ISRF Book Launch: 'State Histories'
Yasamin Alkhansa presents her book on how Iranian regimes have used primary school history textbooks to portray the state and its concerns, with a panel discussion that follows. AI summary of the listing
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Why do authoritarian states closely control what content is covered in history textbooks? And what can their textbooks tell us about how these states perceive themselves and the people they rule? In her important new book, State Histories: The Politics of Teaching the Past in Iran , Yasamin Alkhansa develops a rigorous analysis of the way successive Iranian regimes have narrated Iran’s history to their own…
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