Reading Derrida in Tehran
Between an Open Door and an Empty Sofreh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20249456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisabeth Yarbakhsh (0000-0001-8678-9425, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h7010021 |
| OpenAlex | W2793802849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 20 |
We can only begin to grasp hospitality as we enact it and yet, in the moment of enactment, hospitality eludes us. In this paper I look at the enactment of hospitality in the relationship between Iranian citizen-hosts and Afghan refugee-guests in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in order to reflect more broadly on questions of Derridean hospitality. Moving between the theoretical and the ethnographic, I forcefully bring to bear on a situation of protracted refugee displacement, a notion of hospitality that has, to a large extent, remained abstract and unanchored. The scalar shifts between the domestic and the national (so integral to Derrida’s theorising of the hospitable), are here reproduced in an examination of Iranian hospitality that simultaneously considers the juridical framework of asylum in the Islamic Republic and the domestic or homely expression of welcome, that occurs in the ushering of the guest over the threshold and the sharing of food around the sofreh
Aesthetics · Business · Ethnography · Hospitality · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Tourism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy
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The Principle of Hospitality
The Afghan Refugee in Pakistan
The hospitable city
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
The Crisis of National and Ethnic Identities in Contemporary Iran
Being Neighbors to Imam Reza
Speaking under duress
The Laws of Hospitality, Asylum Seekers and Cosmopolitan Right
Spaces of hospitality
Hostipitality
Breaking hospitality apart
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |