Roxanne Varzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 663299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roxanne Varzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roxanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Varzi |
| SIGNATURE | VARZI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-1986-6029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aristotle's fieldnotes
This piece is part of a special section of hundreds for Kathleen Stewart. It upends genres, labels, and categories (beginning with Aristotle) using dyslexia and decoding to unfold boxes
Stan Brakhage and Ethnographic Praxis
Stan Brakhage (b. 1933–d. 2003) was a visual artist and filmmaker who embodied many of the theoretical tensions and pragmatic themes in cultural anthropology in the 20th century, despite not being an anthropologist and working almost totally through experiments in 16mm film. In traversing, and being claimed by, both modernist and postmodernist thinkers and artists alike, he was a creator as much influenced by the poetry of American Romanticism as…
Warring Souls
With the first Fulbright grant for research in Iran to be awarded since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Roxanne Varzi returned to the country her family left before the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on ethnographic research she conducted in Tehran between 1991 and 2000, she provides an eloquent account of the beliefs and experiences of young, middle-class, urban Iranians. As the first generation to have come of age entirely in the period since the found…
Finding Home
Reports
Keeping It Reel
Facing the Future
How do the cultural and emotional after-effects of the Iran-Iraq War influence artistic production among Iranian artists living outside of Iran? How do Iranian diaspora self-portraits act as socio-political memoirs? This article addresses these questions by looking at some examples of diaspora artists who through their art somehow remain political 'subjects' of contemporary Iran, even as they grapple with the complexities of 'being away' - if tha…
Iran’s French Revolution
It is difficult for many to grasp how and why Islam would remain a powerful form of protest against Islamic governments. Going back to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s to explore the work and lives of two important pre–Iranian Revolution thinkers, I will show how Shiite Islam came into play with postcolonial and postmodern theories to bring about the Islamic Revolution—which explains why 30 years later, Islam continues to provide a framework for prote…
Iran's Pieta
The Iran-Iraq war, which took place from 1980 to 1988, was one of the longest and bloodiest conventional wars in the history of the last century. The war was also the largest mobilization of the Iranian population and was achieved primarily by producing and promoting a culture of martyrdom based on religious themes found in Shi'i Islam. It was the war that created and consolidated what we know today as the Islamic republic of Iran. For years ther…
Mashti
Picturing Change
Iran Gardi
Other| September 01 1999 Iran Gardi Roxanne Varzi Roxanne Varzi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 557–562. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-557 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Roxanne Varzi; Iran Gardi. Public Culture 1 September 1999; 11 (3): 557–562. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-557 Download citation file: Z…
Iran's Pieta
The Iran-Iraq war, which took place from 1980 to 1988, was one of the longest and bloodiest conventional wars in the history of the last century. The war was also the largest mobilization of the Iranian population and was achieved primarily by producing and promoting a culture of martyrdom based on religious themes found in Shi'i Islam. It was the war that created and consolidated what we know today as the Islamic republic of Iran. For years ther…
Picturing Change
Iran Gardi
Other| September 01 1999 Iran Gardi Roxanne Varzi Roxanne Varzi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 557–562. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-557 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Roxanne Varzi; Iran Gardi. Public Culture 1 September 1999; 11 (3): 557–562. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-557 Download citation file: Z…
Iran Gardi
Other| September 01 1999 Iran Gardi Roxanne Varzi Roxanne Varzi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1999) 11 (3): 557–562. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-557 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Roxanne Varzi; Iran Gardi. Public Culture 1 September 1999; 11 (3): 557–562. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-557 Download citation file: Z…
Picturing Change
Mashti
Iran's Pieta
The Iran-Iraq war, which took place from 1980 to 1988, was one of the longest and bloodiest conventional wars in the history of the last century. The war was also the largest mobilization of the Iranian population and was achieved primarily by producing and promoting a culture of martyrdom based on religious themes found in Shi'i Islam. It was the war that created and consolidated what we know today as the Islamic republic of Iran. For years ther…
Iran’s French Revolution
It is difficult for many to grasp how and why Islam would remain a powerful form of protest against Islamic governments. Going back to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s to explore the work and lives of two important pre–Iranian Revolution thinkers, I will show how Shiite Islam came into play with postcolonial and postmodern theories to bring about the Islamic Revolution—which explains why 30 years later, Islam continues to provide a framework for prote…
Facing the Future
How do the cultural and emotional after-effects of the Iran-Iraq War influence artistic production among Iranian artists living outside of Iran? How do Iranian diaspora self-portraits act as socio-political memoirs? This article addresses these questions by looking at some examples of diaspora artists who through their art somehow remain political 'subjects' of contemporary Iran, even as they grapple with the complexities of 'being away' - if tha…
Keeping It Reel
Reports
Finding Home
Warring Souls
With the first Fulbright grant for research in Iran to be awarded since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Roxanne Varzi returned to the country her family left before the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on ethnographic research she conducted in Tehran between 1991 and 2000, she provides an eloquent account of the beliefs and experiences of young, middle-class, urban Iranians. As the first generation to have come of age entirely in the period since the found…
Stan Brakhage and Ethnographic Praxis
Stan Brakhage (b. 1933–d. 2003) was a visual artist and filmmaker who embodied many of the theoretical tensions and pragmatic themes in cultural anthropology in the 20th century, despite not being an anthropologist and working almost totally through experiments in 16mm film. In traversing, and being claimed by, both modernist and postmodernist thinkers and artists alike, he was a creator as much influenced by the poetry of American Romanticism as…
Aristotle's fieldnotes
This piece is part of a special section of hundreds for Kathleen Stewart. It upends genres, labels, and categories (beginning with Aristotle) using dyslexia and decoding to unfold boxes
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