The Iranian Political Language: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781137539779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 246 str.

Yadullah Shahibzadeh

Opis

In this detailed study of modern Iran, Yadullah Shahibzadeh examines changes in people's understanding of politics and democracy. He analyzes the way Iranian intellectuals and ordinary people talk about politics and democracy, individually and collectively, and the ways they rationalize their political postures and actions. He also investigates the historiographies of sociopolitical structures and cultural constructions in Iran. This book overcomes the shortcomings of traditional historiographical approaches by challenging the monopoly of intellectuals' and political elites' perspectives on historical events and by demonstrating the intellectual and political agency of ordinary people.

Recenzje

"The Iranian Political Language revisits Iran's modern social history from the late nineteenth century to the present. This is a critical study of the concept and practice of democracy for ordinary people both in the southern provinces of Iran and among the Iranian intellectuals. This book has potential to generate critical debates on democracy, socialism, egalitarianism, and the role of ordinary people in the quest for democracy in Iran. It contributes to the growing field of history from below in modern Iran." - Mojtaba Mahdavi, University of Alberta, Canada

O autorze

Yadullah Shahibzadeh is Instructor of Middle East Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.