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The Political Economy of Iran - Development, Revolution and Political Violence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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The Political Economy of Iran - Development, Revolution and Political Violence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Political Economy of Islam
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This study entails a theoretical reading of the Iranian modern
history and follows an interdisciplinary agenda at the intersection
of philosophy, psychoanalysis, economics, and politics and intends
to offer a novel framework for the analysis of socio-economic
development in Iran in the modern era. A brief review of Iranian
modern history from the Constitutional Revolution to the Oil
Nationalization Movement, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and the
recent Reformist and Green Movements demonstrates that Iranian
people travelled full circle. This historical experience of
socio-economic development revolving around the bitter question of
"Why are we backward?" and its manifestation in perpetual
socio-political instability and violence is the subject matter of
this study. Michel Foucault's conceived relation between the
production of truth and production of wealth captures the essence
of hypothesis offered in this study. Foucault (1980: 93-94)
maintains that "In the last analysis, we must produce truth as we
must produce wealth; indeed we must produce truth in order to
produce wealth in the first place." Based on a hybrid methodology
combining hermeneutics of understanding and hermeneutics of
suspicion, this monograph proposes that the failure to produce
wealth has had particular roots in the failure in the production of
truth and trust. At the heart of the proposed theoretical model is
the following formula: the Iranian subject's confused preference
structure culminates in the formation of unstable coalitions which
in turn leads to institutional failure, creating a chaotic social
order and a turbulent history as experienced by the Iranian nation
in the modern era. As such, the society oscillates between the
chaotic states of socio-political anarchy emanating from
irreconcilable differences between and within social assemblages
and their affiliated hybrid forms of regimes of truth in the
springs of freedom and repressive states of order in the winters of
discontent. Each time, after the experience of chaos, the order is
restored based on the emergence of a final arbiter (Iranian
leviathan) as the evolved coping strategy for achieving conflict
resolution. This highly volatile truth cycle produces the
experience of socio-economic backwardness and violence. The
explanatory power of the theoretical framework offered in the study
exploring the relation between the production of truth, trust, and
wealth is demonstrated via providing historical examples from
strong events of Iranian modern history. The significant policy
implications of the model are explored. This monograph will appeal
to researchers, scholars, graduate students, policy makers and
anyone interested in the Middle Eastern politics, Iran, development
studies and political economy.
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