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Books by Minoo Moallem

Persian Carpets: The Nation as a Transnational Commodity, 2018

Minoo Moallem offers a fascinating discussion of the Persian carpet as a site of identity, aesthe... more Minoo Moallem offers a fascinating discussion of the Persian carpet as a site of identity, aesthetic object, and modern commodity. In a genealogical account that traces the history of Persian carpets as imperial and civilizational objects in the mid-nineteenth century to national and diasporic commodities today, she insightfully explores the affective experiences and material conditions that undergird the history of their production and consumption. and author of Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East Persian Carpets redirects the magic flight of Orientalist fantasies into Iranian village workshops, commercial factories, merchant bazaars, African mosques, connoisseurs' vaults, world fair pavilions, museum displays, cinema screens, Internet auction sites as well as homes-both modest and ostentatious-blessed by their woven beauty around the world. With a keen sense of the carpet as art, craft, commodity, and cultural icon, Moallem sheds light on the role carpets play in defining gender, class, religion, ethnicity and nation as well as transnational identities in diaspora. A model of interdisciplinary inquiry, this book speaks to scholars as well as general readers interested in taking a fresh look at the carpets under their feet. -Gina Marchetti, Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong SOCIOLOGY / POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES 9 781138 290259 ISBN 978-1-138-29025-9 Cover image: © Faig Ahmed Routledge titles are available as eBook editions in a range of digital formats www.routledge.com

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ISBN 0-520-24344-7 hard cover and ISBN 0-520-24345-5 paperback, 269 pp.

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Digital Projects by Minoo Moallem

Guest Edited Volumes by Minoo Moallem

Selected Book Chapters by Minoo Moallem

In "Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out" edited by Fawzia Afzal-Khan, 2005

Persian Carpets: The Nation as a Transnational Commodity, 2018

ISBN 0-520-24344-7 hard cover and ISBN 0-520-24345-5 paperback, 269 pp.

In "Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out" edited by Fawzia Afzal-Khan, 2005

In "Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader" by Elizabeth A. Castelli, Jan 1, 2001

Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism Minoo Moallem In the past few decades, with the ex... more Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism Minoo Moallem In the past few decades, with the expansion of new forms of print and visual media, with globalization, and with the erosion of the nation-state, societies, social groups, and individuals have suffered a" crisis of ...

In "Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State" edited by Caren Kaplan, Normal Alarcon, and Minoo Moallem, Jan 1, 1999

Fabricating Masculinity: Gender, Race, and Nation in a Transnational Frame Dorinne Kondo Concerns... more Fabricating Masculinity: Gender, Race, and Nation in a Transnational Frame Dorinne Kondo Concerns with the national and the transnational have been refrains in Japan of late, taking the form in the 1980s of a preoccupation with" Japanese identity" and" internationalization." ...

Co-author with Iain A. Boal in "Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State" edited by Caren Kaplan, Norma Alarcon, and Minoo Moallem, Jan 1, 1999

Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 2002

Meridians, Jan 1, 2002

As feminist theorists of transnational and postmodern cultural formations, we believe that it is ... more As feminist theorists of transnational and postmodern cultural formations, we believe that it is crucial to seek non-violent solutions to conflicts at every level ofsociety, from the global, regional, and national arenas to the ordinary locales of everyday life. We offer the following response to the events ofSeptember 11 (9-11) and its aftermath:

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the …, Jan 1, 2000

Routledge eBooks, May 16, 2018

Review of Japanese culture and society, Dec 1, 1999

... The Texualization of Violence in a Global World: GenderedCitizenship and Discourses of Protec... more ... The Texualization of Violence in a Global World: GenderedCitizenship and Discourses of Protection (<Special Issue>Violence in the Modern World Part One). Minoo Moallem; San Francisco State University. 本文を読む／探す. Webcat Plus刊行物・所蔵情報. 収録刊行物. ...

Routledge eBooks, Feb 8, 2023

Meridians, 2021

This article focuses on anti-Muslim racism as a discourse that collapses race and religion and ca... more This article focuses on anti-Muslim racism as a discourse that collapses race and religion and cannot be reduced to phobia. It is instead about a racial project of accumulation based on European superiority and how cultural racism upholds the European civilizational project. The author argues that Islamophobia should be traced back to colonial modernity, its regimes of othering, and its perception of Islam as Mohammedanism that conceals its nature as a fetishistic, primitive, barbaric, patriarchal, and irrational set of beliefs. To illustrate anti-Muslim racism, the author elaborates briefly on three interconnected ideas: the construction of Islam as a unified religious and cultural mindset, its fetishistic character, and its enigmatic image of the woman to reflect on how Islam is presented as the antonym of Western civilization.

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 1992

South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 No. 2, Fall 1992. ... Throughout human history, the apostles of pur... more South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 No. 2, Fall 1992. ... Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a to-tal explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed up human beings. Like many mil-lions of people, I am a bastard child of ...

Journal of Right-Wing Studies

We spent the year 2008 trying to get the UC Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies (CRWS) off the... more We spent the year 2008 trying to get the UC Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies (CRWS) off the ground. There was pushback. In part, it was because there was no precedent-right-wing studies?-for such an entity on a major research campus. But above all, the pushback was about timing. Neoliberalism was suffering comeuppance in the form of transnational catastrophic financial collapse and near depression. In the USA, the most right-wing presidency in at least seventy-five years was coming to a shattering end, seeming to give way to a "transformative" administration under a Black Democrat. Sam Tanenhaus of the New York Times reflected the widespread mood, publishing The Death of Conservatism. Why now was there a need for right-wing studies? The Tea Party swiftly put this objection to rest. Its populist uprising was the defining political event of the Obama years. It was launched in February 2009, one month after Barack Obama's inauguration as president and one month before CRWS opened its doors. We held an early conference on the Tea Party, wrote reports and a book on it, and the center attracted attention from many quarters around the world where right-wing populism was similarly on the rise. By the time US populism morphed from the Tea Party to Trumpism, immigration surges had made the worldwide dimension of the trend unmistakable. Liberal democracy was back on its heels in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Trumpism was of a piece with illiberal democratic regimes erupting across the continents. Behind them were populist right-wing mobilizations possessed by local variations of replacement theory. This state of affairs has only deepened over the past several years. Surely it is time for a Journal of Right-Wing Studies. JRWS will publish essays, research papers, book reviews, and commentary. We believe the problems we will address here are urgent, and that discussion and analysis need to be as widely diffused as possible. Accordingly, we are an open access journal available worldwide without economic barriers for readers or for potential authors. Our first full issue-Issue One-will be published early this year. What we are publishing today we are calling our "Issue Zero." We have asked a dozen scholars to comment on what they consider to be the most compelling questions in right-wing studies today. We believe this provocative series of short essays offers a robust suggestion of what is to come in JRWS. It is a pleasure to welcome you to our initial publication, Issue Zero of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies.

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and The Middle East, May 1, 2022

Antinomies of Modernity, 2003

While feminist cultural and media studies have reinvigorated feminist scholarship in the last two... more While feminist cultural and media studies have reinvigorated feminist scholarship in the last two decades, there is still a pressing need for an understanding of the uneven neoliberal, postcolonial, and transnational context within which knowledge and power intersect via consumerism and commodity circulation. The field of feminist cultural and media studies is still wide open for scholarly inquiries that bring into light the linkages between systems of representations and the circulation of labor, capital, and commodities.

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and The Middle East, 2000

Sensational Religion, 2020

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2019

"The Enigma of Muslim Woman" par Minoo Moallem. Discutante : Lucia Direnberger Séance organis... more "The Enigma of Muslim Woman" par Minoo Moallem.
Discutante : Lucia Direnberger
Séance organisée par deux laboratoires : CéSor (Ecole des Hauts Etudes en Sciences Sociales) et Sophiapol (Université Paris Lumière)