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S. A. Hosseini


S. A. Hamed Hosseini (Iran, 1970) is a sociologist. Senior Lecturer at The University of Newcastle, Australia, he works in the fields of the global social movements, global social problems, sociology of knowledge, and the political sociology of ethnic minorities in the West.

He has written articles and a book on the ideological aspects of global social movements including the ideological and cognitive transitions in the global justice movements.

Hosseini is a Faculty Associated Researcher at The Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing (RISIW), and Humanities Research Institute (HRI), The University of Newcastle, Australia. He completed his PhD in Sociology and Global Studies (2006) at the Australian National University (ANU). Since 2003, he has been teaching at the Australian National University, University of Technology Sydney, University of New South Wales, and the University of Newcastle. He has won research grants including the 2010 Bilateral Grant from the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

His original research interests were in the political sociology of Iran and Islamist thoughts (the case of Dr Ali Shariati). This resulted in a series of articles published in an Iranian leftist magazine, Farhange Tose'eh (فرهنگ توسعه), through which he criticised the applicability of mainstream Western social theories in non-Western (particularly Muslim) societies like Iran. The demise of the 1990s Iranian reformist movement led by Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran (1997–2005) and the rise of a new conservative government were predicted by him. He explained this in terms of the movement's limits caused by its association with the urban middle class concerns and values; for their failure in paying attention to social justice and the class divisions; incapacity to communicate with the working and lower classes; adoption of structural adjustment policies; and inability to develop indigenised models for political and economic change. Through a number of articles he outlined a post-colonial Southern perspective in sociology based on the social ideas of Ali Shariati (1933–1977) (a Muslim reformist and the leading intellectual figure behind Iran's 1979 revolution whose ideas became once again a source of inspiration for Iranian democratic movements in the late 1990s and 2000s).


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