Compatibility of ideology and utopia with the political; A Reading of the Relations between State and Society in Iran in the Qajar Era

Document Type : Research Paper

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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran.

Abstract
The state in the Qajar period did not have modern ideological organization as well as effective political and military control tools due to the new conditions resulting from modern politics. Therefore, the change in the political affairs put a difficult situation in front of the Qajar government, so that some of the agents of the official Qajar ideology were skeptical about the way the government operates and its efficiency in the face of the changing conditions, and put the modernization of the government to strengthen the official ideology on their agenda. Also, the modern political affair helped to form utopian plans that believed in changing the status quo in the Qajar period, and the construction of the official ideology of the Qajars in the form of the state did not show the necessary adequacy in the face of these plans. Accordingly, the emergence of modernity and modernity in a way that created the necessary ground for changing the old political order and creating a new political order, caused the effective utopian plans in society to be more effective than the ideological structure of the Qajar state. The present article aims to use the combined theoretical approach of Lacan's political affairs and Mannheim's ideology and utopia, in a descriptive and analytical manner, to investigate and explore the superiority of the existing actions in society in the form of utopian plans compared to the state in the Qajar era.

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Volume 19, Issue 4 - Serial Number 76
No.76
Autumn 2024
Pages 83-120

  • Receive Date 22 July 2024
  • Revise Date 05 November 2024
  • Accept Date 04 December 2024