Hiérarchies au sein des mouvements féministes en Iran. Marginalisation des femmes des minorités ethniques dans la production féministe académique et militante by Somayeh Rostampour

“…Hence, this mode of feminism reproduces the nationalist presuppositions of the Islamic Republic regime and thus marginalizes the social struggles of ethnic-women minorities.…”
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The Islamic Republic of Iran in Search of its Foreign Policy Identity: Revolutionary Innovation or Continuity? by N. A. Kozhanov, A. S. Bogacheva

“…The events of 1979, when the new leadership that came to power in the course of revolutionary upheavals announced the rejection of the traditions of the Shah's Iran and the building of a new "revolutionary" nation with its own special foreign policy identity, had a significant impact on the process of forming the Iranian selfhood. The article analyzes the main trends that exist in the Iranian foreign policy self-perception, in order to confirm the hypothesis that the «revolutionary experiment» did not lead to a break in the continuity in the issue of Iranian self-identification. …”
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Policy expertise and culture: the case of “civil sexuality” in Iran. by Elaheh Mohammadi, Anna Durnova

“…In the analysis of the Iranian policy debate, civil sexuality serves to show how the government normalizes women’s sexual behavior as part of Islamic culture and how it integrates this into the Iranian family-planning program. …”
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A Critical Review of the Book Iran in Five Narratives: About National Identity, Linguistic Diversity, Mother Tongue and the Issue of Turkish Language in Iran by Naser Sedghi

“…Criticizing the reductionist nationalist discourse, he considers Iranianness and national identity as a category beyond the single element of being Aryan and Persian. he believes that all Iranian ethnic groups and languages ​​such as Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, Baluchi, and Turkmen should be considered Iranian and based on that, the concept of Iran and national dignity should be redefined. …”
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Critical Evaluation of the Sources in Regional Studies of the Modern and Contemporary Art in the Islamic World by Mohammadreza Moridi

“…Fourth, books that studied the Islamic art under nationalist narratives such as Iran, Arab, or Turkey art, and fifth, books under more general headings such as “Islamic Visual Culture” or Image Policy in Islamic Countries have been studied. …”
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La banque en Iran après 1979 : enjeu de discours religieux et identitaire by Julien Pelissier

“…It is noted that the Iranian debate on the subject is organized in terms of an ethics of conviction and an ethics of responsibility – assumed to be contradictory in the Weberian world view – according to criteria variable in both nature and intensity such as religious legitimacy, economic efficiency, the nationalistic identity ... …”
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