Abstract
Historical facts show that national identity is a constant process and should be noted here that when a nation is formed, it does not continue by itself and the notion that it does not require any effort is wrong. On the contrary, the nation are exposed to ups and downs. Thus, discourse-based products ...
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Historical facts show that national identity is a constant process and should be noted here that when a nation is formed, it does not continue by itself and the notion that it does not require any effort is wrong. On the contrary, the nation are exposed to ups and downs. Thus, discourse-based products of a country's currents can affect nation-building processes. Identity as social foundations emerge in the process of social foundationalism with reliance on collective memory and all epistemological sources, taking into account that social objective structure redefines and re-interprets with the passage of time. They are constantly used for reinterpretation in light of different methods used to explain the concept.
The leftist flow or what the researcher names it socialism Marxism, is selected as one of the influential flows in contemporary Iranian history for the following research. This paper, while comprehending the evolution of national identity in the course of history, has come to a pattern of identity discourse in the mentioned flow.
Rasoul Safizadeh
Abstract
The rise and spread of Salafi-Takfiri movements is one of the subjects that has seriously attracted the attention of socio-political analysts. Perhaps can be told, ISIS is the most radical Takfiri group that world has ever seen already. ISIS has been shaped from very different composition such as literates, ...
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The rise and spread of Salafi-Takfiri movements is one of the subjects that has seriously attracted the attention of socio-political analysts. Perhaps can be told, ISIS is the most radical Takfiri group that world has ever seen already. ISIS has been shaped from very different composition such as literates, illiterates, religious fanatics, children, women, and foreigners. More than 550 Muslim women has been attained to ISIS from western countries. In this research, by explanative and discursive methodology with emphasis on theoretical framework of Lacla and Moffe, has been tried to answer this question: what is the position of women in ISIS’ discourse and why? In answer to this question, the hypothesis is that: in ISIS discourse by axis of Islam as central signifier and important factor in making of Islamic State (Caliphate), the women has high position beside of men due to these reasons: breeding in the path of making Islamic Society (Ommah), jihadi mothers for consolidation of Islamic society, emancipation of Muslim women from secular society and suicide attacks and intimidating of the west.
hasan majidi; mohsen rahiminia
Abstract
This article tries to address the issues of the eleventh presidential election, and discusses the conduct of Dr. Hassan Rouhani's election discourse as a candidate for the presidential election of the eleventh period, and to answer by means of discourse analysis method the question of "how the hegemony ...
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This article tries to address the issues of the eleventh presidential election, and discusses the conduct of Dr. Hassan Rouhani's election discourse as a candidate for the presidential election of the eleventh period, and to answer by means of discourse analysis method the question of "how the hegemony of the discourse of moderation in the eleventh presidential election is explained? In this research, our claim is that t The claim of the article is that the components of the victorious candidate discourse in the eleventh presidential election are more based on the diverse articulation of different slogans, myths and alteration in its relation to the discourse governing the tenth government, the availability and credibility of the discourse of moderation in society and having a political subjectivity can be analyzed. The findings of this paper show that the discourse of moderation in the discursive struggle was more hegemonic due to the position of subjectivity and political subjectivity, more active and coherent, the use of the process of marginalization and highlighting, more effective access and credibility than other competing discourses.
afshin mottaghi
Abstract
Discourse analysis is related to space as well as text; according to Henri Lefebvre space can be accompanied by three concepts of Dominance, Creation, and Adjustment. In Iran’s heterogeneous lands with diverse identities, based on geographical, structural, and meaningful traits of time, a discourse ...
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Discourse analysis is related to space as well as text; according to Henri Lefebvre space can be accompanied by three concepts of Dominance, Creation, and Adjustment. In Iran’s heterogeneous lands with diverse identities, based on geographical, structural, and meaningful traits of time, a discourse will be started which according to its meaning system will make a kind of dominant pattern. This little discourses in different regions, based on their space, are in accordance or discordance with each other. The major viewpoints: Security, Economics, Political, and Cultural lead into organizing cause and effect in a discourse analysis caused by administrative divisions. The main question of this study is that based on heterogeneous lands in different states of Iran and major discourse in administrative divisions, how cause and effects on regional basis lead us to harmony? In desired organization of space, the main reason of main discourse must have such power that the dominance caused by it could keep marginal regions in close relations in order to re-articulation of buoyant reasons in a chain, make room for more harmony.
Amir Mohammad Haji-Yousefi; Maryam Joneidi
Abstract
This paper argues that there is a strong conceptual connection between the international crises such as what happened in September 11, 2001 in the United States and the process of identity construction not only in the Western countries` foreign policy in general and the U.S. foreign policy in particular ...
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This paper argues that there is a strong conceptual connection between the international crises such as what happened in September 11, 2001 in the United States and the process of identity construction not only in the Western countries` foreign policy in general and the U.S. foreign policy in particular but also in the emergence and expansion of the the terrorist groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Ourmain question is how the anti-terorism discourse emerged after the 9/11 facilitated the emergence and expansion of ISIS? Our main hypotheis is that the anti-terorism discourse created an image of Muslims as terrorists which in turn led to the radicalization of Muslims and identification of themselves as anti-systemic forces. This new identity was created as a result of the overarching anti-terorist discourse after 2001. To answer our question, we survey the Foreign Policy Magazine from 2001 to 2004 and through content analysis of articles and interviews published in this period, try to demonstrate how the anti-terorism discourse led to Muslims identifying themselves as forces against the international system dominated by the Western countries.
Morteza Noormohammadi; Hojjat Kazemi
Volume 4, Issue 12 , July 2015, , Pages 87-113
Abstract
Cultural Iranophobia is a phenomenon that resembles the Persian Gulf
countries’ fear of Iran’s identity and culture. This fear comes from an unreal
presumption that they have given to Iran’s cultural components and foundations.
According to this way of thinking, a system of meaning ...
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Cultural Iranophobia is a phenomenon that resembles the Persian Gulf
countries’ fear of Iran’s identity and culture. This fear comes from an unreal
presumption that they have given to Iran’s cultural components and foundations.
According to this way of thinking, a system of meaning has been constructed in
their view, that we can call it a “discourse”. This discourse consists of many
elements like Shiism, Iranian nationality and the revolutionary nature. This
phenomenon can have irreparable effects on Iran’s cultural image and
landscape. It can also hinder Iran’s strategies and programs for extension of its
culture to the regional and global cultural space. Hence, this research tries to
analyze the role of culture in genesis of cultural Iranophobia in the Persian Gulf
states and bring up the question about the the genesis of cultural Iranophobia in
countries in Persian Gulf arena. The hypothesis of this research is that dualism
between Arab and Ajam [non-Arab], intervention modeling and Conservative /
revolutionary attitude are elements of Iranophobia in the Persian Gulf state; and
these elements are intensified by Iran’s enemies and created a horrifying image
from the Islamic Republic of Iran, so it will reduces Iran’s cultural relations.
