0736-5853/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd doi:10.1016/j.tele.2011.02.001 E-mail address: [email protected] Since the introduction of the Internet in Iran, Iranian women have used this medium not only as a means of accessing and disseminating information but also as the means of voicing their concerns about discriminatory laws and to participate in public discourse. In Iran, the Internet ...

Feminists and women’s groups around the world have been struggling to achieve some hard fought battles for equality and recognition for a very long time. Each success and each step forward has given many a reason to celebrate. But each success cannot be assumed to be complete, and “progress” is not inevitable. At specific points in time and geographic regions, strides forward in the battle towa...

the purpose of this study is to examine the meaning transformation of despotism signifier from safavid era to the rising of iranian despotism discourse in qajar era. the method is archaeology and the study is focused on the relations of the meaning transformation with discourse practices. pre-modern texts were investigated for the significance of despotism. the results suggested that these sign...

Models of Memory about the Holokaust in Ukraine Context Marginality and Marginalization Discourse There are two main models memory Ukraine: nationalist post-Soviet. After 1991, Ukrainian historiography concerning was influenced by Soviet emigration historiography. It reactive to allegations that Ukrainians anti-Semitic. In model memory, there is no space for Ukraine, it rather a strategy displa...

Work on ethnic and nationalist violence has emerged from two largely nonintersecting literatures: studies of ethnic conflict and studies of political violence. Only recently have the former begun to attend to the dynamics of violence and the latter to the dynamics of ethnicization. Since the emergent literature on ethnic violence is not structured by clearly defined theoretical oppositions, we ...

In the 2002 Turkish parliamentary election, more than half of the voters cast their ballots for a party different than the one they chose in 1999. The outcomes of these elections are analyzed at the provincial level, through a system of regression equations. The results obtained indicate that votes moved from the Virtue, Nationalist Action, Motherland and True Path parties to the Justice and De...

Following some introductory notes on methodology, this study analyzes the process of intensifying militarization, polarization, brutalization, sacralization, saturation with extreme appeals to emotions, and apocalyptic tone Hungarian political texts after 1918. It also examines ways in which National Darwinist vocabulary, evolved originally last third nineteenth century, survived World War, how...