Memory, narrative and protracted identity conflict in post-revolutionary Iran

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Authors
Masiha Vaala 1
Saeed Zokaei 2
1 Allame Tabatabaei
2 University of Allame Tabatabaei, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
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.
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.
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.
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.

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Society Culture Media
Volume 12, Issue 46
Spring 2023
Pages 35-63

  • Receive Date 26 February 2023
  • Revise Date 27 March 2023
  • Accept Date 21 May 2023