SOAS Research Online

Book Chapters

Biglari, Mattin and Muojama, Olisa Godson (2023) 'Global Histories of Environment and Labour in Asia and Africa.' In: O'Gorman, Emily, San Martín, William, Carey, Mark and Swart, Sandra, (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History. London: Routledge, pp. 247-260.

Biglari, Mattin (2023) 'Iranian Oil Nationalisation as Decolonisation: Historiographical Reflections, Global History, and Postcolonial Theory.' In: Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh and Steele, Robert, (eds.), Iran and Global Decolonisation: Politics and Resistance After Empire. London: Gingko, pp. 101-133.

Biglari, Mattin (2023) 'Making Oil Men: Expertise, Discipline and Subjectivity in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s Training Schemes.' In: Fuccaro, Nelida and Limbert, Mandana, (eds.), Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil: Histories and Ethnographies of Black Gold. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 221-248.

Vali, Murtaza, Rojo Jimenez, Maria Esperanza, Biglari, Mattin, Fuccaro, Nelida, Hindelang, Laura and Sohrabi, Sanaz (2022) 'Petromobilities in the Global South.' In: Karlsen, Anne Szefer and Nyman, Helga, (eds.), Experiences of Oil. Trondheim: Museumsforlaget, pp. 50-71.

Biglari, Mattin (2019) 'A State of "Tribal Lawlessness"? Rural and Urban Crime in Fars Province, 1910-1915.' In: Cronin, Stephanie, (ed.), Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The ‘Dangerous Classes’ since 1800. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 117-134.

Journal Article

Biglari, Mattin and Abdul Razak, Rowena (2023) 'Resource Imperialism and Resistance: Labour, Security and Social Reproduction after Iranian Oil Nationalisation.' Journal of Energy History, 9.

Biglari, Mattin (2015) '"Captive to the Demonology of the Iranian Mobs": U.S. Foreign Policy and Perceptions of Shi’a Islam During the Iranian Revolution, 1978-79.' Diplomatic History, 40 (4). pp. 579-605.

Book Reviews

Biglari, Mattin (2023) 'Review of: 'Social histories of Iran: modernism and marginality in the Middle East' by Stephanie Cronin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 306 pp., £22 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-316-64125-5.' Middle Eastern Studies, 59 (5). pp. 857-860.

Biglari, Mattin (2021) 'Review of Mangol Bayat, 'Iran’s Experiment with Parliamentary Governance: The Second Majles, 1909-1911' (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020).' Middle Eastern Studies, 57 (4). pp. 686-688.

Biglari, Mattin (2021) 'Review of: On Barak, 'Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization' (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2020)168-72.' Middle Eastern Studies, 57 (1). pp. 168-172.