Creating an Islamic State

Martín, Vanessa

doi:10.5040/9780755611850

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“…Through the practices and rhetoric of Shi'a revolutionary activism, and a cultural 'remoralisation' project, Khomeini advanced a distinctly non-Western variety of modernity through the establishment of an Islamic republic. 61 The centrality of culture in postrevolutionary reorganisation was made clear in Khomeini's statement that 'We have not made the revolution for cheap melons. We have made it for Islam'.…”

Section: The Accumulation Of Revolutionary Energy In the Build-up To ...mentioning

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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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Section: The Accumulation Of Revolutionary Energy In the Build-up To ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Tazmini

2021

Third World Quarterly

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“…In Iraqi exile during the late 1960s he further developed his early idea that in the time of the greater occultation 'general agents' of the Imām would be his rightful representatives in political matters. 69 Back then teaching religious seminary students in Najaf, he delivered a series of lectures between 21 January and 8 February 1970 in which he elaborated his views on the 'guardianship of the jurist' (velāyat-e faqīh), 70 later published under the title Ḥokūmat-e eslāmī ('Islamic government'). 71 Here he argued that during the infallible Imām's occultation, the jurisconsult (faqīh) has the mandate and the responsibility not only to teach the Islamic community on matters of personal affairs -representing the quietist position promoted by most leading Ayatollahs in Iran and Iraq until the 1960s -but also to guide the people "in the social realm, and to manage the state's affairs on behalf of the Imām.…”

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Khomeini’s Face is in the Moon. Limitations of Sacredness and the Origins of Sovereignty

Gölz¹

2017

Sakralität Und Heldentum

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“…This was the embodiment of Khomeini's Vilayat-i Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist), an ideology that was developed in the 1960s, disseminated through tapes and published in 1970 in his book Hukumat-i Islami (Islamic Government). 44 Despite the pressure to vote 'yes', the referendum is upheld as evidence for the popularity of the Islamic Republic being of 'the people' 45 , and therefore its populist credentials and its legacy of subalternity.…”

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The legacy of subalternity and Gramsci’s national–popular: populist discourse in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Holliday

2016

Third World Quarterly

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Drawing on Laclau's concept of populist discourse and Gramsci's 'national-popular collective will', and using the case of Iran, this article puts forward the idea of legacy of subalternity in the context of post-revolution governments. The concept of 'national-popular collective will' facilitates an understanding of how the popular subject is constructed and the meanings embedded in that process. It is argued that Islamic Republic elites articulate a populist discourse that constructs the 'self' (the Islamic Republic) as synonymous with 'the people'. Embedded in this discursive construction is a legacy of subalternity that goes back to the 1979 Revolution's populist discourse.

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Creating an Islamic State

Cited by 78 publications

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

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

Khomeini’s Face is in the Moon. Limitations of Sacredness and the Origins of Sovereignty

The legacy of subalternity and Gramsci’s national–popular: populist discourse in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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