Tribal Hands and Ethnic Votes: Ethnicity, Regionalism and Elections in Iran
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Tribal Hands and Ethnic Votes : Ethnicity, Regionalism and Elections in Iran. / Elling, Rasmus Christian.
In: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 38, No. 14, 2015, p. 2534-2550.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Tribal Hands and Ethnic Votes
T2 - Ethnicity, Regionalism and Elections in Iran
AU - Elling, Rasmus Christian
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Ethnic politics is a serious domestic challenge in Iran. Non-Persian communities are mobilizing to claim their rights and to demand representation in a system that activists claim is biased against minorities and the peripheral regions. Yet the inner workings of contemporary Iranian ethnic politics are largely understudied. This article explores recent evolutions in the role that ethnicity, regionalism and tribalism plays in Iranian domestic politics. It focuses on how these interconnected factors figured in the 2013 presidential and local council elections in Iran in a particular province that has a history of ethnic tensions. Incidentally, these elections brought Hassan Rouhani, a moderate cleric, to power as president. Among his electoral promises was to end the securitization of the minority issue. This article illustrates some of the barriers to a transformative ethnic politics – barriers that political leaders will have to overcome to enact real change.
AB - Ethnic politics is a serious domestic challenge in Iran. Non-Persian communities are mobilizing to claim their rights and to demand representation in a system that activists claim is biased against minorities and the peripheral regions. Yet the inner workings of contemporary Iranian ethnic politics are largely understudied. This article explores recent evolutions in the role that ethnicity, regionalism and tribalism plays in Iranian domestic politics. It focuses on how these interconnected factors figured in the 2013 presidential and local council elections in Iran in a particular province that has a history of ethnic tensions. Incidentally, these elections brought Hassan Rouhani, a moderate cleric, to power as president. Among his electoral promises was to end the securitization of the minority issue. This article illustrates some of the barriers to a transformative ethnic politics – barriers that political leaders will have to overcome to enact real change.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Iran
KW - Ethnicity
KW - Regionalism
KW - Nationalism
KW - Sectarianism
KW - Minorities
KW - Security
KW - Khuzestan
KW - Arab World
KW - Arabs
KW - Sociology
U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2015.1061135
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2015.1061135
M3 - Journal article
VL - 38
SP - 2534
EP - 2550
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
SN - 0141-9870
IS - 14
ER -
ID: 106418996