Foucault in Iran: Islamic revolution after the enlightenment
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This article is published in Contemporary Political Theory.The article was published on 2018-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Political philosophy & Enlightenment.read more
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Reading Iran: American Academics and the Last Shah
TL;DR: This article traced the critical genealogy within the field as it developed, in cooperation between American and Iranian scholars, during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and analyzed two cohorts of American scholars whose political inclinations ranged from liberal reformism to revolutionary Marxism.
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Unbundling sincerity: Language, mediation, and interiority in comparative perspective
TL;DR: The HAU collection as mentioned in this paper is an exploratory group effort in promoting comparative studies of followers of different religious traditions and examines how it is attended to (or not) among ultra-Orthodox Jews in New York, Eastern Orthodox Russian women, Shi'a women in Iran and Lutheran missionaries in Papua New Guinea.
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The Passive Voice of White Supremacy: Tracing Epistemic and Discursive Violence in World History Curriculum.
TL;DR: In an increasingly diverse U.S. society, schools maintain Eurocentrism and White supremacy through curriculum, failing to give marginalized populations (and students of color in particular) space as discussed by the authors.
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The Place of the Iranian Revolution in the History of Truth: Foucault on Neoliberalism, Spirituality and Enlightenment
TL;DR: This article argued that Foucault's engagement with the Iranian Revolution was neither romantic fascist atavism nor does it presage any sort of transformation of his thought, and argued that the Iranian revolution did not lead to any transformation of Foucaults' thought.
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Literature as a tribunal: the modern Iranian prose of incarceration
TL;DR: In this article, the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose is examined and a genealogy of the emergence of prison consciousness in Iranian modernity, across both the Pahlavi and post-revolutionary periods.
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