Destruction of memory mechanisms, the project of subject construction in the modern Iran (a critical-sociological study of the Reza Khan era’s cultural policies in the Kurdish regions)
Volume 23, Issue 2, Winter 2022, Pages 98-121
https://doi.org/10.22034/jsi.2023.557359.1601
omid jahangiri, Younes Nourbakhsh
Abstract Perhaps the greatest struggle for others (Kurds) to criticizing the Pahlavi era is the struggle for their right to remember its presence at history.Therefore, narrating and recounting Kurdish regions is more necessary than ever in relation to the Pahlavi regime and the events of that era.The fundamental sociological question of present research will be that how the first Pahlavi government, with the aim of modernizing Iran or in other words promoting ancient nationalism and by a mediating mechanism called reconciliation with the past in a dialectical way, has eliminated the past and memory of its other subjectivities. The aim of this study is to reconnect with a past that reinstates and restores the continuity among others. The mechanisms that mentioned research has recognized as the internal logic of the process of memory destruction include dialectics of the invention of tradition and the destruction of The Kurds Memory, dialectics of education....
.Religious Other in Dialectic of Tolerance and Negation (Critical Reading of the Encounter Between I and the Other)
Volume 20, Issue 1, Spring 2019, Pages 26-48
https://doi.org/10.22034/jsi.2019.38566
Omid Jahangiri, Younes Nourbakhsh
Abstract By an anthological critic, this study attempts to emancipate the other from the dominance of the subject (dominant religious discourse); however, the goal is not to reverse such a relation. But the main objective of this study is to show the fundamental relation between the subject and the other. The concepts which have been born out of theoretical articulation (Burger, Bakhtin, Ranciere) are based on the relation between the subject and the other. By this standpoint, the other is not an object among the plurality of cognition objects to be grasped by the subject. The other, in fact, possesses its subjectivity (cognitive subject), which is lost in every moment due to the mediation of special social, historical, political, and cultural conditions. The question is: What is the relationship between religious pluralism and the intertextuality? In other words, what is the relationship between religious tolerance and I in a social context? By examining research literature, we attempted to identify the relation of the other with the subject regarding the dialectic of tolerance and negation. Following that, we extracted a theoretical-conceptual model to provide the possibility of revealing the complexities of descriptions and analysis. Based on Berger's theory of religion, the subjects obtain a partial autonomy (against the heteronomy of classic standpoint). Therefore, with the help of a marketing religion, the subjects can look for their favorite goods. Through the mediate of this autonomy of subjects (Kantian cognitive subject), the encounter of subjects with the other is not of a one-sided and authoritarian one. Also, this encounter which is replete with dialogue and dialogism (Bakhtinian Dialogue), places the subject among different meanings and signs. These meanings invite the subject to construct logical articulations from the phenomena which rise up against the subject in the market of religion. The hierarchies that reconstruct the other as an object which lacks consciousness get deconstructed, and the other, as a subject, gets liable to cognition of plural objects (Rancerian Politics) which will, in turn, be supplied in this market.