Amir Barjasteh

Tampere University | UTA · Faculty of Social Sciences

How do authoritarian actors seek to justify their interventionist gendered policies? The study bridges the authoritarian governmentality scholarship with Epistemic Governance theory to disclose epistemic politics in interventionist policymaking. It gathers textual data from political leaders and influential actors to investigate the epistemic pract...

Iran’s “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising directed global attention toward everyday lives under the shadow of systematic injustice. Sparked by the tragic death of the Kurdish 22-year-old woman – Mahsa (Jina) Amini – in the custody of “morality police” for what is called “improper hijab” (headscarf) by the government, protestors poured onto streets for...

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...