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Publications [#386162] of Negar Mottahedeh
Articles in a Collection
- Mottahedeh, N, Planetarity: The Anti-disciplinary Object of Iranian Studies,
in Global 1979 Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolution
(January, 2021),
pp. 389-410 [doi]
(last updated on 2026/01/20)Abstract:
Drawing on a close reading of the French feminist Des Femmes's documentary Mouvement de libération des femmes Iraniennes année zero made by a group of filmmakers and journalists associated with Antoinette Fouque and the Psych et Po, this chapter articulates the ways that the Iranian Revolution’s anti-disciplinary concept of “the planetary” (jahani in Persian) situates the object of Iranian studies and the radical mission of the field.

