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The Taboo of Virginity
Sigmund Freud, Translated by: Faramarz Motamed
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How do you see the crisis of motivation and the crisis of legitimacy in Iran today?
Vahid Asghari
The basis, territory, extent, and manner of government intervention in social and economic affairs are one of the most fundamental issues of public law. The three theories of classics, welfare states, and neoclassical in general economic law have been formed in this direction. In the analysis of Habermas's critical approach and considering the relationship between legitimacy and intervention, the modern liberal government is in a contradictory situation. The Islamic Republic of Iran, as one of the last surviving political-ideological systems of the 20th century, continues to exist in spite of the difference in the new atmosphere ruling the national and international arena. Undoubtedly, the continuation of this process requires the system to adapt to the new requirements of the world community, including the paradigm of political development. Considering this issue, the main question that is raised is, what are the reasons for the crisis of legitimacy and crisis of efficiency in the political system of the Islamic Republic of Iran? And what is the way out of these crises?
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Immanuel Wallerstein’s Thousand Marxisms
مصاحبه با امانوئل والرشتاین، برگردان فارسی: امانوئل شکریان
Immanuel Wallerstein saw his scholarship as a “political task” in the fight against the capitalist system. In this interview — published for the first time in English — he reflected on the historical impulses behind his work, in the age of the Vietnam War and the decline of Soviet socialism.
FTJ Issue No. 12
Solar Calendar and the Development of Iranian Identity
Abbas Amanat
This essay aims to answer two interrelated questions: first, what are the circumstances leading to the adoption of the solar Hijra calendar? And second, how viable it is to view the Persian calendar as a distinct feature of Iran’s national identity, given all the challenges it has encountered over the past four decades? This essay is part of a forthcoming book in Persian, Gahshomari-ye Khorshidi va Hoviyyat-e Irani, which explores the cultural significance of timekeeping in Iran in pre-modern and modern times.
FTJ Issue No. 12
The University’s Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and the State: A Century of Tension and Mistrust
Saeed Paivandi
Despite the remarkable quantitative growth, higher education in Iran has failed to achieve autonomy and academic freedom. This article investigates the reasons for this historical failure and the role of governments in violating university autonomy and academic freedom.
FTJ Issue No. 12
One Century and Two Uprisings: Toward the Women’s Liberation Movement (FTJ)
Mansoureh Shojaee
The phenomena of the girls of Revolution Street and White Wednesdays in the late nineties, the seeds were sown in women's everyday struggles for the emergence of the women’s movement in a new way, leading up to the Iranian #MeToo movement. This article enumerates the characteristics of the present stage of women’s liberation in Iran and acknowledges the role and effect of those who prepared the women's rights movement to advance in this way. With reference to a two-stage definition moving from the legal movement to the women's freedom movement, this article examines the impact of individual and collective contributions towards the women's freedom movement in Iran.
FTJ Issue No. 12
Investigating the “Oil Curse Theory”: Political Economy and Development in the Pahlavi Period and the Islamic Republic
Nima Emdadi
The oil curse theory emphasizes that the damages that oil has imposed on oil-owning nations are more than its benefits. This study engages the oil curse theory to examine historical planning and organization issues around oil in Iran in a political perspective with a focus on the history of oil revenues in the country.
FTJ Issue No. 12
Intermediary Intellectuals, Civil Society, Democratization, Women, and Labor Movements in Iran Over the Past Twenty Years
Hadi Miri Ashtiani
This article examines the role of civil society organizations in the formation of social movements over the last twenty years in Iran. Civil society can be considered as an area between social, economic, and cultural sub-systems in which the focus is on non-governmental organizations, labor unions, trade unions, and voluntary organizations, such as guilds
FTJ Issue No. 12
Clergy and the Turn of the Century: From Clergy Against Power to Clergy in Power
Mohsen Mottaghi
This article examines the development of the clergy in the fourteenth SH century. The article examines religious fundamentalism led by Misbah Yazdi, who favored the implementation of Sharia law, as well as Muslim reformers or neo-thinkers who wished to activate the republic and implement modern procedures within the government and the clergy. The article focuses on presenting the perspectives of two mujtahids from outside the government, Mehdi Haeri Yazdi and Seyyed Kamal Heydari, who support the participation of the people in government and their representation in the occultation era.
FTJ Issue No. 12
Iran and the Shift Towards Nonviolence in Post-Revolutionary Generations
Mehrdad F. Samadzadeh
One of the developments coinciding with the turn of the century in Iran that has shaped the society’s political culture and revolutionary discourse is the shift towards a non-violent method of political struggle, which is clearly seen in the mode of thought and behavior of post-revolutionary generations. This discourse aims at uniting diverse groups of people against the institution of velayat-e faqih through a conceptual appeal to human honor. Historical parallels may be seen in the way that the idea of a House of Justice (Edalat Khaneh) functioned during the Constitutional era as a central and unifying concept across diverse groups. This paper asseses how, at the threshold of a new century, Iran might achieve historical political change through non-violence, especially with reference to excluded and marginalized groups. This prospect is discussed with particular reference to Mohandas Gandhi and Judith Butler and especially engages strategic and philosophical views of non-violence from secular and radical perspectives.
FTJ Issue No. 12
The Islamic Republic’s “Look to the East” policy and the Formation of a New World Order
Kazem Alamdari
The purpose of this article is to study the "Look to the East" policy of the Islamic Republic in the context of the formation of the new world order around the two axes of liberal democracy and dictatorship. Russia's attempt to regain its past superpower position and China's "New Silk Road" economic project are two columns of the formation of the new world order.
FTJ Issue No. 12
Secular Shift Among Iranians: Findings from Cross-national & Longitudinal Surveys
Mansoor Moaddel
To what extent do Iranians reject the foundational principle of the Islamic regime and support secular politics? This paper contends that in 2020, 70% of Iranian adults supported the separation of religion and politics and 30% otherwise, but no more than 9% strongly favored an Islamic political system. These figures rest on the analysis of data from 2000, 2005, and 2020 surveys carried out in the country, and well-over twenty cross-national and longitudinal surveys in other Middle Eastern countries in the past twenty years – a total of more than 70,000 face-to-face interviews
FTJ Issue No. 12
What Drives Iran’s Population Rejuvenation Policy?
Nadereh Chamlou
In spring/summer of 2022, amid backbreaking crises and sanctions, the Islamic Republic pushed a ‘population rejuvenation policy’ with a ‘double-urgent’ legislative priority through Parliament, the Guardian Council, and readied it for quick implementation, despite extensive public opposition to its debatable mechanisms. This article argues that the Islamic Republic is less concerned with the future graying of Iran’s population and more worried about rebuilding its eroding political base.
IAJ Issue No.9
A Typology of Transgressive Thought in Iran [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Arash Ghajarjazi
Article of Arash Ghajarjazi in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition of ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
Heroic and everyday life in savooshoon [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Nader Nasiri
Article of Nader Nasiri in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition of ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
Women’s perceptions of overall health and unsafety in urban spaces: A qualitative and case study based analysis of Tehran’s urban areas [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Zohreh Rajabi
Article of Zohreh Rajabi in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - Special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
Iran’s Women Enduring ‘Coercive Control’ During COVID-19 [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Hamideh Saberi
Article of Hamideh Saberi in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
Erga Omnes Obligations in International Human Rights Law and Unwillingness of the I.R. of Iran to Obey [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Mahmoud Masaeli
Article of Mahmoud Masaeli in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
Complex of Problems, Inertia of Thought and the Evil of Vulgarity [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Mohammad Reza Nikfar
Article of Mohammad Reza Nikfar in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
A Critical Commentary on Critical Psychologies [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Emanuel Shokrian
Article of Emanuel Shokrian in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
Examining The Position Of Women’s Voices In The Field Of Iranian Music From Long Ago To Today [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Shakiba Rahmani
Article of Shakiba Rahmani in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
The “Quiet Encroachment” Of Women Peddlers In Tehran’s Subway [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Shima Tadrisi, Fatemeh Sadeghi
Article of Shima Tadrisi in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
Middle Class Collapse And The Emerging Of New Urban Poor (Case Study: Tehran) [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Hadi Miri Ashtiani
Article of Hadi Miri Ashtiani in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
The Process Of Islamization Of Education In Iran And Its Consequences [Conf. Paper]
Article of Susanne Rabiei in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
Mostafa Rahimi – Towards A Democratic Socialism [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Yashar Taj Mohammadi
Article of Yashar Taj Mohammadi in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
The Establishment Project In Modern Thought: Rethinking The Reception Of Descartes’s Discours De La Méthode In Contemporary Intellectuals In Iran (De Gobineau, Afzal-Ul-Malik Kermani, And Mohammad Ali Foroughi) [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Navid Gorgin
Article of Navid Gorgin in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
Intellectuals and Social Movements in Iran in the Fourteenth SH Century: The Narrative of a Century of Ups and Downs [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Farhad Khosrokhavar, Saeed Paivandi
Article of Farhad Khosrokhavar and Saeed Paivandi in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
The Looking East Strategy and the Turn of the Century [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Kazem Alamdari
Article of Kazem Alamdari in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
One Century and Two Uprisings Toward the Women’s Liberation Movement [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Mansoureh Shojaee
Article of Mansoureh Shojaee in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference
IAJ Issue No.9
The Primary Changes in Gender-Related Activism in Iran in the Past 100 Years [Conf. Paper]
Conference Paper - Nayereh Tohidi
Article of Nayereh Tohidi in the Iran Academia Journal - Volume 9 - special edition for ICCI Conference