Katja Rieck
Biographic Data
| ID | 82346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katja Rieck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katja |
| FAMILY NAME | Rieck |
| SIGNATURE | RIECK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2238-8873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Representation of Social Classes in Iranian Cinema During the Reformist Era, 2001–2005
This article discusses how social class was depicted in Iranian cinema during the Reformist Era between 2001 and 2005 when the government of Mohammad Khatami advocated economic reforms and cultural liberalization. The agenda of the Khatami government was supported by the middle and upper classes who had modernist cultural attitudes and benefitted from these political and economic reforms. The articles also analyzes how reformist ideology operated…
A Matter of Principle
In ‘On Governmentality’, Michel Foucault linked the emergence of the science of political economy to a new kind of power unique to the modern order. Departing from this observation, but integrating the wider imperial context of this historical shift by examining developments in the British Empire, the first part of this study analyses how the science of political economy was linked to the emergence of new identities, social practices as well as f…
Giving to God
Reviewed by: Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times by Amira Mittermaier Katja Rieck Amira Mittermaier, Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 248 pp. Amira Mittermaier's second book focuses on Islamic practices of charity in Egypt during and following the uprisings of 2011, providing a nuanced picture of contemporary charitable practices in Egypt against the backdrop o…
Precarious Lives
Reviewed by: Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran by Shahram Khosravi Katja Rieck Shahram Khosravi, Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 288 pp. Shahram Khosravi’s third book, following Young and Defiant in Tehran (2008) and “Illegal” Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders (2010), explores the precarious lives and social vulnerabilities of Iranian youth. Unlike his first book, …
Knowledge/Power in (Post)Colonial India 1870-1920
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries South Asian intellectuals began to develop a specifically Indian political economy – ostensibly grounded in Indigenous interests, values, norms, knowledge systems, and practices – as a response to the failure of the British colonial government to bring ‘moral and material improvement’ to the subcontinent. The article examines the relationship between colonial knowledge/power and the anti-hegemonic project…
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Knowledge/Power in (Post)Colonial India 1870-1920
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries South Asian intellectuals began to develop a specifically Indian political economy – ostensibly grounded in Indigenous interests, values, norms, knowledge systems, and practices – as a response to the failure of the British colonial government to bring ‘moral and material improvement’ to the subcontinent. The article examines the relationship between colonial knowledge/power and the anti-hegemonic project…
Precarious Lives
Reviewed by: Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran by Shahram Khosravi Katja Rieck Shahram Khosravi, Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 288 pp. Shahram Khosravi’s third book, following Young and Defiant in Tehran (2008) and “Illegal” Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders (2010), explores the precarious lives and social vulnerabilities of Iranian youth. Unlike his first book, …
A Matter of Principle
In ‘On Governmentality’, Michel Foucault linked the emergence of the science of political economy to a new kind of power unique to the modern order. Departing from this observation, but integrating the wider imperial context of this historical shift by examining developments in the British Empire, the first part of this study analyses how the science of political economy was linked to the emergence of new identities, social practices as well as f…
Giving to God
Reviewed by: Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times by Amira Mittermaier Katja Rieck Amira Mittermaier, Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 248 pp. Amira Mittermaier's second book focuses on Islamic practices of charity in Egypt during and following the uprisings of 2011, providing a nuanced picture of contemporary charitable practices in Egypt against the backdrop o…
The Representation of Social Classes in Iranian Cinema During the Reformist Era, 2001–2005
This article discusses how social class was depicted in Iranian cinema during the Reformist Era between 2001 and 2005 when the government of Mohammad Khatami advocated economic reforms and cultural liberalization. The agenda of the Khatami government was supported by the middle and upper classes who had modernist cultural attitudes and benefitted from these political and economic reforms. The articles also analyzes how reformist ideology operated…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Ideology (2 works)