Reconsidering Categories of Analysis: Possibilities for Feminist Studies of Conflict

Environmentally friendly food initiatives in Iran: between environmental citizenship and pluralizing the public sphere

“…She shows how a public human rights activist community in post-colonial Morocco was engaged in activist citizenship through 'performances of human rights' such as literary work, vigils, pilgrimages, etc. Saeidi (2012) has used this concept to explain gendered subjectivities and the nation-building process in Iran during the Iran-Iraq war from [1980][1981][1982][1983][1984][1985][1986][1987][1988]. She demonstrated how the atmosphere of isolation and personal histories of women had turned them to activist citizens who shaped an autonomous sense of belonging in conjunction with the government's state-building agenda.…”