Recognizing the creative political communication strategies initiated by the Iranian Green Movement in June 2009 following disputed presidential election results is essential in order to broaden the currently narrow conceptualizations and considerations of the ‘Arab spring’ and contemporary mediated protests. We consider how the Green Movement articulated alternative discursive strategies in their resistance to perceived voter fraud in Iran, leading to numerous arrests and violence. The Green Movement emerged with an imaginative civil disobedience campaign, worth exploring as a creative communication strategy toward political resistance.
{"title":"Mapping the political discourse of the Iranian Green Movement","authors":"Faegheh Shirazi, K. Wilkins","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V4I1.161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V4I1.161","url":null,"abstract":"Recognizing the creative political communication strategies initiated by the Iranian Green Movement in June 2009 following disputed presidential election results is essential in order to broaden the currently narrow conceptualizations and considerations of the ‘Arab spring’ and contemporary mediated protests. We consider how the Green Movement articulated alternative discursive strategies in their resistance to perceived voter fraud in Iran, leading to numerous arrests and violence. The Green Movement emerged with an imaginative civil disobedience campaign, worth exploring as a creative communication strategy toward political resistance.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"20 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120841206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REVIEW - Daughters of Anatolia. Dir. and prod. Halé Sofia Schatz. Ed. Maud Dillingham. 57 mns. Turkish with English subs. 2015","authors":"Joanna Bocheńska","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V4I1.167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V4I1.167","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Daughters of Anatolia. Dir. and prod. Hale Sofia Schatz. Ed. Maud Dillingham. 57 mns. Turkish with English subs. 2015","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"477 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133499575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REVIEW - Super Women. Dir. and prod. Yael Kipper and Ronen Zaretzky. 80 mns. Hebrew and Russian with English subs. 2013","authors":"G. King","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V4I1.172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V4I1.172","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Super Women. Dir. and prod. Yael Kipper and Ronen Zaretzky. 80 mns. Hebrew and Russian with English subs. 2013","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"71 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121193410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
REVIEW - Himself He Cooks. Dirs. Valerie Berteau, Philippe Witjes. 65 mns. Polymorfilms, 2012.
REVIEW - Himself He Cooks.导演Valerie Berteau、Philippe Witjes。65 分钟。Polymorfilms, 2012。
{"title":"REVIEW - Himself He Cooks. Dirs. Valérie Berteau, Philippe Witjes. 65 mns. Polymorfilms, 2012.","authors":"V. Davis","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I2.153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I2.153","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Himself He Cooks. Dirs. Valerie Berteau, Philippe Witjes. 65 mns. Polymorfilms, 2012.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126952487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
For the first two decades of the post-revolutionary period, Iranian filmmakers predominantly portrayed women as either selfless/heroic characters, willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good of a community, or sinister and selfish creatures who not only lacked any redeeming value, but were a danger to the well-being of the community. Mania Akbari’s film, 20 Fingers, made during a transitional period of post-revolutionary Iran, was a sharp departure from this norm. Neither heroic nor sinister, the female protagonist of twenty fingers is a woman whose words and acts are driven by individualistic urges. Can she thus speak to the concern of the community of women? The claim of this article is that despite the apolitical and at times seemingly frivolous nature of the female character of the film, she, through her acts and words, speaks to the concerns of many women who have long been under the yoke of patriarchal norms and institutions.
{"title":"20 Fingers: Personal or political?","authors":"Sussan Siavoshi","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I2.144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I2.144","url":null,"abstract":"For the first two decades of the post-revolutionary period, Iranian filmmakers predominantly portrayed women as either selfless/heroic characters, willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good of a community, or sinister and selfish creatures who not only lacked any redeeming value, but were a danger to the well-being of the community. Mania Akbari’s film, 20 Fingers, made during a transitional period of post-revolutionary Iran, was a sharp departure from this norm. Neither heroic nor sinister, the female protagonist of twenty fingers is a woman whose words and acts are driven by individualistic urges. Can she thus speak to the concern of the community of women? The claim of this article is that despite the apolitical and at times seemingly frivolous nature of the female character of the film, she, through her acts and words, speaks to the concerns of many women who have long been under the yoke of patriarchal norms and institutions.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128531053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REVIEW - Face Patterns. Dir. Hadi Afarideh. 34 mns. Persian with English subs. Documentary & Experimental Film Centre (DEFC), 2012.","authors":"Dido Tetley","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I2.152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I2.152","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Face Patterns. Dir. Hadi Afarideh. 34 mns. Persian with English subs. Documentary & Experimental Film Centre (DEFC), 2012.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128937908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REVIEW - Brennan, James R. Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania. 292 pp. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2012.","authors":"K. D. Thompson","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I2.146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I2.146","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Brennan, James R. Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania. 292 pp. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2012.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120936141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
For a long time, women in Georgia were involved in bringing up children and caring for families, while men were the main breadwinners and performed only a supportive role in bringing up children and managing the domestic economy. Now many women are actually breadwinners in all the meanings of this term. Such positions for contemporary Georgian women are largely due to the current socio-economic situation in the country, caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the wars in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and the civil war during this period. It was women who began to earn money for their families, while many men were unable to deal with the ‘post-war syndrome’ and lost their jobs. The problems from the early 1990s combined with high unemployment levels in the country again mainly affected men. Given these circumstances, women work hard outside the home to support their families, but also put a lot of energy in caring for the members of the family at home. They thus place their career and taking care of other members of their family at the centre of their identity, claiming that these two spheres allow them to express themselves. This allows me to state that these women possess agency. Activities of women (at home and outside) are becoming a key point of cultural production and social reproduction that allow these women to move between the household and the public sphere.
{"title":"A breadwinner or a housewife? Agency in the everyday image of the Georgian woman","authors":"Natallia Paulovich","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I2.143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I2.143","url":null,"abstract":"For a long time, women in Georgia were involved in bringing up children and caring for families, while men were the main breadwinners and performed only a supportive role in bringing up children and managing the domestic economy. Now many women are actually breadwinners in all the meanings of this term. Such positions for contemporary Georgian women are largely due to the current socio-economic situation in the country, caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the wars in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and the civil war during this period. It was women who began to earn money for their families, while many men were unable to deal with the ‘post-war syndrome’ and lost their jobs. The problems from the early 1990s combined with high unemployment levels in the country again mainly affected men. Given these circumstances, women work hard outside the home to support their families, but also put a lot of energy in caring for the members of the family at home. They thus place their career and taking care of other members of their family at the centre of their identity, claiming that these two spheres allow them to express themselves. This allows me to state that these women possess agency. Activities of women (at home and outside) are becoming a key point of cultural production and social reproduction that allow these women to move between the household and the public sphere.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122710457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
REVIEW - Leaman, Oliver. Controversies in Contemporary Islam. 230 pp. New York: Routledge, 2014.
回顾-利曼，奥利弗。《当代伊斯兰争议》，230页，纽约:劳特利奇出版社，2014年。
{"title":"REVIEW - Leaman, Oliver. Controversies in Contemporary Islam. 230 pp. New York: Routledge, 2014.","authors":"A. Belhaj","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I2.148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I2.148","url":null,"abstract":"REVIEW - Leaman, Oliver. Controversies in Contemporary Islam. 230 pp. New York: Routledge, 2014.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127777385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Research in transnational migration long neglected the study of power relations among migrants. In this paper, I explore within-group heterogeneity, viewing it as the outcome of the processes of social boundary making. How does social boundary making among migrants relate to their chances to generate capital in different local and transnational social fields? Focusing on dynamics between people identifying as Iranians and living in Hamburg, I critically discuss previous work that attempts to explain their lack of social cohesion. An ethnographic account of alliances and divisions that emerge around an Iranian cultural festival illustrates that social boundaries can constitute barriers to capital accumulation, but they can also be actively shaped in order to generate capital and overcome such limits. Through the analysis of this case study I argue that social boundary making among migrants reflects their engagement with local and global regimes of social inequality.
{"title":"Fluid identifications and persistent inequalities: Social boundary making among Iranians in Hamburg","authors":"Sonja Moghaddari","doi":"10.26581/ACME.V3I2.142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26581/ACME.V3I2.142","url":null,"abstract":"Research in transnational migration long neglected the study of power relations among migrants. In this paper, I explore within-group heterogeneity, viewing it as the outcome of the processes of social boundary making. How does social boundary making among migrants relate to their chances to generate capital in different local and transnational social fields? Focusing on dynamics between people identifying as Iranians and living in Hamburg, I critically discuss previous work that attempts to explain their lack of social cohesion. An ethnographic account of alliances and divisions that emerge around an Iranian cultural festival illustrates that social boundaries can constitute barriers to capital accumulation, but they can also be actively shaped in order to generate capital and overcome such limits. Through the analysis of this case study I argue that social boundary making among migrants reflects their engagement with local and global regimes of social inequality.","PeriodicalId":414815,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122589181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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