Manuchehr Sanadjian
Biographic Data
| ID | 3688440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuchehr Sanadjian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuchehr |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanadjian |
| SIGNATURE | SANADJIAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Identification, the exercise of democracy and the fear of the Other - the June EU referendum in the UK
The focus is the oscillation among leave voters in the EU referendum from the exercise of rights - an act of dis-identification – towards the assertion of identity as members of a British community. This was mediated by voters acting in an association of citizens calling on the equalising agency of the British people whilst claiming membership of a locally circumscribed community, perceived as injured, through entanglement with the Other prominen…
Diversity, rights or privileges? Denunciation of multiculturalism, 'political correctness' and anti-racism of the ex-Commander of Scotland Yard Ali Dizaei
The widely disseminated court verdict on the former Scotland Yard commander, Ali Dizaei, as a violent bully and a liar at the end of his first trial in February 2010, brought about a noted denunciation of multiculturalism as ‘political correctness’. The jury's decision on the abuse of power by the Iranian-born officer was used by the denunciators to condemn the politics of rights that aligned multiple ethnic and racial identities as equal. The de…
Icons vs satirical inversions
The satirical inversions of the images of the Prophet Muhammad by the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists that brought the wrath of two gunmen to their authors, projected a world in which the reader is recognised as an autonomous subject. Consequent on this autonomy is the restricted power of the author who used to derive it from the re-enactment of sacred Truth. Multiple and diverse readers, on the other hand, owe their authority from the right of the ind…
Islamic rule and the pre-Islamic blessing, the “homecoming” of the Cyrus Cylinder
A virtual game and the actual Islamic rule
Citizenship, 'rubbished' dissidents and local restoration of the dead - the execution of Luri political activists in south-western Iran
The paper's focus is a critical moment in the trajectory of the Islamic state in Iran, the trace of which was still discernible in the presidential election of 2009. It draws on ethnographic research among the Lurs of south-western Iran between 1979–1982 to examine the impact of the abolition of politics as contested representations at the centre on a ‘remote’ periphery. The end of a short-lived political activity, as a distinct form of power, in…
Fortune, excess and surrogate citizenship - the natural disaster in Burma, a short comment
This paper examines the refusal by the Burmese military junta to allow western humanitarian aid to be distributed among the survivors of the natural disaster that hit the country in May 2008. By taking part in the international relief efforts the rulers had to identify those under their rule as the victims of the ravage of fortune. In doing so the junta could identify themselves as the witness of excessive force in contrast to their widely recogn…
Female suicide and space for resentment, gender and male excess among the Lurs of South-western Iran
The article examines female suicide among the Lurs of south-western Iran where the ethnographic material was gathered during 1979–1982. The Luri men's public reaction to their female relatives’ and kinsmen's self-destruction is looked at as a refusal to authorize female ‘voluntary’ death either as a punishment or a protest. In taking poison and later setting themselves alight the Luri women were not punishing themselves for violating an honored r…
Nuclear fetishism, the fear of the 'Islamic' bomb and national identity in Iran
The paper's focus is the concurrence in the Islamic Republic of Iran between the state's enrichment of uranium, internationally feared as a potential Islamic atomic bomb, and the identification of the radio-active material by many Iranians as a national cultural object. In contrast to the Islamic virtues imposed by the state that had created an autarkic image of Iranians in the global context, nuclear technology offered them the opportunity to be…
Fear, Terror and the New Global Economy of Salvation-Global Excess and 'Suicide' Bombing in London
The article looks at the London bombing of July 2005 as a double volunteered witnessing. The four male British ‘suicide’ bombers purported to witness the plight of the victims of global excesses in places like Iraq and Palestine as Muslims and their own privileged membership of the Muslim Community (umma). The witnessing was as much a trans-national self-identification by the bombers with their Islamic faith as a counter-identification against th…
Fetishised liberty, the fear of the other and the global juridical rule in Iraq
The US-led military invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was a further development in the global economy of violence which has progressively not only made Iraqis redundant as national-political subjects but has also stripped them of civility, without which no form of power can become legitimate, and turned them into a 'disposable population'. The projection of global disorder onto Iraqi national borders made the country a testing ground for the USA to …
Multiculturalist Discourse, Esoteric Representation of Islam and the Global Anti-Terror Campaign
(2002). Multiculturalist Discourse, Esoteric Representation of Islam and the Global Anti-Terror Campaign. Social Identities: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 119-124
Books Reviewed
Witnessing an Islamic Rite of Passage and a Local/Non-Local Articulation
This paper examines power relations predicated on the recourse to a Muslim identity by the Luri inhabitants of a remote, inaccessible place in south-western Iran known for their tenuous observance of the Islamic rules propagated by the faith's gate-keepers at the centre. The Muslimhood is asserted by the Lurs as an articulation of localness within the wider national context through a ritual practice characterised by spatial paucity that facilitat…
They Got Game' Asylum Rights and Marginality in the Diaspora
(2000). 'They Got Game' Asylum Rights and Marginality in the Diaspora: The World-Cup and Iranian Exiles. Social Identities: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 143-164
Debate
An Anthology of 'the People', Place, Space and 'Home
'Home' is looked at in this paper as a space organized by a constituency whose prime function is to sustain the on-going displacement of the national onto the local. The space is regulated by rules whose temporal nature defines it in terms of destinations- sacred or profane. From graveyard to pilgrimage site, from school to work-place, space at 'home' is plotted as destinations im plying departures and arrivals. It is examined here how the recrui…
Temporality of "Home" and Spatiality of Market in Exile
From Participant to Partisan Observation
Reflexions d'un anthropologue iranien sur ses relations et la qualite de ces relations avec les Lurs de la province de Kuhgiluyeh, dont il etudiait lors d'une recherche sur le terrain les liens economiques et politiques avec le monde exterieur. Les risques de derive-ici politique-de l'observation participante
From Participant to Partisan Observation
Reflexions d'un anthropologue iranien sur ses relations et la qualite de ces relations avec les Lurs de la province de Kuhgiluyeh, dont il etudiait lors d'une recherche sur le terrain les liens economiques et politiques avec le monde exterieur. Les risques de derive-ici politique-de l'observation participante
Nuclear fetishism, the fear of the 'Islamic' bomb and national identity in Iran
The paper's focus is the concurrence in the Islamic Republic of Iran between the state's enrichment of uranium, internationally feared as a potential Islamic atomic bomb, and the identification of the radio-active material by many Iranians as a national cultural object. In contrast to the Islamic virtues imposed by the state that had created an autarkic image of Iranians in the global context, nuclear technology offered them the opportunity to be…
Fear, Terror and the New Global Economy of Salvation-Global Excess and 'Suicide' Bombing in London
The article looks at the London bombing of July 2005 as a double volunteered witnessing. The four male British ‘suicide’ bombers purported to witness the plight of the victims of global excesses in places like Iraq and Palestine as Muslims and their own privileged membership of the Muslim Community (umma). The witnessing was as much a trans-national self-identification by the bombers with their Islamic faith as a counter-identification against th…
Citizenship, 'rubbished' dissidents and local restoration of the dead - the execution of Luri political activists in south-western Iran
The paper's focus is a critical moment in the trajectory of the Islamic state in Iran, the trace of which was still discernible in the presidential election of 2009. It draws on ethnographic research among the Lurs of south-western Iran between 1979–1982 to examine the impact of the abolition of politics as contested representations at the centre on a ‘remote’ periphery. The end of a short-lived political activity, as a distinct form of power, in…
They Got Game' Asylum Rights and Marginality in the Diaspora
(2000). 'They Got Game' Asylum Rights and Marginality in the Diaspora: The World-Cup and Iranian Exiles. Social Identities: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 143-164
Temporality of "Home" and Spatiality of Market in Exile
An Anthology of 'the People', Place, Space and 'Home
'Home' is looked at in this paper as a space organized by a constituency whose prime function is to sustain the on-going displacement of the national onto the local. The space is regulated by rules whose temporal nature defines it in terms of destinations- sacred or profane. From graveyard to pilgrimage site, from school to work-place, space at 'home' is plotted as destinations im plying departures and arrivals. It is examined here how the recrui…
Fortune, excess and surrogate citizenship - the natural disaster in Burma, a short comment
This paper examines the refusal by the Burmese military junta to allow western humanitarian aid to be distributed among the survivors of the natural disaster that hit the country in May 2008. By taking part in the international relief efforts the rulers had to identify those under their rule as the victims of the ravage of fortune. In doing so the junta could identify themselves as the witness of excessive force in contrast to their widely recogn…
Female suicide and space for resentment, gender and male excess among the Lurs of South-western Iran
The article examines female suicide among the Lurs of south-western Iran where the ethnographic material was gathered during 1979–1982. The Luri men's public reaction to their female relatives’ and kinsmen's self-destruction is looked at as a refusal to authorize female ‘voluntary’ death either as a punishment or a protest. In taking poison and later setting themselves alight the Luri women were not punishing themselves for violating an honored r…
Witnessing an Islamic Rite of Passage and a Local/Non-Local Articulation
This paper examines power relations predicated on the recourse to a Muslim identity by the Luri inhabitants of a remote, inaccessible place in south-western Iran known for their tenuous observance of the Islamic rules propagated by the faith's gate-keepers at the centre. The Muslimhood is asserted by the Lurs as an articulation of localness within the wider national context through a ritual practice characterised by spatial paucity that facilitat…
Debate
Diversity, rights or privileges? Denunciation of multiculturalism, 'political correctness' and anti-racism of the ex-Commander of Scotland Yard Ali Dizaei
The widely disseminated court verdict on the former Scotland Yard commander, Ali Dizaei, as a violent bully and a liar at the end of his first trial in February 2010, brought about a noted denunciation of multiculturalism as ‘political correctness’. The jury's decision on the abuse of power by the Iranian-born officer was used by the denunciators to condemn the politics of rights that aligned multiple ethnic and racial identities as equal. The de…
Icons vs satirical inversions
The satirical inversions of the images of the Prophet Muhammad by the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists that brought the wrath of two gunmen to their authors, projected a world in which the reader is recognised as an autonomous subject. Consequent on this autonomy is the restricted power of the author who used to derive it from the re-enactment of sacred Truth. Multiple and diverse readers, on the other hand, owe their authority from the right of the ind…
Fetishised liberty, the fear of the other and the global juridical rule in Iraq
The US-led military invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was a further development in the global economy of violence which has progressively not only made Iraqis redundant as national-political subjects but has also stripped them of civility, without which no form of power can become legitimate, and turned them into a 'disposable population'. The projection of global disorder onto Iraqi national borders made the country a testing ground for the USA to …
Multiculturalist Discourse, Esoteric Representation of Islam and the Global Anti-Terror Campaign
(2002). Multiculturalist Discourse, Esoteric Representation of Islam and the Global Anti-Terror Campaign. Social Identities: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 119-124
From Participant to Partisan Observation
Reflexions d'un anthropologue iranien sur ses relations et la qualite de ces relations avec les Lurs de la province de Kuhgiluyeh, dont il etudiait lors d'une recherche sur le terrain les liens economiques et politiques avec le monde exterieur. Les risques de derive-ici politique-de l'observation participante
Temporality of "Home" and Spatiality of Market in Exile
An Anthology of 'the People', Place, Space and 'Home
'Home' is looked at in this paper as a space organized by a constituency whose prime function is to sustain the on-going displacement of the national onto the local. The space is regulated by rules whose temporal nature defines it in terms of destinations- sacred or profane. From graveyard to pilgrimage site, from school to work-place, space at 'home' is plotted as destinations im plying departures and arrivals. It is examined here how the recrui…
Debate
They Got Game' Asylum Rights and Marginality in the Diaspora
(2000). 'They Got Game' Asylum Rights and Marginality in the Diaspora: The World-Cup and Iranian Exiles. Social Identities: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 143-164
Books Reviewed
Witnessing an Islamic Rite of Passage and a Local/Non-Local Articulation
This paper examines power relations predicated on the recourse to a Muslim identity by the Luri inhabitants of a remote, inaccessible place in south-western Iran known for their tenuous observance of the Islamic rules propagated by the faith's gate-keepers at the centre. The Muslimhood is asserted by the Lurs as an articulation of localness within the wider national context through a ritual practice characterised by spatial paucity that facilitat…
Multiculturalist Discourse, Esoteric Representation of Islam and the Global Anti-Terror Campaign
(2002). Multiculturalist Discourse, Esoteric Representation of Islam and the Global Anti-Terror Campaign. Social Identities: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 119-124
Fetishised liberty, the fear of the other and the global juridical rule in Iraq
The US-led military invasion of Iraq in March 2003 was a further development in the global economy of violence which has progressively not only made Iraqis redundant as national-political subjects but has also stripped them of civility, without which no form of power can become legitimate, and turned them into a 'disposable population'. The projection of global disorder onto Iraqi national borders made the country a testing ground for the USA to …
Fear, Terror and the New Global Economy of Salvation-Global Excess and 'Suicide' Bombing in London
The article looks at the London bombing of July 2005 as a double volunteered witnessing. The four male British ‘suicide’ bombers purported to witness the plight of the victims of global excesses in places like Iraq and Palestine as Muslims and their own privileged membership of the Muslim Community (umma). The witnessing was as much a trans-national self-identification by the bombers with their Islamic faith as a counter-identification against th…
Female suicide and space for resentment, gender and male excess among the Lurs of South-western Iran
The article examines female suicide among the Lurs of south-western Iran where the ethnographic material was gathered during 1979–1982. The Luri men's public reaction to their female relatives’ and kinsmen's self-destruction is looked at as a refusal to authorize female ‘voluntary’ death either as a punishment or a protest. In taking poison and later setting themselves alight the Luri women were not punishing themselves for violating an honored r…
Nuclear fetishism, the fear of the 'Islamic' bomb and national identity in Iran
The paper's focus is the concurrence in the Islamic Republic of Iran between the state's enrichment of uranium, internationally feared as a potential Islamic atomic bomb, and the identification of the radio-active material by many Iranians as a national cultural object. In contrast to the Islamic virtues imposed by the state that had created an autarkic image of Iranians in the global context, nuclear technology offered them the opportunity to be…
Fortune, excess and surrogate citizenship - the natural disaster in Burma, a short comment
This paper examines the refusal by the Burmese military junta to allow western humanitarian aid to be distributed among the survivors of the natural disaster that hit the country in May 2008. By taking part in the international relief efforts the rulers had to identify those under their rule as the victims of the ravage of fortune. In doing so the junta could identify themselves as the witness of excessive force in contrast to their widely recogn…
A virtual game and the actual Islamic rule
Citizenship, 'rubbished' dissidents and local restoration of the dead - the execution of Luri political activists in south-western Iran
The paper's focus is a critical moment in the trajectory of the Islamic state in Iran, the trace of which was still discernible in the presidential election of 2009. It draws on ethnographic research among the Lurs of south-western Iran between 1979–1982 to examine the impact of the abolition of politics as contested representations at the centre on a ‘remote’ periphery. The end of a short-lived political activity, as a distinct form of power, in…
Islamic rule and the pre-Islamic blessing, the “homecoming” of the Cyrus Cylinder
Icons vs satirical inversions
The satirical inversions of the images of the Prophet Muhammad by the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists that brought the wrath of two gunmen to their authors, projected a world in which the reader is recognised as an autonomous subject. Consequent on this autonomy is the restricted power of the author who used to derive it from the re-enactment of sacred Truth. Multiple and diverse readers, on the other hand, owe their authority from the right of the ind…
Diversity, rights or privileges? Denunciation of multiculturalism, 'political correctness' and anti-racism of the ex-Commander of Scotland Yard Ali Dizaei
The widely disseminated court verdict on the former Scotland Yard commander, Ali Dizaei, as a violent bully and a liar at the end of his first trial in February 2010, brought about a noted denunciation of multiculturalism as ‘political correctness’. The jury's decision on the abuse of power by the Iranian-born officer was used by the denunciators to condemn the politics of rights that aligned multiple ethnic and racial identities as equal. The de…
Identification, the exercise of democracy and the fear of the Other - the June EU referendum in the UK
The focus is the oscillation among leave voters in the EU referendum from the exercise of rights - an act of dis-identification – towards the assertion of identity as members of a British community. This was mediated by voters acting in an association of citizens calling on the equalising agency of the British people whilst claiming membership of a locally circumscribed community, perceived as injured, through entanglement with the Other prominen…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (12 works) · History (8 works) · Islam (8 works) · Islamic Studies and History (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (5 works)