Atlantic Disjuncture: Recent Historiography of Transoceanic Diasporas, Communities, and Empires

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Diasporas and Technology Transfer

Nearly two decades ago, an important concern of development thinking and international public policy centered on the movement of individuals with high human capital from low income countries to higher income countries — a phenomenon know as ‘reverse technology transfer’ or the ‘brain drain’. Subsequently the issue dropped out of sight, edged out by the immediacy of the problems confronting deve...

Digital Diasporas Atlas Exploration and Cartography of Diasporas in Digital Networks

We will present the digital methodological chain and the tools we developed for building the Digital Diasporas Atlas which aims at mapping and analyzing the occupation of the web by diasporas. Such a chain is composed of four intertwined steps: 1) equipped web exploration and corpus building; 2) data enrichment (location, languages, textmining); 3) network visualization-manipulation and graph i...

Reductionism: Historiography and Psychology

States Systems and Universal Empires

"Civilizations" and "world systems" are alternative labels for the largest macropolitical entities that have existed in human history. These historical civilizations/world systems may be seen as having two polar types of power structure, the "states system" and the "universal empire." Each form has certain characteristic accompaniments, which may promote it, be promoted by it, or both. For stat...