Hadi Khoshneviss
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Khoshneviss’ research areas are race and ethnicity, decolonial theory, social movements, movement and mobility, and nationalism. Currently, Khoshneviss has two research projects. In his first research project, he studies the construction, preservation, and transformation of whiteness, as a racial category, in the United States. For instance, he explores the role of different state institutions, such as immigration and citizenship laws and the US census, in racialization processes and in interaction with colonialism and global geopolitics. In his second research project, he studies homelessness and urban design in Memphis, Tennesse.
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Provides a critical review of the development of social movement theories. Argues that New Social Movement Theories, while enlightening, need to revise their claim of “newness” about certain movements in Western countries, and recognize the continuity and persistence of cultural politics and practices in older social movements within and outside of Western contexts.
Argues for the study of movement through a critical historical perspective to understand why certain mobilities are embraced, promoted, and glorified while the movement of certain others are condemned, prevented, and curtailed. Examines the experience of Iranian students at a Southern US airport.