Reyhaneh Javadi

This symposium on the sociology of Iran emerges at a moment when both the practice and the imagination of sociology are under extraordinary pressure. The Iranian sociological community – long animated by debates over its public role – now navigates an increasingly constricted terrain. Political repression, economic precarity, the punitive effects of global sanctions, and restrictive mobility and visa regimes have collectively thinned and unsettled...

External, domestic, and international political and economic forces have long shaped university teaching and research, often with both constructive and detrimental effects. In recent decades, underfunding, neoliberal funding models, and the politicization of teaching and research have forced universities in many countries to prioritize vocational training as well as research that is aligned with state or private sector priorities. On the educational front...

This roundtable brings together six sociologists working on Iran, situated within distinct academic fields and institutional contexts across varied geopolitical locations. While united by their disciplinary training in sociology, the contributors bring divergent positionalities shaped by their locations within and outside Iran, producing knowledge across national, linguistic, and institutional boundaries. The roundtable engages three key methodological questions...

During the translation of the Japanese team’s introduction (GD2.3), when I was reading the degrees and the research areas – remembering the Paulista team – all I was thinking was “Heavens! What we are doing among all of these PhDs and professors? We are just a bunch of kids!” That’s really who we are! A group of interested (very) young sociologists who think and believe we deserve better...