Paola Rivetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 94004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paola Rivetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paola |
| FAMILY NAME | Rivetti |
| SIGNATURE | RIVETTI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1794-0504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Warfare for a Dying World Order
Testing ChatGPT in International Relations Classrooms
Whereas significant attention has been devoted to online/blended teaching and related tools, open GenAI chatbots and large language models and writing programs have received comparatively less attention as instruments that impact our teaching and assessment methods. The pedagogies of political science and international relations somehow trail behind in understanding and addressing them. For those who are teaching these subjects, it is of great im…
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. A Social History of Modern Tehran
The reception of Iran's state propaganda by the Italian far right
This article examines the reception of the Iranian state's authoritarian discourse by the Italian far right to interrogate the mechanisms of authoritarian diffusion from the point of view of the receiving actors. Coding Iran's state propaganda and searching for overlaps and resonances with the far right's discourse, this article argues that the receiving audience selectively translates the content coming from Iran for the Italian public with the …
Writing in Turbulent Times. Introduction to the Roundtable on the 2022–23 Iranian Protests
The editorial decision to publish a roundtable on the 2022–23 protests in Iran has come with challenges and obvious limitations due to access and immediacy. The ambition of this intervention is to offer some initial reflections and some analytical instruments in the hope that they will be useful for future publications. We also want to write in this moment because we want to register its characteristics—emotions running high, the quick detours of…
Political Convergence, Surpluses of Activism, and Genealogy
In this intervention, we discuss the ongoing protest movement and the quasi-revolutionary situation in Iran with the goal of offering contextual as well as background analysis. Our objective is to examine the current wave of revolutionary politics in the frame of a longer history, that is, the one of the “unaccomplished” 1979 revolution. We do not argue that the current movement is in continuity with the so-called Islamic revolution; rather, we a…
Thinking about social movements and obstacles to protesting globally
Books reviewed: \n \nThe Palestinian Prisoners Movement: Resistance and Disobedience \nNorman, Julie M. (London, Routledge, 2021), 146 pp. ISBN: 9780367749415 \nPalestinian Women and Popular Resistance: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Strategies \nKayali, Liyana (London, Routledge, 2020), 260 pp. ISBN: 9780367444358
Political Participation in Iran from Khatami to the Green Movement
La fabrique de la connaissance et des précarités. Réflexions à partir d’une auto-enquête dans l’Université au temps de la crise
Inspirés par la mobilisation sur les “savoirs précaires”, Emiliana Armano, Sandro Busso et Paola Rivetti réfléchissent à la manière dont les récentes réformes universitaires ont non seulement réduit les fonds et les ressources, mais ont également remodelé l’élaboration même des connaissances au sein des universités, qui sont aujourd’hui investies par un processus invasif de formatage et de quantification des expériences (qu’il s’agisse de formati…
The Museum of the Islamic Revolution and Holy Defence in Tehran
The distinction between surnames can be ambiguous, therefore to ensure accurate tagging for indexing purposes online (e.g. for PubMed entries), please check that the highlighted surnames have been correctly identified, that all names are in the correct order and spelt correctly
Race, Identity and the State After the Irish Abortion Referendum
Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings
Scrutinises the political strategies and ideological evolution of Islamist actors and forces following the Arab uprisings What role does political Islam play in the genealogy of protests as an instrument to resist neo-liberalism and authoritarian rule? How can we account for the internal conflicts among Islamist players after the 2011/2012 Arab uprisings? How can we assess the performance of Islamist parties in power? What geopolitical reconfigur…
Methodology Matters in Iran
How can scholars conduct fieldwork in an authoritarian environment, \nengaging ‘dangerous’ topics such as social movements in Iran? How can they \novercome the limitations imposed by the authoritarian state and win the trust of \nactivists? This article reflects on the knowledge that scholars produce under such \ndifficult circumstances, arguing that the deployment of non-mainstream research \npractices and methods can benefit the scholarship, ex…
Out of Space
In post-2009 Iran, not only is space gendered for a variety of reasons ranging from customs to state intervention, but also public space has become less accessible and secluded for security purposes. To securitize the state or replace a sense of trust with that of suspicion, states blend the gendering of space with the architecture of seclusion. In the United States, for instance, the separation of males and females in the prison industrial compl…
Political activism in Iran
This article examines mobilizations and activism in authoritarian settings by considering the case of Iran. By focusing on the transformation of activism since the 1990s and the green movement, it advances an explanation of how oppositional political groups have been able to survive and produce forms of resistant subjectivity despite authoritarian constraints. In order to do so, the article brings together two scholarly traditions, namely Social …
What’s Love Got to Do with it? Precarious Academic Labour Forces and the Role of Passion in Italian Universities
This article examines the role of passion among precarious labour force in the Italian academia. By relying on C. Wright Mill’s distinction between “passion as a reason” of action and “passion as a motive” to represent and discuss one’s employment condition, the article concludes that the symbolic strength of passion is correlated to its applicability both as a tool to govern recruitment in neo-liberal academia and as a strategy to fit recruitmen…
Continuity and Change before and after the Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco
While the scholarship on the Arab uprisings is increasingly complex and intellectually refined, this special issue considers an aspect that so far has failed to attract sustained scholarly attention, namely continuity and change. This introduction provides the framework underpinning the special issue as a whole and discusses all the articles composing it, while elaborating on the scientific contribution that the examination of continuity and chan…
EU–Mena Relations from the Barcelona Process to the Arab Uprisings
Irrespective of their final outcome, the Arab uprisings have changed the region profoundly with important consequences for external actors as well. Since 1995, the European Union has been extremely active in the Middle East and North Africa with a number of policies put in place to achieve often contrasting objectives. The uprisings have exposed the problems affecting these polices and have led the EU to rethink regional relations. The scholarshi…
Iranian student activism between authoritarianism and democratization
This article examines the role of student activism in enhancing or weakening democratization in authoritarian contexts, focusing on the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It contends that while numerous studies indicate that student activism has been crucial in processes of regime change, insufficient attention has been paid to the circumstances under which it contributes to strengthening authoritarian rule. The case of Iran demonstrates that …
Democracy and Secularism in Iran
The Iranian 2009 massive anti-regime protests in the wake of the contested \npresidential elections and the Arab Spring have taken the scholars of Middle Eastern Studies \nand the international community by surprise. It seems that, despite the very diverse outcomes \nof the uprisings in Iran and across the Arab world, Middle Eastern societies are in the very \nmiddle of what has been called an ‘unfinished revolution’ (Sakbani 2011). Despite the \…
Revolutionary Iran. A History of the Islamic Republic
During such an interesting period for Iranian politics, reading a book such as Axworthy's Revolutionary Iran is inspiring and helpful in clarifying a number of aspects related to Iranian politics
Empowerment without Emancipation
This article examines the centrality of political activism in the identity of Iranian refugees and investigates how they perform and incorporate it by considering the interlocked pressure of international politics, personal networks, and the assistance provided by civil society organizations. The case of Iranian political refugees in Italy and Turkey is of particular interest because of the international visibility of the Green movement, the Iran…
The Importance of being Civil Society’
Through a non-conventional understanding of civil society activism, the article provides an explanation of the relationship between the student movement and Khatami's governments in Iran. This study approaches ‘civil society’ as a space where we may observe the dynamics and exercise of power. The case study of the interactions between the Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat and Khatami's governments illustrates how civil society is not a fixed concept, but …
Iran in the 21st Century
Continuity and Change before and after the Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco
While the scholarship on the Arab uprisings is increasingly complex and intellectually refined, this special issue considers an aspect that so far has failed to attract sustained scholarly attention, namely continuity and change. This introduction provides the framework underpinning the special issue as a whole and discusses all the articles composing it, while elaborating on the scientific contribution that the examination of continuity and chan…
Iranian student activism between authoritarianism and democratization
This article examines the role of student activism in enhancing or weakening democratization in authoritarian contexts, focusing on the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It contends that while numerous studies indicate that student activism has been crucial in processes of regime change, insufficient attention has been paid to the circumstances under which it contributes to strengthening authoritarian rule. The case of Iran demonstrates that …
Political activism in Iran
This article examines mobilizations and activism in authoritarian settings by considering the case of Iran. By focusing on the transformation of activism since the 1990s and the green movement, it advances an explanation of how oppositional political groups have been able to survive and produce forms of resistant subjectivity despite authoritarian constraints. In order to do so, the article brings together two scholarly traditions, namely Social …
Race, Identity and the State After the Irish Abortion Referendum
Empowerment without Emancipation
This article examines the centrality of political activism in the identity of Iranian refugees and investigates how they perform and incorporate it by considering the interlocked pressure of international politics, personal networks, and the assistance provided by civil society organizations. The case of Iranian political refugees in Italy and Turkey is of particular interest because of the international visibility of the Green movement, the Iran…
EU–Mena Relations from the Barcelona Process to the Arab Uprisings
Irrespective of their final outcome, the Arab uprisings have changed the region profoundly with important consequences for external actors as well. Since 1995, the European Union has been extremely active in the Middle East and North Africa with a number of policies put in place to achieve often contrasting objectives. The uprisings have exposed the problems affecting these polices and have led the EU to rethink regional relations. The scholarshi…
The Importance of being Civil Society’
Through a non-conventional understanding of civil society activism, the article provides an explanation of the relationship between the student movement and Khatami's governments in Iran. This study approaches ‘civil society’ as a space where we may observe the dynamics and exercise of power. The case study of the interactions between the Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat and Khatami's governments illustrates how civil society is not a fixed concept, but …
Methodology Matters in Iran
How can scholars conduct fieldwork in an authoritarian environment, \nengaging ‘dangerous’ topics such as social movements in Iran? How can they \novercome the limitations imposed by the authoritarian state and win the trust of \nactivists? This article reflects on the knowledge that scholars produce under such \ndifficult circumstances, arguing that the deployment of non-mainstream research \npractices and methods can benefit the scholarship, ex…
Political Convergence, Surpluses of Activism, and Genealogy
In this intervention, we discuss the ongoing protest movement and the quasi-revolutionary situation in Iran with the goal of offering contextual as well as background analysis. Our objective is to examine the current wave of revolutionary politics in the frame of a longer history, that is, the one of the “unaccomplished” 1979 revolution. We do not argue that the current movement is in continuity with the so-called Islamic revolution; rather, we a…
Iran in the 21st Century
The reception of Iran's state propaganda by the Italian far right
This article examines the reception of the Iranian state's authoritarian discourse by the Italian far right to interrogate the mechanisms of authoritarian diffusion from the point of view of the receiving actors. Coding Iran's state propaganda and searching for overlaps and resonances with the far right's discourse, this article argues that the receiving audience selectively translates the content coming from Iran for the Italian public with the …
Testing ChatGPT in International Relations Classrooms
Whereas significant attention has been devoted to online/blended teaching and related tools, open GenAI chatbots and large language models and writing programs have received comparatively less attention as instruments that impact our teaching and assessment methods. The pedagogies of political science and international relations somehow trail behind in understanding and addressing them. For those who are teaching these subjects, it is of great im…
Writing in Turbulent Times. Introduction to the Roundtable on the 2022–23 Iranian Protests
The editorial decision to publish a roundtable on the 2022–23 protests in Iran has come with challenges and obvious limitations due to access and immediacy. The ambition of this intervention is to offer some initial reflections and some analytical instruments in the hope that they will be useful for future publications. We also want to write in this moment because we want to register its characteristics—emotions running high, the quick detours of…
The Museum of the Islamic Revolution and Holy Defence in Tehran
The distinction between surnames can be ambiguous, therefore to ensure accurate tagging for indexing purposes online (e.g. for PubMed entries), please check that the highlighted surnames have been correctly identified, that all names are in the correct order and spelt correctly
Out of Space
In post-2009 Iran, not only is space gendered for a variety of reasons ranging from customs to state intervention, but also public space has become less accessible and secluded for security purposes. To securitize the state or replace a sense of trust with that of suspicion, states blend the gendering of space with the architecture of seclusion. In the United States, for instance, the separation of males and females in the prison industrial compl…
Democracy and Secularism in Iran
The Iranian 2009 massive anti-regime protests in the wake of the contested \npresidential elections and the Arab Spring have taken the scholars of Middle Eastern Studies \nand the international community by surprise. It seems that, despite the very diverse outcomes \nof the uprisings in Iran and across the Arab world, Middle Eastern societies are in the very \nmiddle of what has been called an ‘unfinished revolution’ (Sakbani 2011). Despite the \…
Revolutionary Iran. A History of the Islamic Republic
During such an interesting period for Iranian politics, reading a book such as Axworthy's Revolutionary Iran is inspiring and helpful in clarifying a number of aspects related to Iranian politics
Iran in the 21st Century
Democracy and Secularism in Iran
The Iranian 2009 massive anti-regime protests in the wake of the contested \npresidential elections and the Arab Spring have taken the scholars of Middle Eastern Studies \nand the international community by surprise. It seems that, despite the very diverse outcomes \nof the uprisings in Iran and across the Arab world, Middle Eastern societies are in the very \nmiddle of what has been called an ‘unfinished revolution’ (Sakbani 2011). Despite the \…
Revolutionary Iran. A History of the Islamic Republic
During such an interesting period for Iranian politics, reading a book such as Axworthy's Revolutionary Iran is inspiring and helpful in clarifying a number of aspects related to Iranian politics
Empowerment without Emancipation
This article examines the centrality of political activism in the identity of Iranian refugees and investigates how they perform and incorporate it by considering the interlocked pressure of international politics, personal networks, and the assistance provided by civil society organizations. The case of Iranian political refugees in Italy and Turkey is of particular interest because of the international visibility of the Green movement, the Iran…
The Importance of being Civil Society’
Through a non-conventional understanding of civil society activism, the article provides an explanation of the relationship between the student movement and Khatami's governments in Iran. This study approaches ‘civil society’ as a space where we may observe the dynamics and exercise of power. The case study of the interactions between the Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat and Khatami's governments illustrates how civil society is not a fixed concept, but …
What’s Love Got to Do with it? Precarious Academic Labour Forces and the Role of Passion in Italian Universities
This article examines the role of passion among precarious labour force in the Italian academia. By relying on C. Wright Mill’s distinction between “passion as a reason” of action and “passion as a motive” to represent and discuss one’s employment condition, the article concludes that the symbolic strength of passion is correlated to its applicability both as a tool to govern recruitment in neo-liberal academia and as a strategy to fit recruitmen…
Continuity and Change before and after the Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco
While the scholarship on the Arab uprisings is increasingly complex and intellectually refined, this special issue considers an aspect that so far has failed to attract sustained scholarly attention, namely continuity and change. This introduction provides the framework underpinning the special issue as a whole and discusses all the articles composing it, while elaborating on the scientific contribution that the examination of continuity and chan…
EU–Mena Relations from the Barcelona Process to the Arab Uprisings
Irrespective of their final outcome, the Arab uprisings have changed the region profoundly with important consequences for external actors as well. Since 1995, the European Union has been extremely active in the Middle East and North Africa with a number of policies put in place to achieve often contrasting objectives. The uprisings have exposed the problems affecting these polices and have led the EU to rethink regional relations. The scholarshi…
Iranian student activism between authoritarianism and democratization
This article examines the role of student activism in enhancing or weakening democratization in authoritarian contexts, focusing on the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It contends that while numerous studies indicate that student activism has been crucial in processes of regime change, insufficient attention has been paid to the circumstances under which it contributes to strengthening authoritarian rule. The case of Iran demonstrates that …
Methodology Matters in Iran
How can scholars conduct fieldwork in an authoritarian environment, \nengaging ‘dangerous’ topics such as social movements in Iran? How can they \novercome the limitations imposed by the authoritarian state and win the trust of \nactivists? This article reflects on the knowledge that scholars produce under such \ndifficult circumstances, arguing that the deployment of non-mainstream research \npractices and methods can benefit the scholarship, ex…
Out of Space
In post-2009 Iran, not only is space gendered for a variety of reasons ranging from customs to state intervention, but also public space has become less accessible and secluded for security purposes. To securitize the state or replace a sense of trust with that of suspicion, states blend the gendering of space with the architecture of seclusion. In the United States, for instance, the separation of males and females in the prison industrial compl…
Political activism in Iran
This article examines mobilizations and activism in authoritarian settings by considering the case of Iran. By focusing on the transformation of activism since the 1990s and the green movement, it advances an explanation of how oppositional political groups have been able to survive and produce forms of resistant subjectivity despite authoritarian constraints. In order to do so, the article brings together two scholarly traditions, namely Social …
Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings
Scrutinises the political strategies and ideological evolution of Islamist actors and forces following the Arab uprisings What role does political Islam play in the genealogy of protests as an instrument to resist neo-liberalism and authoritarian rule? How can we account for the internal conflicts among Islamist players after the 2011/2012 Arab uprisings? How can we assess the performance of Islamist parties in power? What geopolitical reconfigur…
Race, Identity and the State After the Irish Abortion Referendum
Political Participation in Iran from Khatami to the Green Movement
La fabrique de la connaissance et des précarités. Réflexions à partir d’une auto-enquête dans l’Université au temps de la crise
Inspirés par la mobilisation sur les “savoirs précaires”, Emiliana Armano, Sandro Busso et Paola Rivetti réfléchissent à la manière dont les récentes réformes universitaires ont non seulement réduit les fonds et les ressources, mais ont également remodelé l’élaboration même des connaissances au sein des universités, qui sont aujourd’hui investies par un processus invasif de formatage et de quantification des expériences (qu’il s’agisse de formati…
The Museum of the Islamic Revolution and Holy Defence in Tehran
The distinction between surnames can be ambiguous, therefore to ensure accurate tagging for indexing purposes online (e.g. for PubMed entries), please check that the highlighted surnames have been correctly identified, that all names are in the correct order and spelt correctly
Thinking about social movements and obstacles to protesting globally
Books reviewed: \n \nThe Palestinian Prisoners Movement: Resistance and Disobedience \nNorman, Julie M. (London, Routledge, 2021), 146 pp. ISBN: 9780367749415 \nPalestinian Women and Popular Resistance: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Strategies \nKayali, Liyana (London, Routledge, 2020), 260 pp. ISBN: 9780367444358
Writing in Turbulent Times. Introduction to the Roundtable on the 2022–23 Iranian Protests
The editorial decision to publish a roundtable on the 2022–23 protests in Iran has come with challenges and obvious limitations due to access and immediacy. The ambition of this intervention is to offer some initial reflections and some analytical instruments in the hope that they will be useful for future publications. We also want to write in this moment because we want to register its characteristics—emotions running high, the quick detours of…
Political Convergence, Surpluses of Activism, and Genealogy
In this intervention, we discuss the ongoing protest movement and the quasi-revolutionary situation in Iran with the goal of offering contextual as well as background analysis. Our objective is to examine the current wave of revolutionary politics in the frame of a longer history, that is, the one of the “unaccomplished” 1979 revolution. We do not argue that the current movement is in continuity with the so-called Islamic revolution; rather, we a…
The reception of Iran's state propaganda by the Italian far right
This article examines the reception of the Iranian state's authoritarian discourse by the Italian far right to interrogate the mechanisms of authoritarian diffusion from the point of view of the receiving actors. Coding Iran's state propaganda and searching for overlaps and resonances with the far right's discourse, this article argues that the receiving audience selectively translates the content coming from Iran for the Italian public with the …
Testing ChatGPT in International Relations Classrooms
Whereas significant attention has been devoted to online/blended teaching and related tools, open GenAI chatbots and large language models and writing programs have received comparatively less attention as instruments that impact our teaching and assessment methods. The pedagogies of political science and international relations somehow trail behind in understanding and addressing them. For those who are teaching these subjects, it is of great im…
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. A Social History of Modern Tehran
Warfare for a Dying World Order
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