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Retrospective from departing UM Provost Pardis Mahdavi
Get PDFThis week\u27s guest is Dr. Pardis Mahdavi, an Iranian-American professor, administrator, outgoing provost at the University of Montana, and the newly named president of the University of La Verne. Pardis is the author of multiple books and served in leadership roles in several prominent universities.
In this episode Justin asks Pardis about her path into academia, what changes to the University of Montana and higher ed more broadly she would like to see and her goals for the new role as president of the University of La Verne.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/anewangle_podcasts/1307/thumbnail.jp
BBC Persian / ادامه اعتراضات؛ نسل دیجیتال چطور تاریخ ایران را رقم میزند- صفحه دو ۷ مهر
No full textPardis Shafafi, anthropologist based in Oslo and Off-Site research associate, was invited by BBC Persian to talk about the events taking place in Iran in this fall 2022
Bodily Boundary Objects - Exploring the meaning of identity through discursive design
No full textIdentity is a manifestation of our individual characteristics and intentions. It can be found in many different forms, spanning from physical features to abstract cultural elements. However identity is rarely a passive component of our lives, but rather a powerful tool we apply to make decisions or position ourselves in the society.
Through personal identity we express, we learn, we confront, we find others, we vote, we change, we hate and we love.
Can it be designed as a medium to empower people? Can it be used proactively to prepareusfor times ofuncertainty and hardship (for example in a global Pandemic)?
The bodily boundary objects are“soft speculations” extracted from anomalies of our New Normalcy. These are designed to engage with both general public and decision makers, attempting to offer a glimpse of how design can be used as a versatile tool to find common grounds within complex topics we are facing today, by expanding and adding depth, instead of simplifying and minimizing.submittedVersio
Secretly familiar : public secrets of a post traumatic diaspora
No full textIn
1979,
the
socio-political
landscape
of
Iran
was
transformed
beyond
recognition.
After
years
of
conflict
between
the
Shah
and
a
myriad
of
political
opposition
groups,
it
seemed
that
the
people
had
indeed
triumphed
over
an
authoritarian
monarch.
As
is
now
widely
known,
their
short
lived
victory
transformed
into
a
systematic
programme
of
terror
that
turned
back
on
and
attacked
those
that
the
Islamic
Republic
deemed
contrary
to
its
values.
The
‘bloody
decade’
of
the
1980s
saw
thousands
of
executions
and
disappearances
under
the
cloak
of
the
war
with
neighbouring
Iraq.
The
records
of
these
massacres
are
still
largely
unreliable
and/or
incomplete.
The
programme
of
terror
in
question,
that
ensued
and
persists
up
to
the
present
day,
has
instigated
a
sprawling
transnational
Diaspora
with
a
familiar
but
rarely
divulged
public
secret.
My
doctoral
thesis
comprises
two
main
parts
in
relation
to
these
events.
They
are
connected
by
the
running
theme
of
alternative
narratives
of
past
violence,
and
a
post-traumatic
political
activism.
This
is
an
intimate
ethnography
that
examines
global
processes
(revolution,
Diaspora,
transnational
activism)
from
the
vantage
point
of
local
and
particular
histories
of
Lur,
former
Fadaiyan
guerilla
fighters
in
Oslo.
In
the
second
part
of
this
work,
these
histories
are
located
within
the
collective
movement
of
the
Iran
Tribunal,
a
literal
attempt
to
make
secrets
public
and
to
bring
together
subjective
experiences
of
violence
into
a
truth-‐telling
process.
Opening
up
a
new
space
for
critical
reflection,
this
study
proposes
an
alternative
lens
of
analysis
of
tumultuous
historical
processes.
With
regards
to
their
actors,
efforts
are
made
to
better
understand
how
lives
and
narratives
are
ordered
around
the
characteristic
disorder
of
violence,
fear
and
Diaspora
itself,
and
how
subjective
traumas
manifest
into
collective,
and
in
this
case
transnational,
movements.
My
ethnography
of
disordered
and
interrupted
lives
works
to
inform
studies
of
such
critical
contemporary
realities
as
well
as
to
ethnographically
introduce
the
Iranian
Diasporas’
public
secret
of
violence
for
wider
anthropological
enquiry,
and
to
contribute
towards
its
critical
analysis
Reading Aziz\u27s Notebook in 2013
Get PDFA contextual review of Aziz\u27s Notebook: At the Heart of the Iranian Revolution by Chowra Makaremi, written during the 25th year anniversary of the 1988 prison massacres in Iran.[First paragraph of article follows] Aziz’s Notebook speaks to us through the voices of the dead, with memories refracted through other memories. What ensues is a single narrative, one of absence, vio- lence, imprisonment, execution and exile pieced together from different perspectives. We are led into the lives of two sisters, whose political affiliations cause their even- tual executions in a post-revolutionary Iran. This is an Iran rife with chaotic power struggles between the (then) newly founded Islamic Republic and opposition activists
CONFERENCE ON 16/09/2019 AT STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY
No full textChowra Makaremi (CNRS, Paris), Pardis Shafafi (Senior researcher, Designit Oslo), "Violence, state formation and memory politics: An off-site ethnography of post-revolution Iran", Socialantropologiska institutionen, Stockholm University, 16 September 2019 ABSTRACT How can violence be studied when access to the field is impossible? Fieldwork is a trademark of ethnography, which is fast becoming a key practice in qualitative research across disciplines. In conflict and post-conflict zones, soci..
Introduction
No full textInternational audienceIn recent decades, questions of impunity have become key contemporary topics and major policy challenges on issues of political participation and legitimacy, both in postconflict situations and in liberal democracies. The fight against impunity has taken on a cataclysmic role in rights-driven movements, marking what Karen Engle (2015) identifies as a "turn to criminal law" and a response to issues ranging from economic injustices, to environmental devastation, and even to contexts of genocide. However, this reframing of political and legal action is accompanied by significant challenges. Among the most substantial issues are the reality that not all actors can be brought to court; that advocates often face the absence of a competent legal arena, including trained, recognized, and credible representation; and, not least, the lack of the necessary laws or political will to exercise judgment over powerful entities like governments or corporate organizations
Corrigendum: Confirmatory factor analysis and gender invariance of the Persian version of psychological control scale: association with internalizing and externalizing behavior problems (Frontiers in Psychology, (2023), 14, (1128264), 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1128264)
No full textCopyright © 2024 Habibi Asgarabad, Salehi Yegaei, Mokhtari, Izalnoo and Trejos-Castillo. cc-byIn the published article, there was an error in the correspondence details. As well as Pardis Salehi Yegaei, Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad should also be listed as a corresponding author. The complete correspondence details are shown below: *Correspondence: Pardis Salehi Yegaei Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated
Special Series « States of Impunity », Open Democracy, May 2015
No full textInternational audienceIn contexts of impunity, where conflict, state repression and the colossal challenge of taking on powerful perpetrators offer no hope for transition, how can we expect accountability to be realized? In this four-part series, a range of scholars and practitioners share their insights on the internal workings of power, truth and justice, in situations where forecasting is difficult, and conflicts are ongoing. What does justice look like outside of state-endorsed institutional processes, be they national or international? How do these truth-seeking initiatives challenge hegemonic narratives? Contributors examine contexts which tackle, head on, obstacles of impunity and denial, looking to understand how silenced but shared experiences of violence are transformed into public knowledge and acknowledgement. How and when does the fight against impunity open up an arena for action and change? This conversation builds on an international workshop, "Truth telling and truth seeking in contexts of impunity", supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and TEPSIS Research Programme
