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Mattin Biglari
SOAS, University of London
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Environment
Energy Studies
Colonialism
History Of Science
Labor History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Indian Ocean Region
Gulf
Specialties
Science And Technology Studies
Energy And Environmental Humanities
Labor And Subaltern History
Languages
Persian (advanced)
English (native)
Education
PhD | 2020 | History | SOAS
MA | 2014 | Near and Middle Eastern Studies | SOAS
BA | 2012 | History | University of Cambridge
Abstracts
Making Workers Invisible: The Production and Representation of Expertise in the Abadan Refinery and Beyond, 1939-53 Subjectivity in the “City of Science”: Expertise, Labor and the Technopolitics of the Abadan Refinery, c.1939-51 The Technopolitics of Iranian Oil Nationalisation The ‘Gift of Skill’: Rural Development, Peasant Subjectivity and the Near East Foundation in Iran