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Séminaire Actualités de la recherche avec Javad Karimi Jafari, autour de son mémoire sur les concepts de populisme appliqué au cas iranien (Responsable : Clara Lucas)

Invité : Javad Karimi Jafari est masterant à l’université de Téhéran.  Il travaille sur les concepts de populisme appliqués à l’Iran. Pour ce dernier, le concept de populisme appliqué à l’étude de la révolution constitutionnaliste iranienne de 1905 et la révolution islamique de 1979 est réductionniste, et doit être interrogé à l’aune des mouvements contemporains, dans une version émancipatrice. 

Discutant·es : Clara Lucas et Luis Emaldi Azkue

Résumé: This proposal aims to investigate the relation between emancipatory populism and the socio-political changes of contemporary Iran. The overarching paradigm of populism generally formulates the Iranian type of this phenomenon ‘as an exclusionary ideology constructed on the dichotomy of the pure people (lower classes and ordinary people in specific), often led by a charismatic leader who advocates the supremacy of the people over the elite, versus the internal and external corrupt elites (the so-called ‘Imperialist Enemies’ and ‘opposition groups’). This type of populism, which could be named “reactionary populism”, has acted as a reactionary force against socio-political changes. Yet, according to the discursive and action-oriented aspects of the major socio-political changes in Iranian history such as the Constitutional (1905-6) and Islamic (1979) revolutions, an alternate formation of populism could be proposed in which ‘an inclusionary politics’ is constructed on the dichotomy between the ‘oppressed’ people (all major social strata) often led by ‘popular’ leaders who aim to construct a just governance, and the ‘oppressor governor’ (such as despotic and dictator monarchs). This research further explores how this proposed formation of populism plays a vital mediator in the realization of socio-political changes. By the mediation of the “discursive and social actions” that formed the socio-political changes of contemporary Iran, and by applying the methods of “conceptual history” and “critical discourse analysis”, this research seeks to deconstruct the former paradigm of populism and further formulating ‘the emancipatory populism’ as a new Iranian populist paradigm in the contemporary Iranian context.'

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