Research Foci
- Research on Democratisation and De-democratisation
- Structural Analysis of Social Inequalities
- Process and Figuration Sociology
- Sociology of Knowledge
- Political Sociology
- Social and Political Developments of Modern Iran
CV
Academic Education
- PhD studies as a DAAD scholarship holder at the Institute for Sociology, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
- Postgraduate studies at the Institute of Sociology, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
- Master's degree at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran
- Bachelor's degree at the Institue for Political Science, University of Isfahan
Positions
- Erasmus+ visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Pázmány Péter University
- Erasmus+ visiting lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
- Erasmus + visiting lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, University of Leicester (UK)
- Research fellow at the Institute for Sociology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster
- Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews (UK)
External Functions
Teaching
- Seminar: Geschichte und Soziologie [062561]
- Seminar: The development of the state and society in transnational periods; the example of Iran from the 19th centuray [062560]
- Seminar: Veschiedene Diskurse zum Islam in Deutschland [068551]
- Seminar: The Relationship between 'Individual' and 'Society' [068552]
- Seminar: Sociology of Domination: On the Structural Analysis of the Dynamics of Established - Outsider Relationships [065164]
- Seminar: Zum Verhältnis von Individuum und Gesellschaft [065179]
Publications
Books (Monographs)
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . Institutionelle Entdemokratisierungsprozesse Zum Nachhinkeffekt des sozialen Habitus in Frankreich, Iran und Deutschland. Preprint. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
Articles
Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
Research Articles (Journals)
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “Post-Democracy or Processes of De-Democratization? United States Case Study.” Historical Social Research, № 42 (4): 189–206. doi: 10.12759/hsr.42.2017.4.189-206.
- Alikhani, Behrouz Rommel Inken. . “Aufstieg des Kulturrassismus: Von Huntington zu Sarrazin.” Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, № 2017: 1–16. doi: 10.1007/s12286-017-0363-8.
- Ernst, Stefanie, Weischer, Christoph, and Alikhani, Behrouz. . “Changing Power Relations and the Drag Effects of Habitus. Theoretical and Empirical Approaches in the Twenty-First Century. An Introduction.” Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, № 42 (4): 7–21. doi: 10.12759/hsr.42.2017.4.7-21.
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “On the Habitual Dimension of Problems of Democratisation; Using the Example of Egypt after the Arab Spring, in Human Figurations.” Human Figurations, № 9 (1)
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “نگاهی به زمینههای اجتماعی-روانی شکست حکومت مشروطه و به قدرت رسیدن رضا خان در ایران.” Iranische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, № 17 (1&2): 31–54.
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “Zur habituellen Dimension von Demokratisierungsproblemen am Beispiel Ägypten nach dem Arabischen Frühling.” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, № Volume 42 (Issue 1): 1–19. doi: 10.1007/s11614-017-0251-0.
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “Towards a Process-oriented Model of Democratisation or De-Democratisation.” Human Figurations, № 3 (2): Online–Publikation.
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “Popular War Songs and Slogans in the Persian Language during the Iran-Iraq War.” CAMBIO, № 2013 (6): Online–Publikation.
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “How Can Habitual Constraints Contribute to a Process of Institutional De-democratization? An Iranian Case Study.” centre for the critical study of global power and politics, № 2013 (1): 1–15.
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “جهانی شدن و هویت ایرانی.” Iran Nameh, № 26 (3-4): 100–112.
Review (Journals)
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “Emotion, Habitus und der erster Weltkrieg.” Human Figurations, № Volume 4 (Issue 3)
Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “Difficulties of the EU as a Common Object for Identification.” in Comparative-historical sociology as antidote to the “crackpot realism” of the twenty-first century, Vol. 6 , edited by Law, Alexander Mennell and Stephen.
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “Zum Verhältnis von Macht und Selbstwert; Praxis der traditionellen Eheschließungen zwischen Bakhtiari-Nomadenstämmen im Iran.” in Soziologie in Österreich – Internationale Verflechtungen, edited by Staubmann Helmut Hrsg.. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press. doi: 10.15203/3122-5.
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “Parliamentary Form of Government, Habitus and Violence: The Case of Iran (1906–1925).” in Norbert Elias and Violence, edited by Tatiana Savoia Landini and François Dépelteau. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-56118-3.
- Alikhani, Behrouz. . “The Failure of the Constitutional Monarchy in Iran: The Socio- and Psycho-Genesis of Reza Khan's Rise of Power.” in Studies on the Iranoian World II; Medieval and Modern, edited by Krasnowolska, Anna und Rusek-Kowalska and Renata. Krakau: Jagiellonian University Press.
Special Issues of Journals
- Ernst, Stefanie; Weischer, Christoph: Alikhani, Behrouz, ed. .“Changing Power Relations and the Drag Effects of Habitus. Theoretical and Empirical Approaches in the Twenty-First Century.” Special Issue Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung 162/4.
Scientific Talks
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “The Practice of Traditional Bakhtiari marriages in Iran”. Third Annual Conference of the Iranian Studies Initiative; The Changing Nature of Family and Marriage in Contemporary Iran , UC Santa Barbara, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “Neoliberalization, De-Democratization and Processes of Des-Integration in the EU”. 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association; (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities, Athen, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “On the Habitual Dimension of Problems of Democratisation: Egypt after the Arab Spring”. Colioqio de Historia, Universidad National De Colombia, Bogotá, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “To what extent is the Established and Outsider theory of Norbert Elias Eurocentric? - the example of marriages of Bakhtiari tribes in Iran’”. VI Taller y Oficio de la Historia realizado , Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “Post-Democracy or Processes of De-Democratization; USA Case Study ”. Institute Lecture, Pázmány Péter Catholic University Budapest, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “The relationship between power and self-esteem; using the example of marriages of Bakhtiari tribes in Iran ”. Institute Lecture, Pázmány Péter Catholic University Budapest, Hungary, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “Towards a Process-oriented Model of Democratisation or De-Democratisation”. Norbert Elias and Global History - Polányi Lecture Series, Corvinus University of Budapest, .
- UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ESPÍRITO SANTO (UFES) VITÓRIA-ES, BRASIL : “On the Civilizing Dimension of Processes of Democratization and De-Democratization”. XVI SIMPÓSIO INTERNACIONAL PROCESSOS CIVILIZADORES - Diálogos Interdisciplinares: Política, Contextos e Processos Sociais, VITÓRIA-ES, BRASIL, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “Difficulties of the EU As a Common Object for Identification”. Third ISA Forum of Sociology, Wien, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : „Daryoush Ashouri and his Theory of 'Open' versus 'Closed' Languages“. Interkulturelle Philosophie Mehrsprachigkeit, Pluralismus und Universalismus, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : „The Rise of Cultural Racism: a Comparison between Germany and the USA“. Migration und Integration als politische Herausforderung – Vergleichende Analysen zu politisch-kulturellen Voraussetzungen der Migrationspolitik und Reaktionen, universität Leipzig, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : „Bakhtiari Nomads in Iran and Processes of Nationalization“. Gesellschaft für Soziologie (GSU), Graz, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : „How do Bakhtiari Nomads Experience Processes of Modernization in Iran? Cultural Deracination and Disorientation or Adaptation?“ Institutsseminar, Linz, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “The relationship between Power and Self-esteem, Using the Example of Marriages of Bakhtiari Tribes in Iran”. Social Character and Historical Processes: A Conference in Honour of Stephen Mennell, Dublin, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : „To which extent is the Theory of the Established and the Outsiders of Norbert Elias Eurocentric?“ Österreichischer Soziologie Kongress 2015, Innsbruck, Österreich, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “Rising of Extremist Parties in Europe as Function of Drag Effect of the Social Habitus of a Great Number of Europeans”. 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015, Prag, Tschechische Republik, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : „On habitual dimension of democratization problems; using the example of Egypt after the Arab Spring“. Kolloquium des Instituts für Soziologie, Münster, Deutschland, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “How Structurally Similar is El-Sisi's Seizure of Power in Egypt to Reza Khans Seizure of Power in Iran in 1925?” Departmental Seminar , Department for Sociology, University of Leicester, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “Al-Sisi’s Rise of Power and Processes of De-democratization in Egypt”. International Conference on Middle Eastern Studies: New actors and issues in the post-Arab uprisings era, Istanbul, Turkey, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “Rising of Extremist Parties in Elections of European Parliament in 2014 as Function of Drag Effect of the Social Habitus of a Great Number of Europeans”. The Quest of “European Identity” as a new Challenge for Social Theory, Münster, Deutschland, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “How Structurally Similar is El-Sisi’s Seizure of Power in Egypt to Reza Khans Seizure of Power in Iran in 1925”. 21th DAVO-Congress , Köln, Deutschland, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “Post-Democracy or the Process of De-Democratisation?” From the Past to the Present and towards Possible Futures: The Collected Works of Norbert Elias, Leicester, UK, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : „Post-democracy or processes of de-democratization?“ Kolloquium des Instituts für Soziologie, Münster, Deutschland, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “What Do the Popular War Songs and Slogans that Emerged in the Persian Language during the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 Contain?” Habitus, War, and Civilization, towards an Understanding of the Bellicose Sides of Society, Graz, Österreich, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “How far did the implementation of the ‘Republic’ differ from the ‘Monarchy-Change’ by Reza Khan in Iran in 1924-1925?” 7th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Krakow, Poland, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : “Globalization and Iranian Identity”. Cultural Iran and globalization; a Future Perspective, Teheran, Iran, .
- Alikhani, Behrouz : „Islam as a remembered change-continuum; using the example of Iranian society“. Religion Macht Politik, Berlin, Deutschland, .
Dr. Behrouz Alikhani
