Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought

Mirsepassi, Ali

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“…To navigate these challenges, I had to critically explore the history of the interactions between Europeans and Iranians within the political, economic, racial and intercultural educational contexts such as the Hijrat. I justified the relevance of my project to colonisation and postcolonial theory by elaborating on the fraught relationship between Iran and its major Western political adversaries (Borjian, 2013;Matin-Asgari, 2018;Mirsepassi, 2000Mirsepassi, , 2017Mirsepassi & Faraji, 2018). This fraught relationship is mainly the result of what is considered to be the colonial endeavours of Western political adversaries in the Middle East.…”

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“…Since World War 2, Iranians have been positioned at the heart of the political and ideological clashes between Iran and its Western political adversaries (Zibakalam, 2016(Zibakalam, , 2019. The outcomes of these positionings and clashes include the formation of an anti-colonial discourse, subsequent resistance and a sensitivity of many Iranians to the West (Mirsepassi, 2017;Pesaran, 2008). Being sensitised to Western colonial and hegemonic attitudes that are the product of European empires is, therefore, central to postcoloniality (Bhabha, 1994;Gandhi, 2019;Loomba, 2015;Said, 1978Said, , 1994Spivak, 1988Spivak, , 2010Spring, 2008).…”

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Contestations over Hijrat and postcoloniality

Hosseini

2022

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My PhD study explored the experiences of a cohort of Iranian doctoral candidates in New Zealand. This paper presents my response to the unexpected challenge I faced as I collected data and formed my theoretical framework. I found that Western interpretations of non-Western international students largely ignored social-cultural specificities. I navigated this challenge by drawing from the postcolonial concepts of ambivalence, uncertainty and cultural hybridity to make sense of the way Iranian doctoral candidates’ experiences in a Western university were analysed and understood. First, I conceptualised the knowledge journey of the research participants as a Hijrat ‒ an Islamic and Persian cultural metaphor that refers to the experience of departure from one’s homeland. Second, I drew from postcolonial theory to manage the West/non-West binary. This paper offers non-Western doctoral candidates and their Western supervisors an example of how cultural congruence can be understood when completing a PhD study in the West. In a general sense, it is important to acknowledge and critically explore the impacts of past socio-political experiences and practices (e.g., colonisation) and historical knowledge traditions (e.g., Islamic) on present thinking and practices.

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Contestations over Hijrat and postcoloniality

Hosseini

2022

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“…58 In his Dar Khedmat va Khianat-e Roshanfekran ('On the Service and Treason of Intellectuals'), Āl-e Ahmad extended his critique of Westernisation to secularism and liberalism, excoriating Iranian modernists for critiquing Islam and the clerical establishment. 59 In Āl-e Ahmad's assessment, of all the cultural institutions it was the education system that had become the most Westoxicated. Āl-e Ahmad lambasted Iranian scholars for disregarding the West's intrusion into Iranian affairs and for being complicit in the Western imperial project.…”

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‘Westoxication’ and resistance: the politics of dance in Iran #dancingisnotacrime

Tazmini

2021

Third World Quarterly

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This study proposes an alternative analytical framework for the interpretation of the arrest of an Iranian teenage female social media star by regime authorities in May 2018. I argue that the regime's reaction to the youngster's dancing was a product of a complicated historical dialectic with the West, rather than an objection to dance as a performative category. While the Iranian regime may have inherited the predominantly negative perceptions of the solo female dancing body from the Pahlavi era, dancing is not a crime in post-revolutionary Iran. However, dance is 'meaning in motion', and it can be inscribed and reinscribed with political, cultural and social markers -depending on the motives of the spectator. This paper argues that it was the meaning ascribed to the teen's dancing by hardline authorities that led to her arrest, and not the act of dancing itself. By historicising and framing the arrest within the discourse of 'Westoxication', this study interprets the arrest as a form of state-centric cultural resistance. The site of cultural contestation, the youngster's dancing body became the discursive and ideological terrain on which the regime repudiated Western cultural norms in defence of its own post-revolutionary standards of decency and cultural authenticity.

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“…2 Yet his National Socialism is inadequate for a full understanding of the political meaning of his thought. One need think only of the political left's appropriation of it (Hemming 2012, Rorty 1991, and his influence in Iran and other non-Western contexts (Love 2017, Mirsepassi 2017, Shari'ati 1980. 3 Thus, as with reducing Marxian political thought to Bolshevism, the old debate about Heidegger's National Socialism is too narrow a basis for assessing his enduring political import.…”

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Heidegger’s Post-Western Politics

Duff

2022

Political Research Quarterly

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The revival of ideologically motivated right-wing political agitation across the Western world demands that its intellectual sources be discovered. Martin Heidegger has occupied a position among anti-liberal, anti-modernist, and anti-Western forces across the globe comparable to that of Karl Marx on the socialist Left. Yet scholars still lack the conceptual terminology for capturing the political import of his work. The recent publication of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks provides an opportunity for rereading his central political works in order to recover their meaning for contemporary political movements. Such a rereading also illuminates the sources of Heidegger’s remarkable and misunderstood influence on the political Right. It thus explains a matter of urgent and high importance for generalist political scientists.

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Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought

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Contestations over Hijrat and postcoloniality

Contestations over Hijrat and postcoloniality

‘Westoxication’ and resistance: the politics of dance in Iran #dancingisnotacrime

Heidegger’s Post-Western Politics

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