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Iran’s New Protests Explained - Interview with Kamran Matin
No full textAfter years of economic decline, sanctions, and political repression, protests have once again spread across Iran. What began with demonstrations by bazaar merchants in Tehran over the collapse of the national currency has expanded into a broader wave of unrest across dozens of cities, with reports of deaths, arrests, and growing pressure on the state.In this in-depth interview, Mahtab Mahboub, contributor to The Amargi, speaks with Kamran Matin, Reader in International Relations at the University of Sussex, about the structural forces driving Iran’s latest protests.Drawing on Iran’s political economy, regional geopolitics, and the aftermath of recent military escalation, Matin argues that the current unrest is shaped not only by economic hardship, but by a deeper crisis of legitimacy following intensified sanctions, the suspension of nuclear diplomacy, and the fallout from the June 12-day war.In this video, we explore:Why the protests began in Tehran’s bazaar, and what that signals about the regime’s social baseHow sanctions, inflation, and diplomatic deadlock have closed off prospects for economic reliefThe long-term role of foreign policy in sustaining the Islamic Republic’s internal legitimacyHow the collapse of Iran’s regional power projection has weakened that strategyComparisons between the current protests and earlier waves in 2017, 2019, and the Jin Jiyan Azadi movementThe rise of monarchist narratives around Reza Pahlavi, and their limits inside IranWhether cracks within Iran’s security apparatus resemble early dynamics of the 1979 revolutionAbout the guest:Kamran Matin is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex and the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change. He writes extensively on Iranian, Kurdish, and Middle Eastern politics, focusing on the intersection of domestic crises and international power structures.Watch the full conversation for a grounded analysis of why Iran’s current protest wave reflects a more profound crisis within the post-revolutionary order and why its outcome remains deeply uncertain.</p
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Kobani: What’s In A Name?
No full textA guest post from Kamran Matin. Kamran is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, where he teaches modern history of the Middle East and international theory. He is the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change (Routledge, 2013), and recently of ‘Redeeming the Universal: Postcolonialism and the Inner-Life of Eurocentrism’ in the European Journal of International Relations (2013). Kamran is also the incoming co-convenor of the BISA Historical Sociology Working Group, and a management committee member at Sussex’s Centre for Advanced International Theory. He is currently working on a paper on the origins of the current crisis in the Middle East, and a larger project on the international history of the Kurdish national liberation movement.</p
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Historiography Metafiction Analysis in the Novel "Mother of the Believers' by Kamran Pasha
Full text linkThis research discussed about the limitations between facts and fiction in the historical novel which aimed to describe the events of Islamic civilization in the era of the Prophet Muhammad saw brought Islam and the characters of Aisyah ra. in the novel "Mother of The Believers" by Kamran Pasha. This research used Hutcheon theory about historiography metafiction. The research applied descriptive qualitative method in revealing the data. The researcher used note taking and color-pen as the instruments to get the valid data. The finding showed that there were thirty historical event which separated into six categories and based on the point of view Aisyah ra. in every events portrayed her characters. The researcher concluded that the author did reconstructions in the historical events of the characters of Aisyah ra, and he also tended to show two characters of her become the antagonist and protagonist which aimed to create peaceful among the group who had argued about her characters, and those historical reconstructions in the novel "Mothers of The Believers" was based on Kamran Pasha's opinio
Folk Romance in Pakistani Culture
No full textIn Pakistani folk culture, romance appears as a symbol to unfold the deep insight and metaphysical expression regarding Heer Ranja, Soni Mahiwal, Mirza Sabhian and Sussi Punu. The important point regarding these folklore romance,, the divinity of love appears as the gift of Allah, create an unseen spirit to reach to its destiny. While observing every case,, the annihilated phenomenon unfold the metaphysical trait in the form of fana- which is an Arabic word means-passing away.Pakistani folklore is comprised of folk songs, folk tales, myth, legends, customs, proverbs and traditions of the four provinces and along with tribal areas forming the modern nation of Pakistan. Every village had hundreds of tales and traditions. The Pakistani folk lore is shaped by means of language and the traditions of various ethnic groups. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA <w:LsdExcepti
Erratum: Gestational hypertensive disorders and retinal microvasculature: The Generation R Study.
Full text linkThe original article contained an error whereby the senior author, M. Kamran Ikram's name was mistakenly interchanged.
This error has now been corrected
Folk Romance in Pakistani Culture
No full textIn Pakistani folk culture, romance appears as a symbol to unfold the deep insight and metaphysical expression regarding Heer Ranja, Soni Mahiwal, Mirza Sabhian and Sussi Punu. The important point regarding these folklore romance,, the divinity of love appears as the gift of Allah, create an unseen spirit to reach to its destiny. While observing every case,, the annihilated phenomenon unfold the metaphysical trait in the form of fana- which is an Arabic word means-passing away.Pakistani folklore is comprised of folk songs, folk tales, myth, legends, customs, proverbs and traditions of the four provinces and along with tribal areas forming the modern nation of Pakistan. Every village had hundreds of tales and traditions. The Pakistani folk lore is shaped by means of language and the traditions of various ethnic groups. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA <w:LsdExcepti
Scholarly communication and open access : research communities and their publishing patterns [New Trends in Scholarly Communication : how do Authors of different research communities consider OA?]
Full text linkAt the time of the Budapest Declaration, self-archiving supporters looked like a revolutionary, "anti-commercial publishers" movement. Today, after some years debate (and technological innovation in research and scientific e-publishing), antagonist positions are able to compromise and consider the tradeoffs.
What is really changing in the Authors' attitude towards institutional or disciplinary repositories, and peer reviewed open access journals?
Many recent papers have investigated these topics. From these sources we can note that Biomedical Authors behave differently from Physicists, Astronomers and Mathematicians, who have been using open archives for such a long time. Therefore we intend to analyze these different trends in the diverse communities.
Several aspects also deserve a careful attention: the role of new OA journals in evaluation processes (i.e. their impact and citations), implementation and maintenance costs of institutional repositories, the evolution of bibliometric indicators.
We intend also to discuss the role of libraries in service innovation and e-publishing promotion. The main areas where a key role may be played are: institutional repository management and users' training, the promotion of OA journals and information about evaluation methods (both qualitative and quantitative).
We think that the transition towards new communication models may be a great opportunity that libraries have to be ready to support
ChatGPT and Death of an Author
Full text linkThe proposed piece seeks to critically explore pedagogical implication of ChatGPT, especially on students’ capacities to author a text. The piece suggests that increased reliance on the ChatGPT, while provide short term solution to produce a text, in the long term it is likely to lead to ‘death of an author’. Here the usage of the phrase is a twist to earlier usage by Barthes- which refers to ‘death of an author’ where once the text is written, it gets re-created in readers’ reception and through interpretive act and imagination. The overarching argument of the paper emphasizes that technology is not neutral, especially in a context where its opacity has risen concerns about surveillance, control, and manipulation of human behavior, and therefore its infiltration in education begs critical questioning and sensitive e-value-ation. The discussion argues that rise of AI in education should be checked and not embraced uncritically, but rather it should be critically scrutinized, debated, and scaffolded through critical theoretical, pedagogical, and ethical references to counter its hegemonic and de-humanization of learning. For empirical part, the analysis draws upon reflections generated through a focus group discussion with four undergraduate students enrolled in a Bachelors degree in Computer Science who employed use of ChatGPT in preparing their speeches in context of a humanities course. The students found ChatGPT useful in terms of composing a text/speech and saving time and efforts. However, they realized that its use caused them loss of authentic learning, imagination and suppressed self’s voice. Based on the analysis, the piece shares further insights into pedagogic implications, and suggest a pedagogical scaffolding using critical pedagogical references of relationship between technology and human/learners’ values, distinction between information, knowledge, and wisdom, application and experiential learning references, and praxis in learning
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The popular in Puerto Rico : archive and repertoire in the performance of bankarization and the identitarian
Full text linktextAt the turn of the 19th Century, Puerto Rico, like other places of the world, served as a stage for the inauguration of a new form of organization of capitalism, dominated by finance capital. I name this process: bankarization. During the 19th Century, the bankarization was made visible through the foundation of different banks; among these was Banco Popular de Puerto Rico. This dissertation examines how Banco Popular, founded in 1893, has acted as protagonist in the bankarization of Puerto Rico. It also maps how in Puerto Rico, Banco Popular, together with the government, strategically appropriates the popular/lo popular through its will to performance, thereby producing the state identification effect.
This dissertation studies the performance of Banco Popular and its intervention in three stages: 1) the economic elite, from its foundation, the different banking mergers and the construction of the ciudad bancaria. 2) the governmental, by showing how porous is the border between the public-government and the private-bank. 3) the popular, by making visible the different moments of performance that show the formation of the banca-pueblo as an effective mean to make capitalism “popular.” In addition, by paying attention to a television video series by Banco Popular that began in 1965 and serve as a strategy to produce the identification effect.
This research combines ethnography and performance analysis to generate a critique about the intervention of capital and the State in the production of the national imaginary and the assumption of a common Puerto Rican subject. It examines the particular proposal about identity and the performative means that Banco Popular chooses in its intervention to produce the identification effect. I propose that Banco Popular validates and promotes Hardt and Negri’s identitarian formula of “love of the same” by referencing the racial mix that silences, homogenizes, harmonizes and banalizes. This scenario serves to promote particular political and economic interests which in turn reproduce social relations of power.Anthropolog
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