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Peyman Jafari

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Peyman Jafari holds a PhD from Leiden University in History. His research focuses on the relationship between empires, labor, and ecology in the global history of oil, the social history of revolutions, and the historical and contemporary role of the labor movement in Iran. He is the author of Het andere Iran: van de revolutie tot vandaag (Ambo/Anthos, 2009), an expanded translation of which has been published in German, Der andere Iran: Geschichte und Kultur von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart (C.H. Beck, 2010). He has co-edited two volumes: Iran in the Middle East: Transnational Encounters and Social History (IB Tauris, 2015) and Worlds of Labor Turned Upside Down: Labor Relations and Revolutions in Global Perspective (Brill, 2021). His other publications include "Revolt with a Revolutionary Perspective," published in Iranian Studies on the role of labor in Iran's Women, Life, Freedom movement, and “Labour in the Making of the International Relations of Oil: Resource Nationalism and Trade Unions,” in Roland Dannreuther and Wojciech Ostrowski (eds.), Handbook of Oil and International Relations (Edwar Elgar Publishing, 2022). He is currently writing a monograph titled Oil and Labor in the Iranian Revolution: A Social History of Uneven and Combined Development.  

In 2022, he was awarded a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his new research project, “Oil Frontiers in the British and Dutch Empires: Land, Labor, and Environment in the Making of an Imperial Oil Regime, 1890-1940.

Publications: Peyman Jafari – Research output — Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

Peyman Jafari