Letter from an Iranian Village

Hooglund, Eric

doi:10.1525/jps.1997.27.1.00p0165m

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“…For example, “the brick houses did not resemble the former homes” but more resemble “the style of Iranian urban homes…. This is a striking evidence of a major improvement in living standards in a village where most families in 1979 had lived at a basic subsistence level” (Hooglund, 1997, p. 79). Indeed, contrary to the perception of the Islamic Republic as a traditionalist regime, post-revolutionary planned developments have provided non-traditionalist styles of living in the countryside where now embraces modernity more than ever before.…”

Section: Rural Reforms Macro Developments and Village-level Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As many researchers (e.g., Ehsani, 2006; Hooglund, 1997; Sartipour, 2012) have pointed out in more detail, particular aspects of post-revolutionary rural change have been manifested in different aspects of rural morphology and architecture particularly from the viewpoint of building materials and techniques as well as the organization of space. For instance, Cinderblock construction ( boluk ) has replaced timber for wall construction, galvanized iron ( halab ) has replaced straw and rush as a roof covering, and the saddle roof has replaced pointed and hipped roofs.…”

Section: Rural Reforms Macro Developments and Village-level Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rural Development in Iran: A Survey of Policies and Outcomes

Shakoori

2019

Journal of Developing Societies

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This article examines secular changes in post-revolutionary rural Iran by focusing on rural social attitudes, social stratification, demography, morphology, and architecture. Offering a review of major rural reforms, it contends that although in the first two decades after the revolution, rural communities were primarily affected by state policies, they have been chiefly influenced by macro developments since then, nationally or globally. Rural change has been associated with the integration of the rural structure into the modern structure rather than adhering to the state-specific rural reforms and/or its ideological imperatives. The article concludes that such developments have resulted in greater access to modern amenities and paved the way for rural communities to adopt modern changes that were not necessarily on the government’s ideological agenda. Hence, the revolutionary objectives of an equal distribution of rural development benefits and combating rural poverty remain elusive.

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Section: Rural Reforms Macro Developments and Village-level Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%