recovering a part of the lost identity of iranian language and culture, the abbasid period is considered to have played an important role in persian language and history. the nationalist movement came to its maximum power in this period. the nationalists tried to prove the iranian talent the ancient persian civilization through a direct conflict by sword or pen. although both politics faced a s...

How do European far-right parties reconcile their long-standing nationalism with allegiance to “civilization”? Although they are certainly not contradictory, simultaneously adopting national and supranational identities requires considerable discursive maneuvering articulate clearly. In this article, I argue that the Far Right negotiates boundaries between its through two mechanisms, abstractio...

Through a discourse-theoretic approach, this paper problematises the under-theorised chameleonic quality of populism. While populist politics is often expressed as construction people against elite, argues that political should rather be sought in how populism revives itself despite (and through) constant discursive shifts. It examines interrelations between populism, identity and foreign polic...

Abstract The article analyses how population genetics has impacted on nationalist discourses across the Taiwan Straits and affected relationship between China since 1990s. In this cutting-edge science helped to construct a native-based Taiwan-centred national identity through promoting indigenous peoples’ rights, rejecting blood-based, cross-Straits nationalism, founding pan-Pacific community g...

Every year, around the arrival of Spring equinox, Iranians in Iran and diaspora will recognize a minstrel named Haji Firuz with his Nowruz jingle. The inclusion during festivities has been questioned challenged for decades; where some point out connections to anti-Blackness, others defend Firuz, arguing that face is only covered soot from fires also associated holiday. This article contextualiz...

Digital diplomacy is an efficient tool for building close relationships between countries, especially when it comes to people-to-people (P2P). This article aims explore how the Iranian embassy in Beijing uses Chinese social media and reveals motivations changes its behaviour. The main finding was that 2019 a turning point; before 2019, messages were more informative without targeting specifical...