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Rasmus Christian Elling

PhD

Academic Profile

Associate Professor, Middle East Studies and Cross-Cultural Studies, the University of Copenhagen. Has published 'Minorities in Iran: Ethnicity and Nationalism after Khomeini' (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), Irans Moderne Historie (Gyldendal 2019). Research on the social and urban history of modern Iran.

Sample Publications

Recent publications:

2021: 'Difference in Difference: Language, Geography, and Ethno-Racial Identity in Contemporary Iran' with Kevan Harris, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies; 'In a Forest of Humans: The Urban Cartographies of Theory and Action in 1970s Iranian Revolutionary Socialism' in A. Keshavarzian & A. Mirsepassi (Eds.): Global 1979: Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolution, Cambridge University Press; 'Oil, Labour and Empire: Abadan in WWII Occupied Iran' with Rowena Abdul Razak, in: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies; 2019: Irans Moderne Historie, Gyldendal; 'Urbanizing the Iranian Public: Text, Tehran and 1922' in: Middle Eastern Studies, 55, 3.

Previous highlights:

2018: 'Abadan: Rise and Demise of an Oil Metropolis' with Kaveh Ehsani in: MERIP no. 287; 2016: ‘The Semantics of Violence and Space in Urban History’ in N. Fuccaro (Ed.): Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East (Stanford University Press); 2016: ‘War of Clubs: Struggle for Space and the 1946 Oil Strike in Abadan’ in N. Fuccaro (Ed.): Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East (Stanford University Press); 2015: 'On Lines and Fences: Oil, Space and Violence in World War II Abadan', in Ulrike Freitag (Ed.): Urban Violence in the Middle East, New York/Oxford: Berghahn. 2015: 'Abadan: Oil City Dreams and the Nostalgia for Past Futures', ajammc.com/2015/02/16/abadan-oil-city-dreams/ 2013: Minorities in Iran: Nationalism and Ethnicity after Khomeini, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012: 'Matters of Authenticity: Khomeinism, Nationalism and Ethnic Diversity in Iran', in: Iran: From Theocracy to the Green Movement, Negin Nabavi (ed.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan; 2009: 'State of Mind, State of Order: Official Reactions to Ethnic Unrest in the Islamic Republic of Iran' in: Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 8, 3.

Field of Research

Iranian Studies, Ethnicity, National Identity, Modern History, Politics

Current Position

Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen