Foucault's Iran and Islamic Identity Politics Beyond Civilizational Clashes, External and Internal

Autor:	Emad El-Din Aysha
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Intelligentsia Fundamentalism Political Science and International Relations Geography Planning and Development Secularization Islam Environmental ethics Cultural imperialism Sociology Religious studies Modernization theory Muslim world Westernization
Zdroj:	International Studies Perspectives. 7:377-394
ISSN:	1528-3577
DOI:	10.1111/j.1528-3585.2006.00260.x
Popis:	Foucault's writings on the Iranian revolution and the works of the revolutionary Islamist intelligentsia (not the clerics) are of tremendous relevance to social scientists today because they show us a way out of the internal clash of civilizations Islam suffers from. By extension this helps alleviate the confrontation between the civilizations of the West and Islam because culture clash—the fear of cultural imperialism and Westernization—is holding back the forces of modernization in the Muslim world. Iran's revolutionary thinkers, as Foucault demonstrates, were against this standoff. Afary and Anderson's review of the Foucault controversy inadvertently brings this out because the mistakes they make are paradigmatic errors made by the social sciences and many Western (and Eastern) decision-makers; assuming that modernization means secularization means Westernization.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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