Paradigm analysis of the production-oriented policies in Iranian oil & gas industry and the impacts on the local communities (Case of Study: Darkhovein local inhabitant)

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Shahram Farzi ¹ , mansor vosooghi ²

1 - PhD in Political Sociology, Department of Science and Research, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Sociology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-10-09 Accepted : 2020-03-11 Published : 2020-03-18

Keywords: Local community, Grounded Theory, Oil and Gas Industry, Subaltern, Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR),

Abstract :

Darkhovein oil field local community, along last century. have been encountered to sugarcane industries, nuclear power plant and oil and gas industries as three iconic symbols of the industrial development. The production-oriented policies domination, has had the environmental, social, cultural and political implications and caused accumulation of claims and unheard voices of the inhabitants of this geopolitical region. In the current essay by applying Grounded Theory (GT) approach among the oil industry officials and staff, we made an effort to give an explanation to the present status. The policies adopted by oil industry practitioners have been identified in four paradigm models: distrust, ignorance, interest preferences (short-term, individual, organizational) and conditional interaction and within them the Alienation, as the core phenomena, has been emerged. These policies, along with factors such as the lack of, the socio-cultural-environmental context of projects, the newness and lack of integrated implementation of corporate social responsibility(CSR) as well as the normative pressure of the local and corporate subcultures, have yielded various results and affected on the local community both social and individual dimensions. At social dimension,, consequences have led destruction of the traditional economy, the disruption of Indigenous knowledge, pollution and environmental degradation, increasing ethnic-security tensions.َAt individual dimension phenomena as life time job-seeking, feeling hopelessness- inefficiency- powerlessness -isolation, and dependency with mutual distrust have been emerged.