CIWAS is pleased to share a new call for papers led by Dr Sahar Maranlou, for an edited volume on decolonisation, Islamisation, and the interdisciplinary future of the social sciences and humanities in Iran.
The volume is proposed for the Springer open-access series Reimagining Social Sciences and Humanities in and from the Middle East, edited by Mahjoob Zweiri and published by Springer Nature through its Palgrave Macmillan imprint. The series offers an interdisciplinary platform for rethinking the social sciences and humanities across the region, and this volume extends that work to Iran.
The volume asks how new hybrid ways of knowing are taking shape in Iran. It examines how Islamic and decolonial ideas are combined, negotiated, or resisted across academia and intellectual spaces, and how schools of thought, ideologies, and geopolitical contexts shape the knowledge that results. It looks at the effects of these processes on teaching, research, publishing, digital humanities, and social media, and at the roles played by diaspora and transnational networks. It also considers how AI, digitalisation, migration, and climate change are reshaping knowledge production, and what all of this means for academic freedom and intellectual autonomy.
Welcome themes and topics include:
• Islamisation and decolonisation of knowledge in Iran
• Coloniality and epistemological debates
• Hybrid knowledge production and emerging epistemologies
• Scholarship, publishing, and knowledge circulation
• Diaspora and transnational knowledge networks
• Digital humanities, AI, and social media
• Academic freedom and the public value of the social sciences and humanities
Submission guidelines
• Abstract: 300 to 500 words
• Bio: 100 to 150 words
• Keywords: 4 to 5
• Submission deadline: 7 June 2026
• Email: [email protected]
Series link: https://link.springer.com/series/60386
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