Shirin S. Deylami

ORCID: 0000-0003-0159-3664
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Research Areas
  • Islamic Studies and History
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Gender, Security, and Conflict
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Theater, Performance, and Music History
  • Media, Religion, Digital Communication
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
  • Reflective Practices in Education
  • Political Economy and Marxism
  • Social and Economic Development in India
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Theatre and Performance Studies
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • South Asian Studies and Diaspora
  • Rhetoric and Communication Studies
  • Education and Islamic Studies
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • Cinema and Media Studies

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
2023

Western Washington University
2009-2019

Reed College
2017

Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
2017

Towson University
2017

University of Illinois Chicago
2017

Simpson University
2017

Indiana University
2017

Appalachian State University
2017

Women, from across the West, have increasingly joined Islamic extremist groups in a variety of roles. Why are women participating movements which misogynistic and violent outlook? The dominant literature ascribes their motivations to conditions that make vulnerable pulls. These include lack marriage prospects, past experiences sexual violence, familial loss at hands ‘the enemy.’ This model analysis sees as victims, rather than agents who determine participation extremism. Such an approach...

10.1080/09592318.2019.1649831 article EN Small Wars and Insurgencies 2019-09-19

The growing number of female suicide bombers in the Muslim world has recently received a lot attention by academics and journalists West. This developing literature tended to understand these women as victims or pawns Islamic patriarchy. article offers critical review causal accounts bombing order show how discourses victimization reify masculinist justification for American empire. narrative empire produces Islam religion/culture patriarchy and, thus, reads needing rescue from their...

10.1080/14616742.2012.699782 article EN International Feminist Journal of Politics 2012-07-24

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10.1017/s1049096517001184 article EN PS Political Science & Politics 2017-10-01

In recent years, a number of incidents have pitted Islam against secularism and liberal democracy. This essay examines the Danish publication Prophet Muhammad cartoons in order to examine deployment rationality as litmus test for political membership. It argues that Western media analysis protests surrounding constructed Muslims anti-rational thus unfit democratic citizenship. Such inhibits possibility demands pluralism. The then looks two disparate theorists affective reason, Abdulkarim...

10.3390/rel9030089 article EN cc-by Religions 2018-03-20

Quite frankly, I didn’t even want to use you guys, with your dip and velcro all gear bullshit. wanted drop a bomb. But people believe in this lead enough So the...

10.1080/00497878.2019.1665046 article EN Women s Studies 2019-09-23

Some western scholars have interpreted criticisms of the West by Islamist and Middle Eastern intellectuals as expressions anti-modernism anti-globalization. Arguing that anti-westernism is often an attempt to fashion alternative global modernity, this essay explores ideas one prominent social political thinker in pre-revolutionary Islamic Iran, Jalal Al-e Ahmad. The article argues his concept westoxification challenges a binary understanding Islam proffers fresh both Iranian conceptions...

10.1057/pol.2010.27 article EN Polity 2011-01-24

Abstract In this Forum, six scholars reflect on Rahul Rao’s recent book Out of Time: The Queer Politics Postcoloniality from other geographies, themes and radical possibilities. Part II explores the analytic homonationalism in dialogue with Time. Jasbir Puar, who coined term an earlier path-breaking work, thinks against relations between what Rao called homocapitalism. Puar also how caste-gender politics Radical Sikhi during Farmers’ Protests India (2020-2021) can serve as alternative source...

10.1590/s0102-8529.20234503e20220007 article EN cc-by Contexto Internacional 2023-01-01

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10.1017/s1743923x09000129 article EN Politics & Gender 2009-03-01
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