The terms “Persian” and “Iranian”don’tnecessarily mean the same thing. Some people draw a distinction in that Persian relates to a particular ethnicity, and being Iranian is a claim to a certain nationality. Thus, a person could be one without being the other. The Difference Between Per...
Tabatabai’s viewpoints are significant in that they have served as a major source of inspiration for a considerable portion of today’s Iranian nationalists. However, what his analyses overlook is the impact of Western Orientalist narratives on Iranians’ awareness of their own national identity. ...
What is a "Nation-State"? Political Scientist Ellen Grigsby defines "nation" as: "A nation is a group of people with a sense of unity based on the importance the group attributes to a shared trait, attribute, or custom. A common language, religion, ethnicity, race, and/or culture are ...
It defines that one/group belongs to what, whom, when, and where, while designates what is not. Through identity people define themselves and are defined by others on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, language, and culture. Identity, therefore, is a concept which combines the inner ...
Likewise, the paradigm of internal horizontality was gradually superseded by what I identify, building on an expression of Carter and Fenton (2010), as the "paradigm of not-thinking-ethnicity". The early 2000s saw the rise of a critique of "methodological national- ism", postulating that the...