Manijeh Moradian
Biographic Data
| ID | 354216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manijeh Moradian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manijeh |
| FAMILY NAME | Moradian |
| SIGNATURE | MORADIAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-3013-5387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feminist Uprising in Iran and the Politics of Solidarity
This essay argues for a reorientation of transnational feminist praxis in light of the Women, Life, Freedom movement that began in Iran in September 2022. Drawing from the experiences and analyses of Iranian feminists who were at the forefront of efforts to organize a transnational feminist response, the author develops frameworks for thinking beyond the West vs. East, secular vs. religious binaries. These have not only governed the U.S.-Iran con…
Resisting authoritarianism and war: An Iranian left feminist perspective
Neda Naji, a feminist activist, researcher and former political prisoner in Iran, talks with scholar and activist Manijeh Moradian about leftist forms of Iranian feminism that are rarely heard in the western media. Naji discusses the intersections of authoritarianism and war, the challenges of organizing under extreme state repression, and the quotidian yet theoretically sophisticated ways that feminists have tried to oppose domestic and imperial…
Decolonial Diasporas: Iranian Feminist Solidarity in Global Context
This essay argues that the women, life, freedom movement should be understood as crucial site for the study of revolutionary praxis and feminist theory from which scholars and activists around the world can learn. While much attention has been given to efforts to co-opt the movement by monarchist and other “regime change” factions in diaspora, a lesser-known diasporic consequence has been the creation of Iranian feminist collectives oriented arou…
Embodying Revolution
This essay considers the 2022-23 feminist uprising in Iran through a transnational feminist lens, as part of a global revolt against patriarchal, homophobic, and transphobic state violence. After first placing the Women, Life, Freedom movement in the context of modern Iranian history, the essay analyzes the dramatic changes in revolutionary politics and consciousness that have resulted in the shift of gender and sexual liberation from the periphe…
Women's Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table
Affects of Solidarity: Remapping Asian America in Theory and Practice
This essay theorizes "affects of solidarity" as the basis for SWANA diasporic affiliations that trespass across national, ethnic and racial categories and the conventional borders of Asian American studies. Such affiliations contribute to the work of queering diaspora, making possible new orientations that defy the authenticity/assimilation binary. Japanese-American opposition to the targeting of Iranians during the 1979-1980 hostage crisis and t…
Down with the Shah: Political Racialization and the Iranian Foreign Student Revolt
While it is commonly assumed that Iranians became associated with terrorism in the American imagination in 1979, during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis, this essay explores the "political racialization" of Iranian Marxist students in the US from the late 1960s to 1979. As members of the Iranian Students Association (ISA), these young activists challenged American support for the Shah and were labeled terrorists as a result. Engaging wit…
This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States
In This Flame Within Manijeh Moradian revises conventional histories of Iranian migration to the United States as a post-1979 phenomenon characterized by the flight of pro-Shah Iranians from the Islamic Republic and recounts the experiences of Iranian foreign students who joined a global movement against US imperialism during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on archival evidence and in-depth interviews with members of the Iranian Students Association…
Queering Iranian Diasporic Cyberspace, Critiquing the Conditions of Belonging
Sima Shakhsari's Politics of Rightful Killing is the first queer feminist monograph on the Iranian diaspora, a much-needed contribution to a growing body of scholarship examining the culture, politics, and identity of Iranians living primarily in the West and their relationship to those living in Iran. As Shakhsari illustrates, debates over how Iranians should intervene in the geopolitical and ideological battles between the United States/West an…
Iranian Diasporic Possibilities: Tracing Transnational Feminist Genealogies from the Revolutionary Margins
This chapter examines the gender and sexual politics of the Iranian Students Association (ISA), the US affiliate of the Confederation of Iranian Students (National Union) (CISNU), which was the largest anti-shah opposition formation during the 1960s and 1970s. While the participation of CISNU in the creation of pan-Third Worldist solidarities has been established, Iranian foreign student activists have been left out of narratives of the emergence…
Embodying Revolution
This essay considers the 2022-23 feminist uprising in Iran through a transnational feminist lens, as part of a global revolt against patriarchal, homophobic, and transphobic state violence. After first placing the Women, Life, Freedom movement in the context of modern Iranian history, the essay analyzes the dramatic changes in revolutionary politics and consciousness that have resulted in the shift of gender and sexual liberation from the periphe…
Down with the Shah: Political Racialization and the Iranian Foreign Student Revolt
While it is commonly assumed that Iranians became associated with terrorism in the American imagination in 1979, during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis, this essay explores the "political racialization" of Iranian Marxist students in the US from the late 1960s to 1979. As members of the Iranian Students Association (ISA), these young activists challenged American support for the Shah and were labeled terrorists as a result. Engaging wit…
Iranian Diasporic Possibilities: Tracing Transnational Feminist Genealogies from the Revolutionary Margins
This chapter examines the gender and sexual politics of the Iranian Students Association (ISA), the US affiliate of the Confederation of Iranian Students (National Union) (CISNU), which was the largest anti-shah opposition formation during the 1960s and 1970s. While the participation of CISNU in the creation of pan-Third Worldist solidarities has been established, Iranian foreign student activists have been left out of narratives of the emergence…
Down with the Shah: Political Racialization and the Iranian Foreign Student Revolt
While it is commonly assumed that Iranians became associated with terrorism in the American imagination in 1979, during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis, this essay explores the "political racialization" of Iranian Marxist students in the US from the late 1960s to 1979. As members of the Iranian Students Association (ISA), these young activists challenged American support for the Shah and were labeled terrorists as a result. Engaging wit…
This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States
In This Flame Within Manijeh Moradian revises conventional histories of Iranian migration to the United States as a post-1979 phenomenon characterized by the flight of pro-Shah Iranians from the Islamic Republic and recounts the experiences of Iranian foreign students who joined a global movement against US imperialism during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on archival evidence and in-depth interviews with members of the Iranian Students Association…
Queering Iranian Diasporic Cyberspace, Critiquing the Conditions of Belonging
Sima Shakhsari's Politics of Rightful Killing is the first queer feminist monograph on the Iranian diaspora, a much-needed contribution to a growing body of scholarship examining the culture, politics, and identity of Iranians living primarily in the West and their relationship to those living in Iran. As Shakhsari illustrates, debates over how Iranians should intervene in the geopolitical and ideological battles between the United States/West an…
Affects of Solidarity: Remapping Asian America in Theory and Practice
This essay theorizes "affects of solidarity" as the basis for SWANA diasporic affiliations that trespass across national, ethnic and racial categories and the conventional borders of Asian American studies. Such affiliations contribute to the work of queering diaspora, making possible new orientations that defy the authenticity/assimilation binary. Japanese-American opposition to the targeting of Iranians during the 1979-1980 hostage crisis and t…
Embodying Revolution
This essay considers the 2022-23 feminist uprising in Iran through a transnational feminist lens, as part of a global revolt against patriarchal, homophobic, and transphobic state violence. After first placing the Women, Life, Freedom movement in the context of modern Iranian history, the essay analyzes the dramatic changes in revolutionary politics and consciousness that have resulted in the shift of gender and sexual liberation from the periphe…
Women's Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table
Resisting authoritarianism and war: An Iranian left feminist perspective
Neda Naji, a feminist activist, researcher and former political prisoner in Iran, talks with scholar and activist Manijeh Moradian about leftist forms of Iranian feminism that are rarely heard in the western media. Naji discusses the intersections of authoritarianism and war, the challenges of organizing under extreme state repression, and the quotidian yet theoretically sophisticated ways that feminists have tried to oppose domestic and imperial…
Decolonial Diasporas: Iranian Feminist Solidarity in Global Context
This essay argues that the women, life, freedom movement should be understood as crucial site for the study of revolutionary praxis and feminist theory from which scholars and activists around the world can learn. While much attention has been given to efforts to co-opt the movement by monarchist and other “regime change” factions in diaspora, a lesser-known diasporic consequence has been the creation of Iranian feminist collectives oriented arou…
Feminist Uprising in Iran and the Politics of Solidarity
This essay argues for a reorientation of transnational feminist praxis in light of the Women, Life, Freedom movement that began in Iran in September 2022. Drawing from the experiences and analyses of Iranian feminists who were at the forefront of efforts to organize a transnational feminist response, the author develops frameworks for thinking beyond the West vs. East, secular vs. religious binaries. These have not only governed the U.S.-Iran con…
Politics (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Feminism (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (4 works) · Authoritarianism (3 works)