Nasser Fakouhi
Dr. Fakouhi holds a PhD in Political Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Paris. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tehran, Senior Researcher in the Housing and Urbanism Research Center, and Publisher and Managing Director of Abnousse Editions. His published works include: Political Violence, Theories, Forms, and Solutions, Political Mythology, Art and Power, From Culture to Development, and Political Anthropology.
By the 1996 Presidential election in Iran, began democratic evolution due to a social dynamism dissimulated until that time. The principal basis of this dynamism is formed by the youth, i.e., a vast stratum whose social presence represents two specific characteristics: 1. It contains a great weight of aspirations and expectations left unsatisfied and consequently critical. 2. It's the main part and the great consumer of political discourse, understanding the social reality as a text.
During the three years of relative liberalization especially in the field of the press, we can consider the movement as a big Agora whose participants, beyond the intellectuals and politicians are millions of university students and high school pupils. The political participation of the youth whose form is a sort of an everyday life ritual, must be considered under a strong influence of the globalization process. This process has been the main factor to introduce some intellectual concepts as the "Civil Society" in the Iranian political discourse. This discourse is one of the most important elements to be considered in the process of "Dialogue among Civilizations" because the dialogue is a good way to encourage an understanding of the world. Our aim, in this article, from a political anthropology point of view, is to describe and to analyse the evolution of this process in social reality amongst the youth.