The Nation-State and the (Re)Construction of Religious, Ethnic and Gender Relations

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ID9977458
AutoresAzadeh Kian (0000-0003-1724-790X, autor de correspondencia), Azadeh Kian-Thiebaut (0000-0001-7523-4029, Université Paris Cité, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen57
Número2
Páginas323-328
Fecha de publicación2024-02-22
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIranian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/irn.2024.4
OpenAlexW4392083984
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas8

Nationalism, nationhood, and ethnicity, as Eric Hobsbawm argued, are social processes constructed essentially from above, yet cannot be understood unless also analyzed from below. 1 Inspired by European Orientalism, the intellectual advocates of Western-oriented nationalism attempted to establish a new Iranian identity based on Persian language and Iran's pre-Islamic past. 2 This made Iranian nationalism an attractive ideology for some political elites, and was later endorsed by the Pahlavi dynasty (1925–79) when nationalist ideology replaced Iranianness with Persianity. In this conception, there was no room for the ethnic diversity of a nation-state that is the heir of an ancient empire. The elites’ aspirations to uniformity put pressure on members of ethnic groups to conform their way of life to a new model of Iranianness, Persianized and pro-Western. Every nonconforming element was regarded as a sign of backwardness and possible threat to the modern nation and its territorial integrity

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Backwardness · Empire · Ethnic group · Ethnic nationalism · Identity (music · Ideology · Islam · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Turkey's Politics and Society

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