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Essays & Academic Works, History, Middle East

Benedict Anderson’s “imagined communities”: is Iran based on ethnonationalism?

Is Benedict Anderson’s canonical “Imagined Communities” a good paradigm to understand Iranian nationalism? Continue reading Benedict Anderson’s “imagined communities”: is Iran based on ethnonationalism?

Marta ColomboOctober 13, 2016October 14, 2016Leave a comment
Essays & Academic Works, History

ESSAY – Islamic Parties in Indonesia in the 20th century: an analysis on their inability to gain power.

This essay explores Indonesia’s Islamic parties’ failure to gain power in the first republican years. Continue reading ESSAY – Islamic Parties in Indonesia in the 20th century: an analysis on their inability to gain power.

Marta ColomboOctober 13, 2016March 26, 2018Leave a comment
Cities, Essays & Academic Works, History

ESSAY – China’s early feminism: The Ling Long Women’s Magazine Issue 135, April 1934

This primary source analysis gives a unique entrance into 1930s Shanghai urban women and their early form of feminism Continue reading ESSAY – China’s early feminism: The Ling Long Women’s Magazine Issue 135, April 1934

Marta ColomboOctober 12, 2016March 26, 2018Leave a comment
Essays & Academic Works, History, Middle East, Uncategorized

ESSAY – Iran’s revolutions and and the historical conflict between Islamic and secular political agendas

This essay analyses the two revolutions that changed Iran in the broader context of secular and Islamic political agendas. Continue reading ESSAY – Iran’s revolutions and and the historical conflict between Islamic and secular political agendas

Marta ColomboOctober 12, 2016March 26, 2018Leave a comment
Essays & Academic Works, History

ESSAY – Japan’s controversial past: was it convenient to ‘forget’ its colonial and imperial past?

This Essay explores the complicated and controversial relationships between collective memory and history in Japan. Continue reading ESSAY – Japan’s controversial past: was it convenient to ‘forget’ its colonial and imperial past?

Marta ColomboOctober 12, 2016March 26, 2018Leave a comment
History, Journalist in the Making

THOUGHTS – History & Other Stories

Why history? Why Asia? Continue reading THOUGHTS – History & Other Stories

Marta ColomboOctober 4, 2016March 26, 2018Leave a comment
Cities, Uncategorized

“Globalizing” Italian cities? Starbucks & Co.

Can the arrival of Starbucks give Italian cities a “global look”? my perspective of the topic as an Italian coffee lover. Continue reading “Globalizing” Italian cities? Starbucks & Co.

Marta ColomboSeptember 25, 2016October 14, 20164 Comments
Middle East

Inside the Islamic Republic: Iranian reformism

How difficult is to understand the Islamic Republic of Iran? This post features some perspectives and reflections on social change in Iran. Continue reading Inside the Islamic Republic: Iranian reformism

Marta ColomboSeptember 25, 2016September 27, 2016Leave a comment
Cities, Travels

Lost in Translation: four days in Guilin

Technology and people’s priorities: my experience in Guilin, Southern China. Continue reading Lost in Translation: four days in Guilin

Marta ColomboSeptember 23, 2016September 25, 20161 Comment
Cities, History

‘Invisible Cities’: between real and imagined urban spaces

This short article is about an Italian utopian novel and my associations between real and imagined urban spaces. Continue reading ‘Invisible Cities’: between real and imagined urban spaces

Marta ColomboSeptember 23, 2016September 25, 2016Leave a comment
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