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?
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.
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
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
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 Colombo 