Gholam Khiabany
Biographic Data
| ID | 655685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gholam Khiabany |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gholam |
| FAMILY NAME | Khiabany |
| SIGNATURE | KHIABANY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Settler colonialism and border regime: The overlapping narratives of slavery and Palestine
Despite imperial states tightening their borders and their rapid securitization and militarization to stop the 'flood' of migrants and asylum seekers, the reality is that borders have never been fixed. Yet borders appear as naturally given to 'home' populations. But if we move away from a mere focus on the movement of people over borders for safety and security and reframe the issue by bringing into focus the movement of borders over people, a di…
From ‘Stop the Boats’ to ‘Smash the Gangs’: Migration and securitisation in contemporary capitalism
While purporting to protect refugees, the Labour government’s new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill further criminalises asylum seekers, conflating criminal law with immigration law and equating desperate people forced to use ‘irregular routes’ to seek safety with ‘immigration criminals’ and the ‘terror threat’. The Bill proposes a range of new criminal offences and the creation of a new Border and Security Command along the lines of t…
The British state, citizenship rights and gendered folk devils: The case of Shamima Begum
The revoking of Shamima Begum’s citizenship exemplifies much of the purposes of contemporary anti-Muslim racism and underlines its significant gendered element. Both state and media actors constructed the 15-year old as a problematic other, both to justify conditional citizenship ideologically, and to use her case to strengthen and add to the framework for making it legal. This comes in a context in which British Muslims and members of the Britis…
Critiquing the Vocabularies of the Marketized University
Critique is in crisis. Spaces in the university, where critique once flourished under the banner of academic freedom, have been appropriated and hollowed out of meaning. External pressures from the failed project of privatisation of higher education in the UK result in internal pressures from a marketized model of university management that sees critical thinking as branding content to influence market share, rather than relevance for (social) sc…
The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East
International audience
After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech
As the world looked on in horror at the Paris terror attacks of January and November 2015, France found itself at the centre of a war that has split across nations and continents. The attacks set in motion a steady creep towards ever more repressive state surveillance, and have fuelled the resurgence of the far right across Europe and beyond, while leaving the left dangerously divided. These developments raise profound questions about a number of…
Liberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits
An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today. \n \nWhat does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be a highly illiberal age. Liberalism in the broader sense revolves around tolerance, progress, humanitarianism, objectivity, reason, democracy, and human ri…
Refugee crisis, imperialism and pitiless wars on the poor
According to the UN Refugee Agency, 59.5 million people around the world were forcibly displaced in 2014. The numbers are particularly high in countries which have been subject to a process of ‘redrawing the map’ by imperial powers or their regional allies. The response to the recent developments – a stage which has been dubbed as ‘refugee crisis’ – is as polarising and as problematic as before. On the one hand we have witnessed the heroic acts n…
Free speech and the market state: Race, media and democracy in new liberal times
Press freedom and free speech have again become central questions in discussions of democracy and power. A whole range of events have called into question the role of the press in the democratic process in today’s combined context of economic crisis and the free reign of market forces. From the publication of the racist cartoons in Denmark, to the Wikileaks witch hunt, to the Leveson inquiry in Britain, the rhetoric of press freedom is revealed a…
Technologies of Liberation and/or Otherwise
A year and a half after the Iranian uprising in 2009, unprecedented popular uprisings in several Arab countries provided some of the most evocative moments of power meeting its opposite, in decisive and surprising ways. In a matter of weeks, powerful hereditary/republican regimes in the region, including in Tunisia and Egypt, crumbled under relentless pressure and opposition from highly mediated “street politics.” The uprising and revolts that sh…
Beyond Metropolitanism and Nativism: Re-grounding Media Theory
Arab Revolutions and the Iranian Uprising: Similarities and Differences
A year and a half after the Iranian uprising in 2009, the unprecedented popular uprisings in several Arab countries at the beginning of 2011 provided some of the most evocative moments when power met its opposite, in decisive and surprising ways. In a matter of weeks, some of the most powerful hereditary/republican regimes in the region, such as Tunisia’s and Egypt’s, crumbled under relentless pressure and opposition from highly mediated “street …
Intellectuals, Islam and Modernity
State, culture and anti-Muslim racism
Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran
The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreading news of the protests. The internet is often celebrated as an agent of social change in countries like Iran, but most literature on the subject has st…
Uk: The Veil and the Politics of Racism
The veil has become an image of otherness, of a refusal to integrate and an example of the 'failings' of multiculturalism. As such, it has become an important symbol in the homogenisation and demonisation of Muslims in Britain. It is important to situate this 'debate' about the veil in the broader context of racism, immigration and imperialism, and neoliberal economic and political transformations. In the post-9/11 and 7/7 climate, public discuss…
Veiled bodies - naked racism: Culture, politics and race in the Sun
The context in which the current `debate' about Muslim women and the veil is taking place, in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, is that of the new orthodoxy, the `clash of civilisations'. This attempts to explain much of the world's political turmoil in terms of a clash between the (`secular modern') West and the (`traditionalist religion') Islam. The increased visibility of veiled bodies in Britain today has stirred a response that draws on long-…
Becoming Intellectual: The Blogestan and Public Political Space in the Islamic Republic
This chapter seeks to interrogate the possibility that the blogosphere is a significant space for a range of intellectual voices inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. The paper critiques naïve arguments that the blogosphere is totally oppositional by examining some of the religious discourses of ‘embedded intellectuals’. But it also critiques the idea that Iranian intellectual life must be examined solely through the prism of Islam. We explore how…
The Politics of/in Blogging in Iran
c a a n d t h e M i d d l e E a s t V o l . 2 7 , N o . 3 , 2 0 0 7 d o i 1 0 .1 2 1 5 / 1 0 8 9 2 0 1 x -2 0 0 7 -0
Mediated Politics in the Middle East: Introduction
Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity
The post-revolutionary state in Iran has tried to amalgamate “Sharia with electricity” and modernity with what it considers as “Islam”. This process has been anything but smooth and has witnessed intensive forms of political and social contestation. This paper examines key aspects of the contradictions and tensions in the Iranian media market, social stratification and competing forms of “Islamism”/nationalism by looking at the context of product…
Is there an Islamic communication? The persistence of ‘tradition’ and the lure of modernity
Since ‘culture’ has become an essential category in trying to explain the post-1989 world, a new wave of essentialist thinking has emerged in the social sciences, including media studies. One such reaction is the so-called Islamic theory of communication based on a narrow and essentialist conceptualisation of ‘authentic’ culture. While trying to take issue with Eurocentrism, such an approach still operates within an Orientalist worldview. This ar…
The Women’s Press in Contemporary Iran: Engendering the Public Sphere
De-westernizing Media Theory, or Reverse Orientalism: `Islamic Communication' as Theorized by Hamid Mowlana
De-Westernizing media theory or reverse orientalism: Islamic communication' as theorized by Hamid Mowlana
Veiled bodies - naked racism: Culture, politics and race in the Sun
The context in which the current `debate' about Muslim women and the veil is taking place, in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, is that of the new orthodoxy, the `clash of civilisations'. This attempts to explain much of the world's political turmoil in terms of a clash between the (`secular modern') West and the (`traditionalist religion') Islam. The increased visibility of veiled bodies in Britain today has stirred a response that draws on long-…
Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity
The post-revolutionary state in Iran has tried to amalgamate “Sharia with electricity” and modernity with what it considers as “Islam”. This process has been anything but smooth and has witnessed intensive forms of political and social contestation. This paper examines key aspects of the contradictions and tensions in the Iranian media market, social stratification and competing forms of “Islamism”/nationalism by looking at the context of product…
Uk: The Veil and the Politics of Racism
The veil has become an image of otherness, of a refusal to integrate and an example of the 'failings' of multiculturalism. As such, it has become an important symbol in the homogenisation and demonisation of Muslims in Britain. It is important to situate this 'debate' about the veil in the broader context of racism, immigration and imperialism, and neoliberal economic and political transformations. In the post-9/11 and 7/7 climate, public discuss…
The Politics of/in Blogging in Iran
c a a n d t h e M i d d l e E a s t V o l . 2 7 , N o . 3 , 2 0 0 7 d o i 1 0 .1 2 1 5 / 1 0 8 9 2 0 1 x -2 0 0 7 -0
Refugee crisis, imperialism and pitiless wars on the poor
According to the UN Refugee Agency, 59.5 million people around the world were forcibly displaced in 2014. The numbers are particularly high in countries which have been subject to a process of ‘redrawing the map’ by imperial powers or their regional allies. The response to the recent developments – a stage which has been dubbed as ‘refugee crisis’ – is as polarising and as problematic as before. On the one hand we have witnessed the heroic acts n…
Red Pepper: A new model for the alternative press
This article revisits Comedia's assessment and theory of the alternative press. In its examination of the radical projects and press in the 1970s and 1980s, the group pointed out some internal weaknesses and the failure of the alternative press to take advantage of some `useful' aspects of capitalism. It suggested that the alternative press, in order to escape from the ghetto of marginality, should employ mainstream economic and organizational te…
The British state, citizenship rights and gendered folk devils: The case of Shamima Begum
The revoking of Shamima Begum’s citizenship exemplifies much of the purposes of contemporary anti-Muslim racism and underlines its significant gendered element. Both state and media actors constructed the 15-year old as a problematic other, both to justify conditional citizenship ideologically, and to use her case to strengthen and add to the framework for making it legal. This comes in a context in which British Muslims and members of the Britis…
Free speech and the market state: Race, media and democracy in new liberal times
Press freedom and free speech have again become central questions in discussions of democracy and power. A whole range of events have called into question the role of the press in the democratic process in today’s combined context of economic crisis and the free reign of market forces. From the publication of the racist cartoons in Denmark, to the Wikileaks witch hunt, to the Leveson inquiry in Britain, the rhetoric of press freedom is revealed a…
State, culture and anti-Muslim racism
Becoming Intellectual: The Blogestan and Public Political Space in the Islamic Republic
This chapter seeks to interrogate the possibility that the blogosphere is a significant space for a range of intellectual voices inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. The paper critiques naïve arguments that the blogosphere is totally oppositional by examining some of the religious discourses of ‘embedded intellectuals’. But it also critiques the idea that Iranian intellectual life must be examined solely through the prism of Islam. We explore how…
Mediated Politics in the Middle East: Introduction
De-Westernizing media theory or reverse orientalism: Islamic communication' as theorized by Hamid Mowlana
Red Pepper: A new model for the alternative press
This article revisits Comedia's assessment and theory of the alternative press. In its examination of the radical projects and press in the 1970s and 1980s, the group pointed out some internal weaknesses and the failure of the alternative press to take advantage of some `useful' aspects of capitalism. It suggested that the alternative press, in order to escape from the ghetto of marginality, should employ mainstream economic and organizational te…
The Iranian Press and the Continuing Struggle Over Civil Society 1998-2000
This article maps the manner in which the press has become a key site in the ongoing struggle between conservatives and reformers inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. A more moderate president has encouraged renewed debate about civil society, often evident in new titles and newspaper content, while the forces of conservatism continue to fear and censor such debate. A new struggle around an old medium is very live in Iran.
De-westernizing Media Theory, or Reverse Orientalism: `Islamic Communication' as Theorized by Hamid Mowlana
De-Westernizing media theory or reverse orientalism: Islamic communication' as theorized by Hamid Mowlana
The Women’s Press in Contemporary Iran: Engendering the Public Sphere
Becoming Intellectual: The Blogestan and Public Political Space in the Islamic Republic
This chapter seeks to interrogate the possibility that the blogosphere is a significant space for a range of intellectual voices inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. The paper critiques naïve arguments that the blogosphere is totally oppositional by examining some of the religious discourses of ‘embedded intellectuals’. But it also critiques the idea that Iranian intellectual life must be examined solely through the prism of Islam. We explore how…
The Politics of/in Blogging in Iran
c a a n d t h e M i d d l e E a s t V o l . 2 7 , N o . 3 , 2 0 0 7 d o i 1 0 .1 2 1 5 / 1 0 8 9 2 0 1 x -2 0 0 7 -0
Mediated Politics in the Middle East: Introduction
Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity
The post-revolutionary state in Iran has tried to amalgamate “Sharia with electricity” and modernity with what it considers as “Islam”. This process has been anything but smooth and has witnessed intensive forms of political and social contestation. This paper examines key aspects of the contradictions and tensions in the Iranian media market, social stratification and competing forms of “Islamism”/nationalism by looking at the context of product…
Is there an Islamic communication? The persistence of ‘tradition’ and the lure of modernity
Since ‘culture’ has become an essential category in trying to explain the post-1989 world, a new wave of essentialist thinking has emerged in the social sciences, including media studies. One such reaction is the so-called Islamic theory of communication based on a narrow and essentialist conceptualisation of ‘authentic’ culture. While trying to take issue with Eurocentrism, such an approach still operates within an Orientalist worldview. This ar…
Veiled bodies - naked racism: Culture, politics and race in the Sun
The context in which the current `debate' about Muslim women and the veil is taking place, in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, is that of the new orthodoxy, the `clash of civilisations'. This attempts to explain much of the world's political turmoil in terms of a clash between the (`secular modern') West and the (`traditionalist religion') Islam. The increased visibility of veiled bodies in Britain today has stirred a response that draws on long-…
Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran
The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreading news of the protests. The internet is often celebrated as an agent of social change in countries like Iran, but most literature on the subject has st…
Uk: The Veil and the Politics of Racism
The veil has become an image of otherness, of a refusal to integrate and an example of the 'failings' of multiculturalism. As such, it has become an important symbol in the homogenisation and demonisation of Muslims in Britain. It is important to situate this 'debate' about the veil in the broader context of racism, immigration and imperialism, and neoliberal economic and political transformations. In the post-9/11 and 7/7 climate, public discuss…
Intellectuals, Islam and Modernity
State, culture and anti-Muslim racism
Arab Revolutions and the Iranian Uprising: Similarities and Differences
A year and a half after the Iranian uprising in 2009, the unprecedented popular uprisings in several Arab countries at the beginning of 2011 provided some of the most evocative moments when power met its opposite, in decisive and surprising ways. In a matter of weeks, some of the most powerful hereditary/republican regimes in the region, such as Tunisia’s and Egypt’s, crumbled under relentless pressure and opposition from highly mediated “street …
Beyond Metropolitanism and Nativism: Re-grounding Media Theory
Free speech and the market state: Race, media and democracy in new liberal times
Press freedom and free speech have again become central questions in discussions of democracy and power. A whole range of events have called into question the role of the press in the democratic process in today’s combined context of economic crisis and the free reign of market forces. From the publication of the racist cartoons in Denmark, to the Wikileaks witch hunt, to the Leveson inquiry in Britain, the rhetoric of press freedom is revealed a…
Technologies of Liberation and/or Otherwise
A year and a half after the Iranian uprising in 2009, unprecedented popular uprisings in several Arab countries provided some of the most evocative moments of power meeting its opposite, in decisive and surprising ways. In a matter of weeks, powerful hereditary/republican regimes in the region, including in Tunisia and Egypt, crumbled under relentless pressure and opposition from highly mediated “street politics.” The uprising and revolts that sh…
Refugee crisis, imperialism and pitiless wars on the poor
According to the UN Refugee Agency, 59.5 million people around the world were forcibly displaced in 2014. The numbers are particularly high in countries which have been subject to a process of ‘redrawing the map’ by imperial powers or their regional allies. The response to the recent developments – a stage which has been dubbed as ‘refugee crisis’ – is as polarising and as problematic as before. On the one hand we have witnessed the heroic acts n…
After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech
As the world looked on in horror at the Paris terror attacks of January and November 2015, France found itself at the centre of a war that has split across nations and continents. The attacks set in motion a steady creep towards ever more repressive state surveillance, and have fuelled the resurgence of the far right across Europe and beyond, while leaving the left dangerously divided. These developments raise profound questions about a number of…
Liberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits
An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today. \n \nWhat does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be a highly illiberal age. Liberalism in the broader sense revolves around tolerance, progress, humanitarianism, objectivity, reason, democracy, and human ri…
Critiquing the Vocabularies of the Marketized University
Critique is in crisis. Spaces in the university, where critique once flourished under the banner of academic freedom, have been appropriated and hollowed out of meaning. External pressures from the failed project of privatisation of higher education in the UK result in internal pressures from a marketized model of university management that sees critical thinking as branding content to influence market share, rather than relevance for (social) sc…
The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East
International audience
The British state, citizenship rights and gendered folk devils: The case of Shamima Begum
The revoking of Shamima Begum’s citizenship exemplifies much of the purposes of contemporary anti-Muslim racism and underlines its significant gendered element. Both state and media actors constructed the 15-year old as a problematic other, both to justify conditional citizenship ideologically, and to use her case to strengthen and add to the framework for making it legal. This comes in a context in which British Muslims and members of the Britis…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (19 works) · Law (15 works) · History (9 works) · Islam (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)