The discourse of development in Iran's student movement - a case study of Tahkeem Vahdat

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1 PhD student in Sociology of Economics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

2 Assistant Professor of Department of Social Sciences, Ferdowsi University Of Mashhad (FUM)

3 Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Mashhad, Iran.

4 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad - Iran - Mashhad

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine the approach to the discourse of development in the student movement and specifically the office of Tahakim Vahdat. Considering the historical and substantive role of the student movement, it is important to examine its discourse in the field of crucial concepts such as development as a coherent whole. In this research, the statements and interviews of the influential members of Tahkeem Vahdat office were analyzed with Farclough's critical discourse analysis method. The results show that the discourse of Tahikam Office can be divided into three periods: the 60s to the early 70s, the 70s, and the 80s.In the first period, the approach of dependence on development can be seen, the absence of the sign of development is remarkable, its central value is Islamic jurisprudence, and the desired form of government is the government committed to Islam, and the people are seen in the form of the Islamic Ummah. In the second period, the social democratic approach to development is seen, political development is emphasized, and its central value is civil society and rule of law, and the desired form of government is religious democracy, and people are viewed as citizens with rights. In the third period, the approach to development is similar to the approach of liberalism, and cultural and social development is emphasized, and its central value is civil resistance and the desired form of republican government. In this period, people are considered as active citizens

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Quarterly Journal of Social Development (Previously Human Development)

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Available Online from 23 October 2024

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