modern city. In general, it is difficult to overstate the wholesale changes that…
The Incarcerated Modern
Iran's prison system is a foundational institution of Iranian political modernity. The Incarcerated Modern traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the twentieth century into a modern nation-state with over a quarter million prisoners today. In policing the line between "bad criminal" and "good citizen," the carceral system has shaped and reshaped Iranian understandings of citizenshi…
On Revolutionary Possibility in the Archive of 1979
1979 was a watershed year in Iran. On January 16, Iran's embattled monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his wife fled the country amid a mass revolutionary groundswell. On February 11, after months of escalating protests, the final vestiges of the Pahlavi monarchy crumbled, bringing to power a new political order that would soon dub itself the Islamic Republic of Iran. The success of the revolutionary movement would not be the only jolt to Iran's …
Decolonization Now
Post–World War II ushered in an era of rapid decolonization across the Global South; a period about which Ghanaian revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah exultantly wrote that European direct rule was “everywhere in retreat.” Still, those anticolonial victories were experienced unevenly across the decolonizing world, often undone by new forms of neocolonial exploitation, rising authoritarianism, and counterinsurgent violence. For many peoples, especially in…
Khomeini Kitsch
In November 1980, a twenty-nine-year-old contract worker in Hammond, Louisiana by the name of Stephen K. Clark was arrested and charged with criminal mischief for painting a thirty-foot mural of Mickey Mouse “making an obscene gesture to Iran” on the side of Sunflower supermarket. According to the store's manager, Clark had been hired to give the store a fresh coat of yellow paint before going wildly off script. The Hammond city prosecutor told t…
Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)