Seyed Sadegh Haghighat; Mohammad Hossein Norouzi
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 08 February 2024
Abstract
Citizenship, as the right of human civil agency, is considered the most fundamental cognitive component and method of governance in the current period. In such a way that one cannot ...
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Citizenship, as the right of human civil agency, is considered the most fundamental cognitive component and method of governance in the current period. In such a way that one cannot talk about democracy without considering citizenship. For this reason, the quality of citizenship and efforts to support and develop it, as well as increasing the bond between citizens and the government, are considered one of the most important criteria in evaluating the quality of governance in countries. Looking at the importance of the citizenship issue in the governance mechanism of the modern era, the following article tries to examine the relationship between identity theories and the issue of citizenship in the era of the Islamic Republic of Iran from a Social Constructionist perspective. The assumption of the article is that the issue of citizenship in the age of the Islamic Republic of Iran will not be realized without considering identity theories, meaning and possibility,and the issues and challenges facing it cannot be identified independently of the relations of identity currents. The results of the research also acknowledge that the issue of citizenship and its development, on the one hand, lies in the context of the relations of identity sources in Iran, and on the other hand, it depends on rethinking the two components of agency and individuality, and thirdly, that each of the identity theories According to their epistemological framework, they have presented a different reading of the issue of identity, and this provides different possibilities in relation to the
