Diaspora politics

Essays on exile and the political life of displaced communities, with particular attention to the Iranian diaspora. The work here draws on my research into Iranian student activism in postwar France. It extends that research to contemporary formations, including the uses of nostalgia in diasporic political movements.

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Diaspora politics

Iranian Neo-Monarchism and the Politics of Diasporic Longing

Royalist nostalgia in the Iranian diaspora and hawkish U.S. Iran policy operate as mutually reinforcing formations, each lending the other moral warrant and institutional durability; a genealogical reading exposes the contingency and silences that sustain this co-produced longing.

a year ago • 10 min read