Culture And Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah

Author : Bianca Devos,Christoph Werner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135125530

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Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah by Bianca Devos,Christoph Werner Pdf

Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah presents a collection of innovative research on the interaction of culture and politics accompanying the vigorous modernization programme of the first Pahlavi ruler. Examining a broad spectrum of this multifaceted interaction it makes an important contribution to the cultural history of the 1920s and 1930s in Iran, when, under the rule of Reza Shah Pahlavi, dramatic changes took place inside Iranian society. With special reference to the practical implementation of specific reform endeavours, the various contributions critically analyze different facets of the relationship between cultural politics, individual reformers and the everyday life of modernist Iranians. Interpreting culture in its broadest sense, this book brings together contributions from different disciplines such as literary history, social history, ethnomusicology, art history, and Middle Eastern politics. In this way, it combines for the first time the cultural history of Iran’s modernity with the politics of the Reza Shah period. Challenging a limited understanding of authoritarian rule under Reza Shah, this book is a useful contribution to existing literature for students and scholars of Middle Eastern History, Iranian History and Iranian Culture.

Author : Bianca Devos,Christoph Werner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0203798422

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Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah by Bianca Devos,Christoph Werner Pdf

Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah presents a collection of innovative research on the interaction of culture and politics accompanying the vigorous modernization programme of the first Pahlavi ruler. Examining a broad spectrum of this multifaceted interaction it makes an important contribution to the cultural history of the 1920s and 1930s in Iran, when, under the rule of Reza Shah Pahlavi, dramatic changes took place inside Iranian society. With special reference to the practical implementation of specific reform endeavours, the various contributions critically analyze different facets of the relationship between cultural politics, individual reformers and the everyday life of modernist Iranians. Interpreting culture in its broadest sense, this book brings together contributions from different disciplines such as literary history, social history, ethnomusicology, art history, and Middle Eastern politics. In this way, it combines for the first time the cultural history of Iran's modernity with the politics of the Reza Shah period. Challenging a limited understanding of authoritarian rule under Reza Shah, this book is a useful contribution to existing literature for students and scholars of Middle Eastern History, Iranian History and Iranian Culture.

Author : Nikki R. Keddie,Rudi Matthee
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295800240

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Iran and the Surrounding World by Nikki R. Keddie,Rudi Matthee Pdf

These essays examine Iran�s place in the world--its relations and cultural interactions with its immediate neighbors and with empires and superpowers from the beginning of the Safavid period in 1501 to the present day. The book provides important historical background on recent political and social developments in Iran and on its contemporary foreign relations. The topics explored include Iranian influence abroad on political organization, religion, literature, art, and diplomacy, as well as Iran's absorption of foreign influences in these areas. A special focus is the prevailing political culture of Iran throughout its early modern and contemporary periods. The authors combine approaches from history, political science, anthropology, international relations, and culturalstudies. Some essays address Iran�s interactions with various Arab and Turkic ethnicities in the region stretching from India to Egypt. Others examine its relations with the West during the Qajar and Pahlavi eras, women's issues, culture inside Iran during the Islamic Republic, and the Shi`ite theocracy of Iran as compared with other Muslim states.

Author : M. Reza Behnam
Publisher : Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011565283

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Cultural Foundations of Iranian Politics by M. Reza Behnam Pdf

Author : Nematollah Fazeli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134200382

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Politics of Culture in Iran by Nematollah Fazeli Pdf

This first full-length study of the history of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth century. The text examines how and why anthropology and culture became part of wider socio-political discourses in Iran, and how they were appropriated, and rejected, by the pre- and post-revolutionary regimes. The author highlights the three main phases of Iranian anthropology, corresponding broadly to three periods in the social and political development of Iran: *the period of nationalism: lasting approximately from the constitutional revolution (1906-11) and the end of the Qajar dynasty until the end of Reza Shah’s reign (1941) *the period of Nativism: from the 1950s until the Islamic revolution (1979) *the post-revolutionary period. In addition, the book places Iranian anthropology in an international context by demonstrating how Western anthropological concepts, theories and methodologies affected epistemological and political discourses on Iranian anthropology.

Author : Touraj Atabaki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857713681

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Iran in the 20th Century by Touraj Atabaki Pdf

Political upheaval has marked Iran's history throughout the twentieth century. Wars, revolutions, coups and the impact of modernism have shaped Iran's historiography, as they have the country's history. Originally based on oral and written sources, which underpinned traditional genealogical and dynastic history, Iran's historiography was transformed in the early 20th century with the development of a 'new' school of presenting history. Here emphasis shifted from the anecdotal story-telling genre to social, political, economic, cultural and religious history-writing. A new understanding of the nation state and the importance of identity and foreign relations in defining Iran's place in the modern world all served to transform the perspective of Iranian historiography. Touraj Atabaki here brings together a range of rich contributions from international scholars who cover the leading themes of the historiography of 20th-century Iran, including constitutional reform and revolution, literature and architecture, identity, women and gender, nationalism, modernism, Orientalism, Marxism and Islamism.

Author : Annabelle Sreberny,Massoumeh Torfeh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857722973

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Cultural Revolution in Iran by Annabelle Sreberny,Massoumeh Torfeh Pdf

The Islamic Republic of Iran has entered its fourth decade, and the values and legacy of the Revolution it was founded upon continue to have profound and contradictory consequences for Iranian life. Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address diverse areas of social and cultural innovation that are driving change and progress. While religious conservatism remains the creed of the establishment, this volume uncovers an underground world of new technology, media and entertainment that speaks to women seeking a greater public role and a restless younger generation that organises and engages with global trends online.

Author : Joanna de Groot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857716293

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Religion, Culture and Politics in Iran by Joanna de Groot Pdf

This book offers a new interpretation to the social history of religion in Iran from the 1870s to the 1970s. It aims to situate the 'revolutionary' upheavals of 1977-82 in an extensive narrative context of historical developments over the preceding century, and to relate the 'religious' elements in that history to other social and cultural issues. In the author's analysis, Iran's revolution was complex, and contingent on a range of factors rather than a simple or inevitable outcome of the nature of the Iranian state or the nature of religion in Iran. The focus of the argument is on the human responses of Iranians to their experiences and problems in all their diversity and on the rich variety and complexity of relationships between religion and other aspects of life, thought and culture in the daily life of Iranians.

Author : Nematollah Fazeli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134200375

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Politics of Culture in Iran by Nematollah Fazeli Pdf

This first full-length study of the history of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth century. The text examines how and why anthropology and culture became part of wider socio-political discourses in Iran, and how they were appropriated, and rejected, by the pre- and post-revolutionary regimes. The author highlights the three main phases of Iranian anthropology, corresponding broadly to three periods in the social and political development of Iran: *the period of nationalism: lasting approximately from the constitutional revolution (1906-11) and the end of the Qajar dynasty until the end of Reza Shah’s reign (1941) *the period of Nativism: from the 1950s until the Islamic revolution (1979) *the post-revolutionary period. In addition, the book places Iranian anthropology in an international context by demonstrating how Western anthropological concepts, theories and methodologies affected epistemological and political discourses on Iranian anthropology.

Author : Dal Seung Yu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351882552

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The Role of Political Culture in Iranian Political Development by Dal Seung Yu Pdf

The analysis of the impediments to political development is one of the most important discussions which has major theoretical and political consequences. This analysis has been controversial and many different aspects have been introduced as elements for political underdevelopment. In this study, Dal Seung Yu takes culture, a key element in this discussion, and explains the major cultural impediments to political development in Iran. He focuses on the historical attitudes of people towards the political management of the society and the effect these attitudes have on slowing the development of this political system in the society. Those concerned with Iran, the Middle East and political culture will be extremely interested in this provocative text.

Author : Zhand Shakibi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786726247

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Pahlavi Iran and the Politics of Occidentalism by Zhand Shakibi Pdf

Zhand Shakibi presents a new interpretation of the political and social dynamics of the last decade of the Shah's rule that challenges the binary view of pro-West Shah and anti-West Ayatollah by drawing attention to the Pahlavi state's reaction to the intellectual and societal backlash against cultural and moral Occidentalism in its last decade. Revising the dominant historiography of the Pahlavi ideological and discursive approach to the West, this book draws attention to the changes in the attitude of the Shah, the Empress and state intellectuals towards the position and imagery of the West in state conceptions of the authenticity of Iranian national culture and identity. Drawing on a wide-range of primary sources, Shakibi presents the multi-faceted relationship of the Pahlavi state to the West and the institutions that were created to manage this such as the Rastakhiz Party. This study argues that the Pahlavi state, having recognized this backlash, attempted to limit the threat to its legitimacy by reformulating intellectual discourses of anti-West Occidentalism and incorporating them into the ideology of the Rastakhiz Party. In so doing it played a critical role in exacerbating societal sensitivities about the spread of Western influences.

Author : Robert Steele
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838604196

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The Shah’s Imperial Celebrations of 1971 by Robert Steele Pdf

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Dozens of heads of state descended on Persepolis for these Celebrations, where they were regaled to sumptuous banquets and entertainment. Critical journalists in Western Europe and North America lambasted the Shah for holding such a decadent event while many of his people lived in poverty. Due to the overwhelmingly negative press at the time, the event is still today widely remembered as a catastrophic failure.It is even said by many to have sparked the unrest that eventually led to the revolution and the Shah's downfall in 1979. In this first comprehensive academic study of the 2500th Anniversary Celebrations, Robert Steele looks beyond the pomp and splendour to examine the events' origins, the goals the organisers set out to achieve with them and the extent to which these goals were accomplished. The book seeks to place the Celebrations in the context of the Shah's rise, rather than his fall, uncovering the unparalleled international cultural and scholarly operation that was spurred by the Iranian regime for the occasion, exploring the effects the event had on Iran's tourism industry and questioning narratives of the event's cost.

Author : Michael E. Bonine,Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0873954653

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Modern Iran Dialectics by Michael E. Bonine,Nikki R. Keddie Pdf

Author : Yadullah Shahibzadeh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137536839

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The Iranian Political Language by Yadullah Shahibzadeh Pdf

In this detailed study of modern Iran, Yadullah Shahibzadeh examines changes in people's understanding of politics and democracy. The book aims to overcome the shortcomings of traditional historiography by challenging the monopoly of intellectuals' perspectives and demonstrating the intellectual and political agency of the ordinary people.

Author : Samih K. Farsoun,Mehrdad Mashayekhi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134969463

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Iran by Samih K. Farsoun,Mehrdad Mashayekhi Pdf

Since the Islamic revolutionary movement overthrew the "Peacock Throne" (the Shah) in 1979 the Islamic Republic has maintained its credibility and the loyalty of the people of Iran. It has survived an extremely destructive war with Iraq, isolation from the West and the rest of the Middle East except Syria, and the death of the Ayaltollah Khomeini. This book explores the social transformation of Iran in this period stressing the importance of political culture and ideology. It argues that the systematic building of a legitimate Islamic political culture is the key to the success of the regime. The authors of the book address specific aspects of Iran's political culture within a general theoretical framework laid out in the introduction. There is discussion of a wide range of topics ranging from the relationship of the individual to society to "Westoxication", from Shi'ism to the Islamisation of film culture.