Dr Kamran Matin

Biography

BA Development Studies (East Anglia, 2002); MSc Social Research Methods (Sussex, 2003); DPhil International Relations (Sussex, 2008)

Role

Lecturer in International Relations

Member of the management committee of Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT)

 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cait

My research revolves around the international dimension of socio-political change focusing on the non-western experiences of modernity. Over the last few years I have been exploring this theme in relation to the Iranian Revolution through a critical application of the concept of uneven and combined development. This has generated a few articles/book-chapters and a book to be published by Routledge. More recently, I have become interested in  conducting a critical dialogue between postcolonial theory and uneven and combined development. I am also interested in international theory, historical sociology, Marxist IR theories, nation-state formation, 'Third World' revolutionary ideologies/histories, and Iranian modernity.

Areas of Research Supervision
I would be interested in supervising DPhil research concerned with, critical/Marxist international theory and historical sociology, and also, more specifically, in the following areas: modernisation projects (especially in the Middle East), geopolitics of (pre)modern state-formations, (trans)formation of 'political Islams', modern Iran and Kurdish nationalism.

Undergraduate: 

Contemporary International Theory [L2015]

International Relations of the Modern Middle East [L2065]

Postgraduate: 

The Middle East in Global Order [952M1]

Student Consultation

Summer Term 2011/12

Matin, Kamran (2012) Democracy Without Capitalism: Retheorizing Iran's Constitutional Revolution. Middle East Critique, 21 (1). pp. 37-56. ISSN 1943-6149

Matin, Kamran (2012) Redeeming The Universal: Postcolonialism and the Inner Life of Eurocentrism. European Journal of International Relations. ISSN 1354-0661

Matin, Kamran (2010) Decoding Political Islam: Uneven and Combined Development and Ali Shariati's Political Thought. In: International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity, edited by Robbie Shilliam. Routledge, pp. 108-124. ISBN 9780415577724

Matin, Kamran (2008) The Islamic Republic and The World: Global Dimensions of the Iranian Revolution [Book Review]. Capital & Class (96). pp. 159-161. ISSN 0309-8168

Matin, Kamran (2007) Uneven and Combined Development in World History: The International Relations of State-formation in Premodern Iran. European Journal of International Relations, 13 (3). pp. 419-447. ISSN 1354-0661

Matin, Kamran (2006) Uneven and Combined Development and Revolution of Backwardness: The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: 1906-1911. In: 100 Years of Permanent Revolution: Results and Prospects. Pluto Press. ISBN 0-745-32521-1