Difference in difference: language, geography, and ethno-racial identity in contemporary Iran
| Autor: | Rasmus Christian Elling, Kevan Harris |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Cultural Studies
Sociologi Sociology and Political Science Anthropology 0507 social and economic geography Ethnic group Identity (social science) Iran Language geography kvantitativ sociologi 050602 political science & public administration Majoritet Middle East Etnicitet 05 social sciences mindretal Difference in differences 0506 political science Nationalism Sprog Nationalisme National identity Historical sociology Faculty of Humanities 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Elling, R C & Harris, K 2021, ' Difference in Difference : Language, Geography, and Ethno-Racial Identity in Contemporary Iran ', Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 2255-2281 . https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1895275 |
| ISSN: | 1466-4356 0141-9870 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01419870.2021.1895275 |
| Popis: | Three approaches to portraying ethno-racial and national identity for Iran are common: a discretizing approach that groups and conflates ethnicity, language and geography; a civic-territorial conception of nationalism as supra-ethnic Iranian-ness; and an ethno-nationalist approach that criticizes the former for privileging a state-centered, Persian-Shiite majority’s culture and status. Instead of arbitrating between them, we propose a sociological approach that compares different forms of ethno-racial self-identification in modern Iran. Using the 2016 Iran Social Survey, which asks open-ended questions on ethno-racial self-identification, we find wide variation in how ethnic identity is expressed. On the one hand, the findings suggest that a sizable degree of mismatch exists, where concepts of ethnic groupness are confusing or not fully recognizable to many individuals. On the other hand, we also find that multi-ethnic self-identification is common, including across the ethno-racial boundaries often portrayed as closed and mutually exclusive groups in Western discussions on Iran. |
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