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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kamran matin”
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  • Recasting Iranian Modernity

    International Relations and Social Change

    by Kamran Matin ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    Critically deploying the idea of uneven and combined development this book provides a novel non-Eurocentric account of Iran’s experience of modernity and revolution. Recasting Iranian Modernity presents the argument that Eurocentrism can be decisively overcome through a social theory that has international relations at its ontological core. This will enable a conception of history in which there ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Historical Sociology and World History

    Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée

    Edited by Alexander Anievas, Kamran Matin ...
    Series series Global Dialogues: Non Eurocentric Visions of the Global
    The concept of 'uneven and combined development' was originally coined by Leon Trotsky to theorise Tsarist Russia's distinctive experience of modernity and revolution. But it has re-emerged over the last decade or so as a burgeoning research programme within International Relations (IR) and historical sociology. It has been critically and creatively deployed in two main areas: the provision of a ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Decolonizing Queer Migration

    Iranian Voices in Exile

    by Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira, Kamran Matin, Mehran Rezaei-Toroghi, Isabel Soloaga ...
    Series series Global Migration and Social Change
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.What happens to sexual and gender identities when crossing borders under duress?This book offers an unprecedented account of how forced migration shapes the lives of queer Iranian individuals. Tracing movements from Iran through transition countries to Western resettlement, the book explores how identities are expressed, negotiated, ... Read more

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  • The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey

    Political Violence, Fear and Pain

    by Ramazan Aras ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
    The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey examines political violence, the politics of fear and the Kurdish experience of pain through an analysis of life stories, personal narratives and testimonies of Kurdish subjects in contemporary Turkey. It traces the physical and psychological impacts of the war between the state security forces and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) guerrillas in the last ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Women and Civil Society in Turkey

    Women's Movements in a Muslim Society

    by Ömer Çaha ...
    Focusing on three important interrelated issues, Women and Civil Society in Turkey challenges the classical definition, developed in the West, of civil society as an equivalent of the public sphere in which women are excluded. First it shows how feminist movements have developed a new definition of civil society to include women. Second it draws attention to the role of women in the modernization ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Arab Spring

    The End of Postcolonialism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a 'Delayed Defiance' - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Catalyze: The Rise of LGBTQ+ Movements in the Middle East & North Africa

    by Mike Figueredo ...
    Increased access to the internet in authoritarian and nominally democratic countries has been nothing short of transformative. Individuals that care about social justice causes deemed too taboo to exist are no longer forced to silently acquiesce and accept the status quo. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/non-binary and queer/questioning people in socially conservative, authoritarian regimes in ... Read more

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  • Muslim Diaspora

    Gender, Culture and Identity

    Edited by Haideh Moghissi ...
    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
    Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group’s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country.The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the Diaspora and demonstrate that identity is always constructed in relation to others. They show how religious identity in diaspora is mediated by ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

    Into the New Millennium

    by Jon W. Anderson, Paul A. Silverstein, Nefissa Naguib, Susanne Dahlgren, Cortney L. Hughes, Emilio Spadola, Suad Joseph, Dawn Chatty, Sondra Hale, Kim Shively, Lara Deeb, Christine Hegel-Cantarella, Jessica Winegar, Sebastian Maisel, Charlotte Karagueuzian, Pamela Chrabieh Badine, Seteney Shami ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Political Science of the Middle East

    Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings

    Edited by Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, Sean Yom ...
    A definitive overview of what political scientists are working on within the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab Uprisings of 2011-12 catalyzed a new wave of rigorous, deeply informed research on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In The Political Science of the Middle East, Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom present the definitive overview of this pathbreaking ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Islam in Liberalism

    by Joseph A. Massad ...
    "Demonstrates that Western liberal 'democracy', portrayed as foreign to 'Islam', necessarily serves an imperial project. . . . timely and controversial." — Politics, Religion & IdeologyIslam is often associated with words like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and homophobia, while its presumed antonyms are Christianity, the West, liberalism, individualism, freedom, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East

    by Armando Salvatore, Sari Hanafi, Kieko Obuse ...
    Series series OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
    The sociology of the Middle East has been an expanding field of inquiry since the aftermath of World War II when the Middle East became central in key sociological debates on modernization theory and their critical responses. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East connects this historical trajectory with the emergence of the sociology of Islam, inspired by Max Weber. It explores ... Read more

    $176.39 USD