COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Vol. XXI | Nos. 1 & 2 | 2001

The Emergence of Modernity and Nationalism in Iran
Edited by M. Tavakoli and A. R. Sheikholeslami
Guest edited by Jean-Luc Racine



Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi: Modernity, Heterotopia and Homeless Texts

A. Reza Sheikholeslami: The Patrimonial Monarchy of Nasir al-Din Shah

Homa Katouzian: Problems of Democracy and the Public Sphere in Iran

Negar Mottahedeh: Qurrat al-‘Ayn Tahirah’s Unveiling and the Massacre of the Babis

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet: The Frontier Polemics of Quarantines in Ottoman Turkey and Iran

Michael Rubin: The Telegraph and Frontier Politics in Iran

Pedram Partovi: Authorial Intention and Illocutionary Force in Jalal Al-i Ahmad’s Gharbzadigi

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Identity Politics and Global Economics

Abbas Vali: The Fragmentation of Identity and Politics in Kurdish Nationalism

Valentine Moghadam: Gender, National Identity and Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa

David Pizzo: The Museumization of Fascism

Devesh Vijay: Recent Conceptual Shifts in Left Writings on Indian Politics

Bonny Ibhawoh: Structural Adjustment, Authoritarianism and Human Rights in Africa

J.I. Dibua: Neo-Liberalism and Africa’s Development Crisis