The Status of Otherness in Creating Meta-discourse of Constitutional Movement and Its Effect on Iran’s Political Development
Subject Areas : Iranian Political Research
1 - دانشیار، واحد قم، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، قم، ایران
2 - دانشجوی دکتری، واحد علوم و تحقیقات، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، قم، ایران
Keywords: Lawfulness, قانون گرایی, تحول گفتمانی, مشروطه استبداد, Constitutionality of Autocracy, Discourse Change,
Abstract :
The utmost effort was made by Iranians for presenting a modern discourse in the constitutional age. Although minutes and elements of such discourse (containment of monarch’s power, freedom and law) not only failed to become hegemonic in Iran’s community, but also one self-willed and oligarchic government called government of Reza Shah emerged from within such discourse and turned dream of legalism of Iranians that was focus of constitutional discourse into a horrible nightmare in the despotic rule night of Reza Shah. This article deals with a study of how constitutional meta-discourse and its effective factors are formed. It is also shown that how subjective pre-structures of the forces affecting the constitutional movement embark on creating foreign identities and so new identity borders are forged within the movement; the central symbol of this movement changes from rule of law to modernization and security. Besides, it will be shown how otherness within social forces leads to zerosome political development and lack of meaningful change in political culture of community. Methodology applied in this article is discourse analysis of Laclau and Mouffe.
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