دانلود کتاب دولت مقاومت – سیاست، فرهنگ و هویت در ایران مدرن

While the Iranian nation-state has long captivated the attention of our media and politics, this book examines a country that is often misunderstood and explores forgotten aspects of the debate. Using innovative multi-disciplinary methods, it investigates the formation of an Iranian national identity over the last century and, significantly, the role of Iranian people in defining the contours of that identity. By employing popular culture as an archive of study, Assal Rad aims to rediscover the ordinary Iranian in studies of contemporary Iran, demonstrating how identity was shaped by music, literature, and film. Both accessible in style and meticulously researched, Rad’s work cultivates a more holistic picture of Iranian politics, policy, and society, showing how the Iran of the past is intimately connected to that of the present. Perhaps the defining political feature of the twentieth century was the proliferation of nation-states in a world previously dominated by a few, mostly European, empires. With the demise of the imperial systemat the end of World War ii and the growing recognition of ideas such as sovereignty and self-determination in the face of colonialism, new nation-states emerged across the globe. The formation of international bodies such as the League of Nations and then the United Nations sanctioned the creation of these entities with legal language that bound people together in novel ways. William Blake famously wrote, “What is now proved was once only imagined,”1 a fitting adage for the case of the nation-state, which, though invented, has proven to be a remarkable force in contemporary society. This study examines the formation of the Iranian nation-state in the twentieth century and the evolution of its national story since then. National identity in Iran is the result of a process of concession and contestation from above and below. As such, this work investigates the oppositional forces from below that challenged the historical production of their governments. Additionally, the study explores the efforts of both the Pahlavi dynasty and the Islamic Republic (IR) to construct national identities that were suitable to their respective nation-building projects.