S A Hosseini
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Dr S A Hamed Hosseini is a sociologist (specialized in global studies), Lecturer at The University of Newcastle, Australia. He is noted for work in the fields of the global social movements, global social problems, sociology of knowledge, and the political sociology of ethnic minorities in the West.
He has written articles and a book on the ideological aspects of global social movements including the ideological and cognitive transitions in the global justice movements.
Hosseini is a Faculty Associated Researcher at The Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing (RISIW), and Humanities Research Institute (HRI), The University of Newcastle, Australia. He completed his PhD in Sociology and Global Studies (2006) at the Australian National University
(ANU). Since 2003, he has been teaching at the Australian National University
, University of Technology Sydney, University of New South Wales
, and the University of Newcastle
. He has won research grants including the 2010 Bilateral Grant from the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
of Iran
and Islamist thoughts (the case of Dr Ali Shariati
). This resulted in a series of articles published in an Iranian leftist magazine, Farhange Tose’eh (فرهنگ توسعه), through which he criticized the applicability of mainstream Western social theories in non-Western (particularly Muslim) societies like Iran. The demise of the 1990s Iranian reformist movement led by Mohammad Khatami
, the former president of Iran (1997–2005) and the rise of a new conservative government were predicted by him. He explained this in terms of the movement’s limits caused by its association with the urban middle class concerns and values; for their failure in paying attention to social justice and the class divisions; incapacity to communicate with the working and lower classes; adoption of structural adjustment policies; and inability to develop indigenized models for political and economic change. Through a number of articles he outlined a post-colonial Southern perspective in sociology based on the social ideas of Ali Shariati
(1933–1977) (a Muslim reformist and the leading intellectual figure behind Iran's 1979 revolution whose ideas became once again a source of inspiration for Iranian democratic movements in the late 1990s and 2000s).
His PhD research at the ANU was in the area of social movements, focusing on the so-called anti-globalization movement (global justice or alter-globalization movement). This resulted in Alternative Globalizations, (2010), a book which set out the main ideational features of the movement and developed a new way of theorizing the (trans)formation of ideas, identities, and solidarities in globalized social movements. His recent studies and publications have contributed to Social Sciences by developing new concepts such as "accommodative consciousness", "Interactive solidarities", "activist knowledge
", "social nexuses of inequality", "ideological visions", "transversal cosmopolitanism". It provides researchers in the areas of social movement and social ideation studies with a new integrative approach which accommodates major theoretical disputes.
(so-called anti-globalization movement
) in the period between 2001 and 2010.
for human welfare including health, education, democracy
, human rights
, justice
, etc.
He has written articles and a book on the ideological aspects of global social movements including the ideological and cognitive transitions in the global justice movements.
Hosseini is a Faculty Associated Researcher at The Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing (RISIW), and Humanities Research Institute (HRI), The University of Newcastle, Australia. He completed his PhD in Sociology and Global Studies (2006) at the Australian National University
Australian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
(ANU). Since 2003, he has been teaching at the Australian National University
Australian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
, University of Technology Sydney, University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
, and the University of Newcastle
University of Newcastle
University of Newcastle can refer to:* Newcastle University, a university in the United Kingdom* University of Newcastle, Australia, a university in New South Wales...
. He has won research grants including the 2010 Bilateral Grant from the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
Research interests
His original research interests were in the political sociologyPolitical sociology
Contemporary political sociology involves much more than the study of the relations between state and society . Where a typical research question in political sociology might have been: "Why do so few American citizens choose to vote?" or even, "What difference does it make if women get elected?" ...
of Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
and Islamist thoughts (the case of Dr Ali Shariati
Ali Shariati
Ali Shariati was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist, who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution'.-Biography:Ali....
). This resulted in a series of articles published in an Iranian leftist magazine, Farhange Tose’eh (فرهنگ توسعه), through which he criticized the applicability of mainstream Western social theories in non-Western (particularly Muslim) societies like Iran. The demise of the 1990s Iranian reformist movement led by Mohammad Khatami
Mohammad Khatami
Sayyid Mohammad Khātamī is an Iranian scholar, philosopher, Shiite theologian and Reformist politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August 3, 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture in both the 1980s and 1990s...
, the former president of Iran (1997–2005) and the rise of a new conservative government were predicted by him. He explained this in terms of the movement’s limits caused by its association with the urban middle class concerns and values; for their failure in paying attention to social justice and the class divisions; incapacity to communicate with the working and lower classes; adoption of structural adjustment policies; and inability to develop indigenized models for political and economic change. Through a number of articles he outlined a post-colonial Southern perspective in sociology based on the social ideas of Ali Shariati
Ali Shariati
Ali Shariati was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist, who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution'.-Biography:Ali....
(1933–1977) (a Muslim reformist and the leading intellectual figure behind Iran's 1979 revolution whose ideas became once again a source of inspiration for Iranian democratic movements in the late 1990s and 2000s).
His PhD research at the ANU was in the area of social movements, focusing on the so-called anti-globalization movement (global justice or alter-globalization movement). This resulted in Alternative Globalizations, (2010), a book which set out the main ideational features of the movement and developed a new way of theorizing the (trans)formation of ideas, identities, and solidarities in globalized social movements. His recent studies and publications have contributed to Social Sciences by developing new concepts such as "accommodative consciousness", "Interactive solidarities", "activist knowledge
Activist knowledge
'Activist knowledge' or 'dissident knowledge', refers to the ideological and ideational aspects of social movements such as challenging or reformulating dominant political ideas and ideologies, and developing new concepts, thoughts and meanings through the contentional interactions with social,...
", "social nexuses of inequality", "ideological visions", "transversal cosmopolitanism". It provides researchers in the areas of social movement and social ideation studies with a new integrative approach which accommodates major theoretical disputes.
Global Social Movements
Research resulted in a series of journal article and a book on the ideational aspects and ideological transformations in the global justice movementGlobal Justice Movement
The Global Justice Movement is a network or constellation of globalized social movements opposing what is often known as the “corporate globalization” and promoting equal distribution of economic resources.-Movement of movements:...
(so-called anti-globalization movement
Anti-globalization movement
The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalisation movement, is critical of the globalization of corporate capitalism. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement, alter-globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or...
) in the period between 2001 and 2010.
Global Issues and Complexities
Both undergraduate and postgraduate courses are taught by Dr S A Hosseini address the consequences of economic and financial globalizationGlobalization
Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
for human welfare including health, education, democracy
Democracy
Democracy is generally defined as a form of government in which all adult citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Ideally, this includes equal participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law...
, human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
, justice
Justice
Justice is a concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, or equity, along with the punishment of the breach of said ethics; justice is the act of being just and/or fair.-Concept of justice:...
, etc.
Political Identity, Identity Politics and (Post-)Islamist Movements
In recent years, Hosseini has led three research projects on “Identity Politics of Islamism and the Young Muslims’ Political Identity in Australia: A Preliminary Qualitative Study”(2010, granted by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia); “Political Islam and the Formation of Political Identity among Young Muslims in the West: A Comparative Study of Australian and Canadian Cases” (2009 – funded by the University of Newcastle); “The Rise and Demise of Islamist-Market Fundamentalism in Iran: an economic sociological account of public policy in Post-Cold War Iran” (2009).Recent Publications and Conferences
- 2010
- Alternative Globalizations, Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415494762/
- “Activist knowledge: Interrogating the ideational landscape of social movements”, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 5, 5, 339-357. http://iji.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.88/prod.1148
- 2009
- “Global complexities and the rise of global justice movement: A new notion of justice?”, The Global Studies Journal, 2, 3, 15-36. http://gsj.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.184/prod.118
- 2007
- “Interactive solidarities: Experiencing the open spaces of convergence & controversy in Cosmopolitan Civil Societies”, 2007 UTS Conference on Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. http://www.shopfront.uts.edu.au/news/ccsconferenceprogramforwebsite1.pdf
- 2006
- ”Beyond Practical Dilemmas and Conceptual Reductionism: the Emergence of an Accommodative Consciousness in the Alternative Globalization Movement”, Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 3, 1 http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal/article/download/102/76
- 2003
- “Between ‘Social Cognition’ and ‘Social Knowledge’: Towards a New ‘Sociology of Cognition’ as a Synthetic Space of Study.” Post-Graduate Conference, ANU, Canberra, Australia. http://arts.anu.edu.au/sss/nigl/
- (professional translation) ‘فراتر از دوگانه انگاری: بازخوانی نظریه توسعه’ [ ‘Beyond Dualism: Rethinking Theories of Development in a Global-Local Framework’ by Mike Douglas, 1998 in Regional Development Dialogue, 19 (1)] in Mousavi-Khorasani, J. Ketabe Tose’eh: Nazariyehaye Tose’eh [Development Theories], Tehran: Nashre Tose’eh ISBN 964-6609-42-2. http://www.scribd.com/doc/44529864/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%AF%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C
- 2001
- “جامعه شناسی محافظه کاری و نومحافظه کاری در ایران [Sociology of Conservatism and New Conservatism in Iran]", Farhang-e-Tose’eh, 9 (48), pp. 36–47. http://www.scribd.com/doc/44531507/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%87-%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8%D9%87-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D9%88-%D9%86%D9%88-%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8%D9%87-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C
- 2000
- "[Ali Shariati's Islamic-Critical School of Thought (1)] مکتب انتقادی دکتر علی شریعتی (1)", Farhang-e-Tose'eh, 9, 44,http://g.1asphost.com/hamedhosseini/Shariati1.pdf
- "[Ali Shariati's Islamic-Critical School of Thought (2)] مکتب انتقادی دکتر علی شریعتی (2)", Farhang-e-Tose'eh, 9, 47. http://g.1asphost.com/hamedhosseini/Shariati2.pdf
- 1999
- [Wandering-Absorption Theory: the inconsistencies between modern social theory and reality in the context of Iran] نظریه سرگشتگی-جذب: چالش های نظریه و واقعیت در ایران امروز ', Farhang-e-Tose'eh, 8, 42-43. http://www.scribd.com/doc/44518578/Wandering-Absorption-Theory-%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%87-%D8%B3%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B4%D8%AA%DA%AF%DB%8C-%D8%AC%D8%B0%D8%A8
- “The Theoretical Contractions and Extensions of Development (قبض و بسط تئوریک توسعه),” Farhange-Tose’eh, vol. 8, No. 42-43, pp. 86–93,
- “Responsive Democracy?” Iran Newspaper, vol. 5. No. 1264, June 27,
- “The Critical Nature of Social Knowledge – ماهیت انتقادی معرفت” Iran Newspaper, vol. 6, No. 1546,
- “Reification: Towards a Southern Perspective- شیئ زدگی و سیر تکوینی آن در اندیشه و عمل ”, Iran Newspaper, vol. 5, No. 1189, March 9, 10, 14, http://www.scribd.com/doc/58955619/Reification-Hosseini1
- “Religion and Ideology in Ali Shariati’s Social of Thought – فربه تر از دین: دین و ایدئولوژی در اندیشه دکتر علی شریعتی”, Iran Newspaper, vol. 5, No. 1257, June 19, 20, [
- 1998
- “[A Re-constructionist approach to studying Qur'an] روش شناخت قرآن در اندیشه نوین دینی”, Fara-rah [a Journal in Quranic Studies] [online], 1, 1. http://www.scribd.com/doc/59426457/QuranMethod-Hosseini-FararahJournalWinter1377
- "Social Conservatism among Iranian University Students", MA thesis, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. http://www.scribd.com/doc/46295445/%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8%D9%87-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%AC%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87-%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF