Excited to announce that our article “From Institutional Primacy to Cultural Embeddedness” will appear in the Journal of Biopolitics and Development. The extended abstract (in English) is already online. jbpd.uok.ac.ir/article_6407...

It is also an important reminder that “[t]he tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule.”

Today is Walter Benjamin's birthday, an important reminder that you can be unemployable for most of your life, die while trying to flee fascist persecution, and still become an entire publishing niche market decades after your death. There is hope, just not for us.

I feel so powerless over everything. From stopping genocide to managing my own pain in this chaotic world we call “modern life.” It’s getting harder and harder to find a reason to keep going.

The Iran–Israel war shattered the illusion of whiteness for many Iranians who once believed they were seen as white.

I’ll be in Tehran to support six elderly households and vulnerable people, including patients who can’t move during treatment. They once stood by me in my research; now I’ll stand by them. I have safe options. They don’t. I won’t turn away now.

Dozens of explosions shook our neighborhood in the past few hours. People poured into the streets in fear. It has been a terrifying night. Hoping for peace and safety for everyone.

Have you seen the beautiful & exciting @hetecon.bsky.social programme? Hosted by KCL 18-20 June at the Waterloo Campus. You can sign up to the conference just as an attendee as well! More info 👇 hetecon.net/2025/05/30/a...

@behnazmirzai.bsky.social's 2017 book A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran was groundbreaking. Had it been available earlier, my MA thesis would have been much richer. I look forward to reading her new book. It surely continues her vital contributions to Iranian historiography.

Designed one of my courses this semester around the theories and practices of gentrification. Student experiences made it come alive, especially through discussions of racialization in Iran and rural displacement. I didn’t expect the class to be this engaging!

@philipncohen.com reminded me to link the preprint for those without access. So, here it is: osf.io/9vdgh

Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available. Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social (also, lots of great articles are in this volume). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

This is exactly how knowledge should be shared.

International NGOs largely continue to support a Eurocentric framework for development, even as they claim to be "decolonising" their practices. @surbhikesar.bsky.social and I explain our research on the Reimagining Development podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/36yd...

Beyond "objectivity," some excuse their silence by saying, "not my expertise." A social science that fragments Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, and Political Science produces a docile subject, which is ideal for masking fear of power.

The odd thing is that quite a few Marxist economists, led by Steedman's book on Marx after Sraffa, were the only ones to take Sraffa seriously as totally undermining their key concepts (e.g. the role of Marx’s labor theory of value). [1/3]

The commentary by @ingridhk.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @devikadutt.bsky.social has become one of the most viewed articles on pecritique website in Persian. I’ve translated it — the link is pecritique.com/2024/11/16/%...

Eugenics was and continues to be a pseudoscience. The rise of white nationalism has given it new wings, and academics must push back. Thank you @nature.com for stating this so clearly.

Just joined this platform! After spending 6 years on X (Twitter), I finally decided to make the move here. I was never super active over there, or on any other social media, really. Here, I’m mostly looking forward to reading posts from people I respect, and I’m slowly starting to follow them.