Kamran Matin, Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
Kamran Matin (KM): ..
Kamran Matin is Assistant Professor in International Relations at Sussex University. His research focuses on the international dimension of social, political, and intellectual development in the context of non-western experiences of modernity. Over the past few years, he has been exploring this theme in relation to the Iranian Revolution. This has generated a number of articles, as well as his book Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change (Routledge, 2013). More recently, he has been exploring the theoretical ground for a critical dialogue between Marxism and postcolonialism through the idea of “uneven and combined development.” This has so far generated an article entitled “Redeeming the Universal: Postcolonialism and the Inner Life of Eurocentrism” in the European Journal of International Relationsm (2013). Matin`s other publications include “International Relations in the Making of Political Islam: Interrogating Khomeini`s ‘Islamic Government’” in the Journal of International Relations and Development (2013) and “Democracy without Capitalism: Retheorizing Iran`s Constitutional Revolution” in Middle East Critique (2012).