Nima Shojaei Baghini
Abstract
Most of the programs in Iran which were defined and carried out in the name of “modernization” had nothing to do with the cultural and “indigenous” elements of the country, so, they exacerbated some “crisis” in the field of environment and water. Therefore, it ...
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Most of the programs in Iran which were defined and carried out in the name of “modernization” had nothing to do with the cultural and “indigenous” elements of the country, so, they exacerbated some “crisis” in the field of environment and water. Therefore, it seems that it is necessary to rethink the concepts of “modernization” and “development”; relying on the concept of “tradition” and looking for the “emancipatory social science”, we should try to transform a paradigm which is eliminating and fighting against the concept of “nature”, as Hanna Arendt argued. I believe that the admired documentary entitled “Matricide”, directed by KomeilSohani, which has been showed in Iran and some other countries, with a historical approach, has the capacity to develop such an “emancipatory social science”. This movie has criticized a “technical” approach retrieved from “partial modernization”, and showed that how far previous decisions made by the Iranian politicians, in the same approach, has endanger current Iranian’s life. It seems that the theoretical and methodological approach of the movie is similar to what is bring followed in the field of “new institutionalism”. In this field of study both “historical” and “indigenous” forms of life are considered prominently. Subsequently, by using the approach, we can rethink the foundations of the “modernization” school, which has effected not only on Iran, but on the rest of the world, with its “negative externalities”. Hence, in this article, with emphasis on this approach and that documentary, the researcher criticized the peculiarities of current knowledge in facing the loop of “environmental crisis” and “water crisis” in Iran; then, I emphasis on the “new institutionalism” as an alternative emancipatory paradigm, towards an understanding of the problems of the nature in Iran.
hossein mohammadzadeh; Fereydon Hossein panahi
Abstract
Smith job, forging, has a brilliant history in Sanandaj and its peripheral during the half past century. This job responds to the needs of the people of Sanandaj, Mariwan and Divandara. At the same time, some of the products have been exported to outside the province. This job has special structures, ...
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Smith job, forging, has a brilliant history in Sanandaj and its peripheral during the half past century. This job responds to the needs of the people of Sanandaj, Mariwan and Divandara. At the same time, some of the products have been exported to outside the province. This job has special structures, concepts, and process that with the entrance of the exogenous development, encounter challenges and slumps. nowadays few people engage in smith industrial and some concepts and professional words, technical jargons as a cultural trait are on the verge of destruction. The goal of this study is assessment of structures, concepts and process of smith job in last half century in Sanandaj. The research method is field research and data collection method was interviewing with Smithers and their family. Results shows that in last half century, smith, forging industry had enjoyed a considerable attention and protection by the governor and people. This jobs have fulfilled the needs of people in the city and rural regions. Some of Sanandaj smith production had been nail, knife, key lock, and special dirk. The attention to the local industries and updating them could act as a context for a real development.
morteza farhadi
Abstract
Neglecting traditional knowledge and technologies in our society and most of the third world countries such as our neighbors occurs when constant failure of western style of development plan and universal destroy of environment make later intellectual and far sighted scholars and international organizations ...
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Neglecting traditional knowledge and technologies in our society and most of the third world countries such as our neighbors occurs when constant failure of western style of development plan and universal destroy of environment make later intellectual and far sighted scholars and international organizations such as Fao, Unesco, Brundtland commission and World Bank increasingly take in to account their mistakes towards third world development and neglecting cultural aspects and indigenous knowledge, technologies, management and rationality. They try to compensate their mistakes. However most of the methods of intellectual from traditional societies incessantly follow their own way like that Isfahani fellow who denied confessing his bad handwriting. Here in this article there is an attempt to consider some points of Iran's traditional knowledge and technologies.
