Genealogy of Contemporary Tehran’s Order: With an Emphasis on the Role of Commission of the Fifth Article
Volume 18, Issue 2, Summer 2017, Pages 1-27
A. Dehghani, E. Towfigh
Abstract Tehran is a city which is being reproduced, constantly.This means that the contemporary Tehran was formed when a new logic dominated this reproduction process. This research studied the history of Tehran with a genealogical perspective to find the previous logics and make a clear image of contemporary order of the city, and how and why this order has been generated. From 1989 with the changes in the government’s economic approaches, and in the urban management, a relation has been formed in which the city and space as commodities are being traded. This capitalistic relation is provided by suspension of urban rules. This new form of urban informality becomes possible with help of the urban projects and the authority of management institutions like the Commission of the Fifth Article. Using the theory of urbanization of capital by David Harvey, and the theory of urban informality by Ananya Roy & Nezar AlSayyad, this research tries to analyze the new logic of Tehran and the role of effective factors and forces.
Reflexively examine the impact on the severity of abnormal forms of mechanical solidarity in modern times According to Durkheim's theory Case Study: Tehran, Iran
Volume 10, Issue 2, Summer 2009, Pages 136-177
H Safari, E Tofigh
Abstract This paper tries to criticize the linear (evolutionary) reading of Durkheim`s theory- which ignored all different histories in the favor of dominant history- either at evolutionary material determination level or at the level of its approach to consciousness. for this reason by constructing the concept of gravity of mechanical solidarity proposes a dialectical relationship between various kinds of solidarity in different historical periods. This is primarily based on Giddens`s discontinuist interpretation of modern history and avoiding transitional period approach. Then in empirical level, by operationalzing the above concepts and applying quantitative methods in Tehran, the relationship between gravity of mechanical solidarity and abnormal Forms has been examined. In so doing, the effect of particular concepts inscribed in abnormal Forms on gravity of mechanical solidarity has been revealed. And several phenomena which previous readings were enable to explain or consider them as exceptional has been conceptualized.