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Kaveh Ehsani
DePaul University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
International Studies Department
Suite 4100 990 W. Fullerton Avenue
Chicago IL 60614
United States
Discipline
Geography
Sub Areas
Development
Environment
Historiography
Iranian Studies
Modernization
Political Economy
State Formation
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Iran
Central Asia
Specialties
Comparative Social Econ Dev In ME & Cen Asia
Soc Theory & Human Geog
Social Histories Of Oil And Labor
Languages
French (advanced)
Persian (native)
Education
DPhil | 2014 | Faculty of Social Sciences | Leiden University
MA | 1987 | Reg Plng | U of Massachusetts, Amherst
Abstracts
Abadan and the Making of the Working Class and the Oil Industry in Iran Iranian Oil Workers in the Islamic Republic The Urban Life of Oil: The Built Environment and Daily Life in Khuzestan’s Company Towns Shifting Governmentality in the Shadow of Labor Activism: Revisiting the Roots and Impacts of the 1929 Abadan Oil Workers’ Strike Working for Oil: Shifting Politics of Labor in the Iranian Oil Industry The Antinomies of the War in Post-Revolutionary Iran Crises of Representation: The Moral Economy of Iranian Social /Public Protests