AVAR: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in ANE @avartnp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025It's another Monday, but don't worry - we've got another article feature! Today we're highlighting Ipek Demir's article, "Diaspora Theorizing and the Diasporas of the Middle East": (1/3)🧵 avarjournal.com/avar/article... 111
AVAR: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in ANE @avartnp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Demir gives us a lightning-speed overview of her work, in which things such as methodological nationalism and amnesia are challenged in diaspora studies more broadly. She gives immediate examples in real time as we see them play out today in the Middle East. (2/3) 110
AVAR: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in ANE @avartnp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025If we remain locked in our theorizing to nation-state paradigms (home and host), we fail to do long-lasting justice. She calls for all of us to develop "new categories and concepts" for this work, while we also remain reflexive about where our work derives. READ IT! (3/3) 010
