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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

4 months

زنان انقلاب!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 month

اگر روزی با صحنه دستگیری مملو از خشونت یک زن مواجه شوم، گمان نمی کنم جرأت مداخله مستقیم را داشته باشم. امروز رای دادم با این امید که اشخاصی که تمام قد از این خشونت حمایت میکنند، پیروز نشوند.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 months

سه شنبه جشن فارغ التحصيلي ورودی سال ۹۹ علوم اجتماعی بود. چند سال سختی را سپری کردند و سریع بزرگ شدند. دوران تحصیلی شان با تحریم، کرونا و اعتراضات شکل گرفت. در طول این مدت، مواجهه آنها با این رخدادها نه تنها غرور آفرین، بلکه برای من کلاس درس بود. [۱]

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

An early copy arrived yesterday! Deeply grateful to @paul_dimaggio , @mlamont6 , @robertWuthnow , and @vivianazelizer for recommending my manuscript to @princetonUPress and to Meagan Levinson and Erik Beranek for seeing the process through. Available on May 23!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 month

اگر با پژوهشی آشنا هستید که نشان بدهد عدم مشارکت باعث تضعیف حاکمیت میشود، ممنون می شوم اینجا متذکر شوید.

M.R.Nikfar

@MR_Nikfar

1 month

ممکن است در موقعیت خاصی در انتخاب هم شرکت کرد، مثلاً برای اینکه برنامه‌ای را برای ترمیم مدیریت سلطه برهم زد. اکنون در آن موقعیت قرار نداریم. می‌شود دل بستن به روزنه‌گشایی در یک تنگنا را فهمید. اما اکنون رأی دادن، نیرو دادن به برنامه‌ی بهینه‌سازی مدیریت سلط است.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

6 months

کانون مطالعات محیط زیست، به همت جمعی از دانشجویان علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه تهران تاسیس گردیده است و بر آن است تا تغییرات اقلیمی ایران و جهان را از وجوه گوناگونی مورد بحث و گفت‌و‌گو قرار دهد ✊🏽 Instagram: @environmental_studies_center

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 month

رای میدهم!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

6 months

شاید یکی از مهمترین نقشهای جامعه شناسی در دانشگاه آموزش مشارکت جمعی در ساختن زندگی ای بهتر، قابل زیست تر‌ و عادلانه تر باشه. دکتر احمد شکرچی از اساتید با اخلاقی هستند که همواره درسی برای یاد دادن در این زمینه دارند. شنیدن خبر اخراج ایشان از دانشگاه بسیار دردناک بود.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

“Revolution of Things” is out. Part of its goal is to show how shifting relations between materiality and language animate different forms that social relations take, including domination, rupture & war. Here is a thread about that angle of my book [1/9]

Revolution of Things

An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in Tehran

press.princeton.edu

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

11 months

A brilliant account of the social and political life of the supernatural in Iran by @docstobar . And a timely critique of discursive approaches to explaining politico-religious modes of being!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 months

اینها از بهترین هاي کارشناسی علوم اجتماعی در هر کجای دنیا هستند. بخشی از ممتازیِ این دانشجویان به اساتید خارج از دانشگاه بر مي گردد که یا اخراج شدند یا از ابتدا به دانشگاه راه پیدا نکرده اند [۲]

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 months

و بدون تالیف ها، ترجمه ها، کلاسها و دوره های آنها، علوم اجتماعی در ایران و متمايز بودن این دانشجویان ممکن نمی شد. به اساتید خارج از دانشگاه بابت فارغ التحصيلي ورودی ۹۹ تبریک می گويم و برای دانشجویان عزیز هم آرزوی موفقیت می كنم. خسته نباشید ✊🏽✊🏽

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

شاید سخت ترین بخش پایان نامه نوشتن یک پروپوزال خوب باشد. ممنون از بچه های انسان شناسی تهران بابت فرصتی که برای صحبت در این مورد فراهم کردند!

‎انجمن علمی انسان‌شناسی (@anthropology_ut)‎ • Instagram photos and videos

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

10 months

Pleased to share my recent article with you. It’s on the relations between absence, materiality, and publicness. Had fun engaging with some of my favourite media scholars, including @wendywillems_ , Nazli Ozkan & John Durham Peters. @MCSjournal

(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence - Kusha Sefat, 2023

Recent works in media and communications studies have increasingly embedded the analysis of publicness within Science and Technology Studies (STS) and, interrel...

journals.sagepub.com

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

✊🏽✊🏽

‎انجمن علمی انسان‌شناسی (@anthropology_ut)‎ • Instagram photos and videos

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

Delighted to say that I’ve joined the Editorial Board @CulSoc and look forward to working with a wonderful team of scholars. I’ll be pushing for works that bring STS and an environmental imagination to bear on historical/cultural sociology, with an emphasis on the global south!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

Thanks to Younes Saramifar for organising this!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

6 months

Another really thoughtful review of “Revolution of Things” by anthropologist, Younes Saramifar @CulSoc

Book Review: Revolution of Things: The Islamism and Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran - Younes...

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 months

دمکراسی رادیکال صندوق رای را رمانتیسیزم زدایی میکند، اما منکر عاملیت آن نمی شود. این عاملیت گاهی نهایت توانش کمی قابل زیست‌تر کردن زندگی است. آیا چنین عاملیت کوچکی ارزش رفتن پای صندوق و «مشروعیت» بخشیدن به یک ساختار نامتغارن را دارد؟ [۱]

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

What do we lose by disregarding absent material forms and flows in our analysis of publicness? Thanx to the editors & anon reviewers @MCSjournal & my brilliant students @UnivOfTehran for helping me tackle this question. Pleased to say that my article will be forthcoming at MCS.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 months

جواب این سوال بستگی به جایی که ایستاده ایم نیز دارد. چه طبقه، جنسیت، و قومیتی را زندگی میکنیم که صندوق رای را معنادار یا بی معنا میکند؟ شاید بهتر باشد قبل از اینکه کسی را برای رای ندادن تحت فشار قرار دهیم، کمی به جایگاه خود در این ساختار نیز فکر کنیم [۲]

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

مقاله ای جدی و دقیق از همکار خوبم ⁦ @Nooh_Monavvary ⁩

Time to Go Back or Forward? Checking the Relevance of the Proletariat/Precariat Dichotomy in the...

Society - Thanks to the popular literature on the global expansion of neoliberalism, the concepts of Precariat, Precarity, and Precariousness have been accepted, in both the academic and the public...

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 months

مخصوصا اگر خارج نشین، تهران نشین، طبقه متوسط، یا مرد باشیم. نابرابریها متکثر هستند و همه به یک اندازه زمان برای نتیجه دادن سیاست رادیکال، ایجاد آلترناتیو، و تغییر ساختار نداریم.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

3 months

C.E.A.S.E.F.I.R.E.

Democracy Now!

@democracynow

3 months

Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri has just returned from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where Palestinians are still uncovering more bodies, many with evidence of torture or summary execution. "The three different mass graves are containing around 700 bodies," he says.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

9/ facts or theories but to show how we can rethink the matter of those facts and theories. It is an attempt to recover the possibilities that our dominant analytical forms have stifled and to prepare ourselves for a new critical scheme with which to scrutinize the present.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

6 months

A generous review of “Revolution of Things” by sociologist, Neema Noori @SF_Journal

Review of “Revolution of Things: The Islamism and Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran”

For its contributions to our understanding of Iranian politics, Kusha Sefat’s Revolution of Things: The Islamism And Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran fal

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

7 months

Incredible! The right-wing hijacking of Ibn Khaldun is not limited to Iran: “the new Islamic revivalist intelligentsia in the Muslim right engage with Ibn Khaldun in a selective manner that not only rejects his central critical thought but sanctions the local regimes of power.”

Sertaç Sehlikoglu

@sertacsehlikogl

7 months

My article "Genealogy, Critique, and Decolonization: Ibn Khaldun and Moving beyond Filling the Gaps" is out with @OpenResearch_EU ! @Takhayyul1 @glo_pro @UCLResearch @ucl

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

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For me, his book, Mantle of the Profit, remains the most original piece of scholarship on Iran!

Alexander Jabbari

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RIP Roy Mottahedeh (1940-2024), an absolute giant in scholarship on Iran and Islam.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

8/ War, on the other hand, is theorized as a radically contingent social field that is engendered by the constant resignification of things and terms, which impose the possibility of strategic defeat in politics on all modes of life involved. The point here is not to alter

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

“The opposite of the body is not spirit, soul, etc. It’s Mars, the inert planet.” - Latour

Tim Howles

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1. The tenth chapter of Bruno Latour's "After Lockdown" (2022) addresses the human body and its materiality. This is rare for Latour, but inspired (as he himself says) by his own experience of pancreatic cancer and its difficult treatment.

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Kusha Sefat

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1 year

1/ The point of the new materialism was never to construct endless networks/assemblages/constellations that connect humans to increasingly more nonhumans at the expense of the critical analyses of power. Rather its critical goal is to understand how asymmetrical social relations

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

A beautifully crafted piece of scholarship by Younes Saramifar on martyrdom in Iran as a concrete-abstract ecology! Check it out.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

6/ at the intersection of materiality and language. Domination, it argues, emerge as a unique field when relations between words and their material referents become stable at the level of multitudes, foreclosing alternative referential systems and muffling public processes of

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

Very brilliant book, indeed!

Blake Atwood

@BlakeRAtwood

1 year

While researching this book, I heard so many amazing stories about people’s experiences with the underground world of videocassettes in Iran. My priority as a writer was to foreground those stories and let them narrate this exceptional period in Iranian history.

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Kusha Sefat

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1 year

4/ better understand how their merger permeates politics. The book traces this dynamism by reconstructing the political history of revolutionary Tehran at the intersection of things and terms. It shows that the different confluences of the material and linguistic worlds have

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 years

Pleased to say that my book will be published in May. But I’d like to share a few extracts with you before then. While the book is primarily engaged with various debates in sociology, anthropology, IR, and media studies,

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

7/ resignification for that reason. Rupture is theorized as a different field that is formed by means of the rapid substitutions of things and terms, which destabilize relations between signs and their material referents and unravel the dominant referential system.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

5/ brought about qualitatively distinct social fields, with each affording and foreclosing unique possibilities for public action in Tehran. Bringing this history to bear on the canons of social theory and critical war studies, the book then rethinks domination, rupture, and war

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

@docstobar Thank you brother for consistently pointing me in the right direction, from an awesome reading list during my 1st year of grad school to showing me how crafting a book proposal in done. Been a blessing to have you around!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

2/ are engendered and sustained by generative material forms that circulate globally and link international processes such as the global flow of capital, ruination, and geopolitics to the “local.” At the same time, there is no way of speaking about materiality that is

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

3/ outside of language. And since language is not simply a tool of power but a form that power takes, the more we speak of an object, the more that objects comes into formation. It is important, then, to establish a dynamism between materiality and language that enables us to

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

4 months

@RogueChieftan Would u mind sharing ur syllabus?

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 years

Hope you’ll find the discussion useful!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

@BlakeRAtwood Looking forward to your feedback, and if course your brilliant forthcoming article on materiality/work in Tehran!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

9 months

@professor_sud “Darbar historians...” That was pretty good :))

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

6 months

@SF_Journal Grateful to @ro_materialgirl for her wonderful & in-depth review of my book @H_Mat_Culture !

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

4 months

@caitoz Excellent point - for there to be war, both sides must face the possibility of defeat!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 years

the extract available in the link below is in conversation with the field of Iranian Studies. It aims to build on the incredible work produced by some of the most critical and reflective scholars in the field, including one of my favorite historians, Naghmeh Sohrabi.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

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@raulpacheco

Things and Terms: Relations Between Materiality, Language, and Politics in Post-revolutionary Iran

Abstract. Departing from the canons of the cultural and material turns, this paper emphasizes the shortcomings that each body of work has shown in addressi

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 years

Tofigh has been conducting the longest running postcolonial research program in Tehran and has trained some of the most talented historians and sociologists in Iran.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

7 months

@yrlsoc In case you’re interested in relations between Islamism & materiality in Iran:

Revolution of Things

An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in Tehran

press.princeton.edu

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

@docstobar بخش مربوط به حقوق آمریکا خییییلی مهمه :)

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 years

How are Euro-centric forms of historicism – the hegemonic idea that progress begins in the West and spreads elsewhere – lived and made sense of by many in Iran? It partially entails the perception of moving from a primeval past to a modern future that is akin to Europe.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

5 months

@hamedabdi البته چه در کتاب و چه در مقاله، موضوع فقط این نیست که ایدیولوژی با به دست گرفتن قدرت به چیزها حمله ور میشود. نکته ای که خواستم نشان بدهم این است که چجوری روابط متغیر چیزها و الفاظ ایدیولژیها و قدرتهای متفاوتی تولید میکنن!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

7 months

@transit_star @Nooh_Monavvary

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

10 months

@alexxr97_ I never understand how editors allowed malicious reviews to be passed on to writers. Part of the job should be to impede that!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

5 months

@DrKatieGaddini @britsoci Thank you, Katie ♥️♥️

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 months

@EskandarSadeghi Thank you, Eskandar jan. Means a lot coming from you!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

27 days

@EskandarSadeghi @OneworldNews Many congrats! Been wanting to familiarise myself with Jalal so this is really good news.

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

2 years

A major authority on the Middle East, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is another one of my favorite writers. His latest book, “What is Iran” (see link below) is an innovative exploration of the ideational ways in which Iran has been constructed and received. It provides a reflective

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

@mh_faraji Congrats brother!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

1 year

@BlakeRAtwood Right on ✊🏽

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Kusha Sefat

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7 months

@CjvHenderson But not surprising!

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Kusha Sefat

@KushaSefat

7 months

@sertacsehlikogl @OpenResearch_EU @Takhayyul1 @glo_pro @UCLResearch @ucl Congrates Sertac - looking forward to reading it!

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1 year

@sana_xawosch Great piece and great presentation today ✊🏽✊🏽

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Kusha Sefat

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1 year

@isnki Thank you 🙏🏽

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1 year

@BlakeRAtwood @clairescooley Brilliant! Looking forward to reading this.

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Kusha Sefat

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4 months

@AliVaez This is a good time to also reflect on your own analyses over the past few weeks; gauge what you got right, which parts were less accurate, and which parts bordered on psyops.

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