Identity among the Jews of Iran

Amanat, Abbas; Vejdani, Farzin

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“…On the other side, it highlights the local meaning-making of world cultural models, as evidenced in the case of nationhood in modern Iran. Indeed, such discursive politics in nationhood domestication have constituted further contestations on Iranian national identity [113][114][115]. That is to say, since the Islamic revolutionaries took forward one of the discursive variations, other Iranian forces appeal to different variations.…”

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Domesticating the Global Discourse of Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Iran: A Sociological Institutionalist Account

Barjasteh

2023

Societies

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This article explores how nationhood was discursively constructed in early twentieth-century Iran. While most studies concentrate on micro-national causes, this study complements this literature by drawing on domestication theory to show how globally diffused nationalist discourse was localized and tailored to the Iranian context at the turn of the twentieth century. It employs the methods of critical discourse analysis and critical metaphor analysis to investigate politics in the construction of nationhood in Iran. The data include all editorials and articles in three highly influential Iranian periodicals: Qanun, Tarbiyat, and Kaveh. By analyzing the shared premises in this data, the study highlights the transnational nature of the discourse to indicate how Iranian nationhood was embedded in world society yet adapted locally. The analysis then identifies three variations of Iranian nationhood, each woven into a particular national narrative at the time. These findings attest to the meso-level approach that addresses the discursive side of diffusion mechanisms and calls attention to the discursive politics in localization processes of nationhood. They point to new directions to understand contemporary Iran, not as an outlier or exception, but rather as discursively connected to world society. Given the discursive opportunities arising from these contentious notions of nationhood, the study calls for further critical investigations of identity-based appeals, often by authoritarian actors, in Iran’s modern politics.

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Domesticating the Global Discourse of Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Iran: A Sociological Institutionalist Account

Barjasteh

2023

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“…I argue that the complexity of Iranian national identity can be traced alongside the creation, and use of commemorative practices, symbols, and street names, as these, are adapted, modified, negotiated, and negated during crucial times of nation‐making in the pre‐ and post‐revolutionary periods. There is a growing body of literature on various aspects of Iranian identity, the construction and ‘imagination’ of the Iranian nation (Amanat & Vejdani, 2012; Marashi, 2008; Vaziri, 2013) and the politics of identity in Iran (Ansari, 2012; Asgharzadeh, 2007; Elling, 2013; Saleh, 2013), with many focusing on the role of intellectual in the modern development of the country’s national identity (Azimi, 2017; Grigor, 2009). This is, of course, unsurprising given the prominent role of the turn of twentieth‐century intellectuals in articulating the meaning and components of Iranian identity.…”

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The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity

Kashfi

2023

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With the radical political change in 1979, Iran's revolutionary state assumed the responsibility of re‐rewriting the past history to forge a new sense of belonging, a particularly collective religious (Shia) identity. It launched a complex process of forgetting and remembering to first eliminate the national (Persian), non‐religious memories and heritage, associated and celebrated by the previous regime and then establish a sense of continuity with the country's Shia past; a feeling markedly engendered with a distinguishing symbolic reservoir of Shia traditions and memories, presented in history books, literature, the media, and everyday culture.This paper seeks to examine the role of street names in this process of reconstructing a new religious (Shia) collective memory and identity with particular reference to Tehran, Iran, during the 1979‐2019 period. It seeks to analyze changes in the city's street names and analyze the widespread renaming of streets and public spaces in the city as one means of both ‘de‐commemorating’ the pre‐revolutionary regime and marking the Shia legacy and memories as the signifiers of a widespread political maneuver to articulate a new version of the past and narrative of identity since the 1979 revolution.

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Identity among the Jews of Iran

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Domesticating the Global Discourse of Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Iran: A Sociological Institutionalist Account

Domesticating the Global Discourse of Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Iran: A Sociological Institutionalist Account

The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity

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