Challenges of Southern knowledge production : reflections on/through Iran
- Focusing on the specific case of knowledge production in and about Iran, in this chapter, we discuss the risk of reproducing a Northern perspective in the attempts to produce knowledge on and through the Global South(s). We argue that such reproduction leads to cognitive suppression, further peripheralization, or even recolonization of the South(s). We also stress the lasting effects of methodological nationalism among attempts at decolonization and its political consequences, such as in the adoption of nativist discourses historically connected to the 'Islamic' Revolution by scholars focusing on the Global South(s) and in area studies concerning Iran. To avoid these effects, we suggest considering the politics of scale in our recognition and problematization of the hierarchization of Northern and Southern sites of knowledge production and their particularities.
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| Author: | Firoozeh FarvardinORCiDGND, Nader TalebiORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-838313 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-29/farvardintalebi_reflections-onthrough-iran.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-29_05 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-068-8 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-069-5 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-067-1 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | Displacing theory through the Global South / ed. by Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen ; Cultural Inquiry ; 29 |
| Publisher: | ICI Berlin Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/04/19 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2024 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2024/05/14 |
| Tag: | Decolonization; Iranian studies; Knowledge production; Nativism; Politics of scale |
| GND Keyword: | Iran; Wissensproduktion; Postcolonialismus; Nativismus; Peripherie; Minderheit |
| Page Number: | 24 |
| First Page: | 57 |
| Last Page: | 77 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-SA - Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International |
