Iranian Association of Cultural Studies & Communication Society Culture Media 2322-3855 12 46 2023 05 22 Memory, narrative and protracted identity conflict in post-revolutionary Iran Memory, narrative and protracted identity conflict in post-revolutionary Iran 35 63 173131 FA Masiha Vaala Allame Tabatabaei Saeed Zokaei University of Allame Tabatabaei, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2023 02 26 Memory politics in post-revolutionary Iran had been the main element in formation of national identity. Post-revolutionary governments using the politicising of memory invent new discourses and expand it for its own legitimation and transcending the reconciled identities. Yet, these politicisation have been non-functional.The dominant memory cultures in post-revolutionary Iran destroyed the relation between memory and identity and made the remembering of revolution ambiguous.<br />Second generation one of the kinds of post-revolutionary generations using the communicative memory for remembering the past and post-memory generation the ones which indeed connect to the traumatic past through cultural memory have faced politicised memory through the effects of institutional memory.<br />In other occasions, politics of memory have been applied to demonstrate part of the past, causing the formation of situated silences, prescribed forgetfulness(amnesia) or staying in victimhood witch will result in contested identities. Narratives of past in in theses generations manifest the elements involved in formation of contest and the applications on compromisation.<br />Since then the contests in post revolutionary groups and its diversity in formation of silences or protests, ends up in protracrted identity conflict and successes or failure of a nation-states. Memory politics in post-revolutionary Iran had been the main element in formation of national identity. Post-revolutionary governments using the politicising of memory invent new discourses and expand it for its own legitimation and transcending the reconciled identities. Yet, these politicisation have been non-functional.The dominant memory cultures in post-revolutionary Iran destroyed the relation between memory and identity and made the remembering of revolution ambiguous.<br />Second generation one of the kinds of post-revolutionary generations using the communicative memory for remembering the past and post-memory generation the ones which indeed connect to the traumatic past through cultural memory have faced politicised memory through the effects of institutional memory.<br />In other occasions, politics of memory have been applied to demonstrate part of the past, causing the formation of situated silences, prescribed forgetfulness(amnesia) or staying in victimhood witch will result in contested identities. Narratives of past in in theses generations manifest the elements involved in formation of contest and the applications on compromisation.<br />Since then the contests in post revolutionary groups and its diversity in formation of silences or protests, ends up in protracrted identity conflict and successes or failure of a nation-states. https://www.jscm.ir/article_173131_e560b620840838ca69dad7867f1a2fdb.pdf