Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran

Tazmini, Ghoncheh

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“…(1) Functional analysis or the analysis of the dysfunctionalities of subsystems within the driving forces of social acceleration. In this context, several studies have already been carried out which contributed radical social changes to the dysfunctionalities of social systems, for example, due to the rapid implementation of modernization plans in a top-down, autocratic way (Huntington, 1968;McDaniel, 1991;Tazmini, 2012). Under such conditions may occur paradoxical condition of "deceleration through acceleration."…”

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Time and social change in non-western societies: The 1979 Iranian revolution as case study

Poornik

2023

Time & Society

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This article aims to propose an explanatory model for social changes in terms of the temporal aspects of society. It begins with a theory of modern society (theory of social acceleration) and discusses why the explanations of social change and stability in non-western societies are required from a time perspective. It uses Iranian society as a case study, arguing that the processes of modernization may shape differently depending on certain social, cultural, and religious relations. In this light, it identifies the main features of the cycle of acceleration formed in Iranian society to answer the question of why the cycle of acceleration could not establish a self-propelling acceleratory formation. To explain the revolution of 1979, this article proposes a modified model of self-interpretation.

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Time and social change in non-western societies: The 1979 Iranian revolution as case study

Poornik

2023

Time & Society

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“…(1) Functional analysis or the analysis of tensions and the (dys)functionalities of sub-systems within the driving forces of social acceleration. In this context, several studies have already carried out which contributed radical social changes to the dysfunctionalities of social systems, for example, due to the rapid implementation of modernization plans in a top-down, autocratic way (Huntington, 1968;McDaniel, 1991;Tazmini, 2012;Ritter, 2018). Apart from political reasons, from the perspective of social acceleration, dysfunctionality may occur when a highly accelerating sector develops within the economic motor of social acceleration without establishing adequate functional linkages with other sectors.…”

Section: Acceleration In Non-western Societies: a Critical Assessmentmentioning

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Revised model of social change and acceleration: the case of Iranian society in the 1960s and 1970s

Poornik

2022

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This article aims to address the processes of social changes in terms of the theory of social acceleration. It begins with an outline of the theory of social acceleration and discusses how an investigation into the driving forces of social acceleration can be used to explain the dynamics of social stability and change. It criticizes the acceleration theory because its focus is merely on high-industrialized western societies as well as the neglect of normative and religious aspects in the processes of social acceleration and change. This article proposes a revised model of social acceleration and applies it to Iranian society. It identifies the main features of acceleration-cycle formed in Iranian society in the 1960s and 1970s to answer the question of why the cycle of acceleration could not establish a self-propelling acceleratory formation as a prime requirement for preserving social stability.

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“…Following the coup, heightened repression, coupled with Mohammad Reza Shah's state-imposed Westernisation campaign, a form of 'modernisation without modernity', contributed to a growing sense of alienation amongst the Iranian intelligentsia. 50 The Iranian literati characterised the post-coup years as a period of 'strangulation', 'loneliness' and 'nothingness'. 51 Perceptions of the West as the bastion of democratic principles quickly faded and a new revolutionary discourse emerged calling for national independence and a return to authentic culture.…”

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‘Westoxication’ and resistance: the politics of dance in Iran #dancingisnotacrime

Tazmini

2021

Third World Quarterly

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This study proposes an alternative analytical framework for the interpretation of the arrest of an Iranian teenage female social media star by regime authorities in May 2018. I argue that the regime's reaction to the youngster's dancing was a product of a complicated historical dialectic with the West, rather than an objection to dance as a performative category. While the Iranian regime may have inherited the predominantly negative perceptions of the solo female dancing body from the Pahlavi era, dancing is not a crime in post-revolutionary Iran. However, dance is 'meaning in motion', and it can be inscribed and reinscribed with political, cultural and social markers -depending on the motives of the spectator. This paper argues that it was the meaning ascribed to the teen's dancing by hardline authorities that led to her arrest, and not the act of dancing itself. By historicising and framing the arrest within the discourse of 'Westoxication', this study interprets the arrest as a form of state-centric cultural resistance. The site of cultural contestation, the youngster's dancing body became the discursive and ideological terrain on which the regime repudiated Western cultural norms in defence of its own post-revolutionary standards of decency and cultural authenticity.

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Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran

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Time and social change in non-western societies: The 1979 Iranian revolution as case study

Time and social change in non-western societies: The 1979 Iranian revolution as case study

Revised model of social change and acceleration: the case of Iranian society in the 1960s and 1970s

‘Westoxication’ and resistance: the politics of dance in Iran #dancingisnotacrime

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