Ghoncheh Tazmini
Biographic Data
| ID | 5824632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ghoncheh Tazmini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ghoncheh |
| FAMILY NAME | Tazmini |
| SIGNATURE | TAZMINI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9276-8150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Parallel Discursive Fields in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and Iran
Iranian and Russian intellectual traditions reveal a similar discursive genealogy in relation to Western modernity. Differing in social context, historical periodization, goals, methods and scope of inquiry, Iranian and Russian political debate reflects fascinating parallels, some of which prevail today. The debate over orientation reflects contemporary Iran and Russia’s deep-rooted ambivalence towards Western norms and institutions. This study d…
Westoxication’ and resistance
This study proposes an alternative analytical framework for the interpretation of the arrest of an Iranian teenage female social media star by regime authorities in May 2018. I argue that the regime’s reaction to the youngster’s dancing was a product of a complicated historical dialectic with the West, rather than an objection to dance as a performative category. While the Iranian regime may have inherited the predominantly negative perceptions o…
To be or not to be’ (like the West)
Having passed through a labyrinth of social contradictions, both Russia and Iran have reached a point on their historical timelines where they have transcended the logic of development of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today, Russian and Iranian modernisation reflects the interaction of universal norms and practices and specific cultural traditions. As an epistemological category, modernity can no longer be enchained in the g…
The Persian–Portuguese Encounter in Hormuz
In 2015, the quincentennial commemoration of the Portuguese arrival on the island of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf (1515–1622) revealed the underlying presupposition among Iranians that the Portuguese presence on the island was the harbinger of a long-term pattern of western imperialism. This analysis questions the accuracy of this narrative by advancing a new interpretative framework that does not reduce the holding of Hormuz to simply another dark…
Defining Iran
What is Iranian national identity and how is it constructed? Shabnam Holliday tackles these questions in this aptly named book, Defining Iran. Identity functions as a framework that provides a form of conscious understanding of the self, society, culture, history and the future, and is essential to finding practical solutions to political and social dilemmas. How Iran defines its collective identity has a direct bearing on its social development …
Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran
1. Revolution and modernisation : the theoretical context -- 2. Historical patterns of modernisation from above -- 3. Modernising Romanov Russia and Pahlavi Iran -- 4. Preserving the Russian autocrat and the Iranian despot -- 5. The revolutionary movement and moment -- 6. Post-revolutionary modernisation : alternative modernities -- 7. Transcending the modernisation dilemma -- 8. Conclusion
Khatami’s Iran
To understand contemporary Irana??s notoriously complex politics, it is essential to grasp the monumental changes initiated by Mohammad Khatami. The previously little-known cleric stormed to victory in Irana??s 1997 presidential elections with nearly 70 percent of the vote, encouraging Irana??s reform movement to flourish during his eight year tenure as president. Ghoncheh Tazminia??s book offers a thought-provoking, astutely close-up yet systema…
The Islamic revival in Central Asia
During the rst months after independence in 1991, numerous scholars and commentators suggested that the de ning characteristic of the ve Central Asian republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan— was their Islamic heritage and predicted that the region would unite with the wider Muslim world to create a fundamentalist bloc. The concern for radical and fundamentalist interpretations of Islam is legitimate, as there is…
The Islamic revival in Central Asia
During the rst months after independence in 1991, numerous scholars and commentators suggested that the de ning characteristic of the ve Central Asian republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan— was their Islamic heritage and predicted that the region would unite with the wider Muslim world to create a fundamentalist bloc. The concern for radical and fundamentalist interpretations of Islam is legitimate, as there is…
The Islamic revival in Central Asia
During the rst months after independence in 1991, numerous scholars and commentators suggested that the de ning characteristic of the ve Central Asian republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan— was their Islamic heritage and predicted that the region would unite with the wider Muslim world to create a fundamentalist bloc. The concern for radical and fundamentalist interpretations of Islam is legitimate, as there is…
Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran
1. Revolution and modernisation : the theoretical context -- 2. Historical patterns of modernisation from above -- 3. Modernising Romanov Russia and Pahlavi Iran -- 4. Preserving the Russian autocrat and the Iranian despot -- 5. The revolutionary movement and moment -- 6. Post-revolutionary modernisation : alternative modernities -- 7. Transcending the modernisation dilemma -- 8. Conclusion
Khatami’s Iran
To understand contemporary Irana??s notoriously complex politics, it is essential to grasp the monumental changes initiated by Mohammad Khatami. The previously little-known cleric stormed to victory in Irana??s 1997 presidential elections with nearly 70 percent of the vote, encouraging Irana??s reform movement to flourish during his eight year tenure as president. Ghoncheh Tazminia??s book offers a thought-provoking, astutely close-up yet systema…
Defining Iran
What is Iranian national identity and how is it constructed? Shabnam Holliday tackles these questions in this aptly named book, Defining Iran. Identity functions as a framework that provides a form of conscious understanding of the self, society, culture, history and the future, and is essential to finding practical solutions to political and social dilemmas. How Iran defines its collective identity has a direct bearing on its social development …
The Persian–Portuguese Encounter in Hormuz
In 2015, the quincentennial commemoration of the Portuguese arrival on the island of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf (1515–1622) revealed the underlying presupposition among Iranians that the Portuguese presence on the island was the harbinger of a long-term pattern of western imperialism. This analysis questions the accuracy of this narrative by advancing a new interpretative framework that does not reduce the holding of Hormuz to simply another dark…
To be or not to be’ (like the West)
Having passed through a labyrinth of social contradictions, both Russia and Iran have reached a point on their historical timelines where they have transcended the logic of development of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today, Russian and Iranian modernisation reflects the interaction of universal norms and practices and specific cultural traditions. As an epistemological category, modernity can no longer be enchained in the g…
Parallel Discursive Fields in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and Iran
Iranian and Russian intellectual traditions reveal a similar discursive genealogy in relation to Western modernity. Differing in social context, historical periodization, goals, methods and scope of inquiry, Iranian and Russian political debate reflects fascinating parallels, some of which prevail today. The debate over orientation reflects contemporary Iran and Russia’s deep-rooted ambivalence towards Western norms and institutions. This study d…
Westoxication’ and resistance
This study proposes an alternative analytical framework for the interpretation of the arrest of an Iranian teenage female social media star by regime authorities in May 2018. I argue that the regime’s reaction to the youngster’s dancing was a product of a complicated historical dialectic with the West, rather than an objection to dance as a performative category. While the Iranian regime may have inherited the predominantly negative perceptions o…
Political science (7 works) · History (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)