political science
Salman Sadeghizadeh
Abstract
By now many have considered modernity as an integrated totality that was born and flourished in a given time and in a given location. From this point of view, modernity is incompatible and alien to other territories and cultures, but if we consider modernity as a “cultural text” creating ...
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By now many have considered modernity as an integrated totality that was born and flourished in a given time and in a given location. From this point of view, modernity is incompatible and alien to other territories and cultures, but if we consider modernity as a “cultural text” creating a suitable context for human subjectivity, then we would know it as an omnipresent phenomenon in all the human aggregations. The book Three Rival Versions of Modernity: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty focuses on incompatibilities in understanding modern affairs. Hence it shows the different capabilities inside modernity. Therefore, the central problem of the book has to do with the way of approaching modernity. Though the main part of the book is dedicated to the analysis of six Western thinker’s theories, the last part focuses on Iranian thinkers and analyses their attitudes toward modernity from three different standpoints: exit, voice, and loyalty. Finally, the book could be considered as a precious effort in understanding modernity, which per se could lead Iranian society to adopt a more conscious approach in case of modernity.
political science
Salman Sadeghizadeh
Abstract
Networks of Outrage and Hope is one of the newest explanations about new social movements. Alain Touraine adopted the “new social movements” expression to describe the new forms of societal recourse for change in “post-industrial society” and made it the counterpart for “social ...
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Networks of Outrage and Hope is one of the newest explanations about new social movements. Alain Touraine adopted the “new social movements” expression to describe the new forms of societal recourse for change in “post-industrial society” and made it the counterpart for “social movements” in “industrial society”. Touraine and his students, Castells and Melucci, analyzed the mentioned movements in a completely different social context, although they were not the same in their method. Other thinkers like Offe have focused on economic relations, and Englehart and Pakulski emphasized the cultural nature of these newly apparent movements. Castells in Networks of Outrage and Hope speaks of the network society in which there are the super network of power and super network of counter-power describing new social interactions. In the network society, movements have a hybrid characteristic and are divided into two spheres of places and spaces, which in turn make a new model of actions. Castells refers to this model to analyze the movements in the age of information and reconsider the events in Iceland, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Spain, and the U.S. by applying the mentioned model. The merit of Castells analysis is to introduce a well-coherent theoretical framework to explain the dynamics of movement, and the demerit is omitting the logic of social relations of production and consumption in the studied societies.
political science
Salman Sadeghizadeh; Abdulamir Nabavi
Volume 18, Issue 6 , December 2018, , Pages 189-211
Abstract
Demand for security is the second most essential human need after the physiological necessities to the life which evolves along with the metamorphoses in common life trends and processes and has gotten different aspects. In the modern age, the plaint concept - or an afloat signifier from a postmodernist ...
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Demand for security is the second most essential human need after the physiological necessities to the life which evolves along with the metamorphoses in common life trends and processes and has gotten different aspects. In the modern age, the plaint concept - or an afloat signifier from a postmodernist perspective - of security in the epistemological context created from the classic discourse of national security was related to a signified which was neither inclusive to all the members nor exclusive to the aliens. The mentioned shortage has been fixed through the new articulation of concepts and creation of a new conceptual correlation between the security and justice under a new epistemology embedded in the societal security discourse. In fact, the concept of national security could serve the sustainable security so long as it succeeds to create and insure justice in all societal fields along with boosting the social capital by which the convenience of individuals and social groups is reachable. To do so, adopting a society-based approach instead of a power-based one is necessary. This main is feasible and reachable only by prioritizing the civil society, empowering the society-founded institutions and embedding the policy making in the social and cultural values.
