Iran's “Self-Deprecating Modernity”: Toward Decolonizing Collective Self-Critique
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DOI: 10.1017/s0020743821000131
Abstract: Abstract Extant studies of Iranian nationalism accentuate the self-aggrandizing side of Iranian modernity, mainly achieved through, and informing, a process of otherizing certain non-Persians/Iranians, particularly the Arabs. I argue that equally important to understanding Iranian… read more here.
Keywords: self deprecating; toward decolonizing; deprecating modernity; collective self ... See more keywords