Reports
Discussion Papers
No.284 Preliminary Discussions on the Urbanization of Rural Areas in Modern Iran
March 2011
ABSTRACT
In
this
translation
draft
of
the
first
part
of
the
author’s
recently-published
book
in
Japanese,
entitled
as
“Rural-cities
in
Contemporary
Iran:
Revolution,
War
and
the
Structural
Changes
in
the
Rural
Society,”
we
are
presenting
the
preliminary
discussions
on
Iranian
middle-sized
cities
and
towns
which
emerged
in
these
30
years
or
so.
We
start
from
the
explanations
of
the
contents
of
the
above-mentioned
book
and
do
the
reviewing
of
the
preceding
studies,
followed
by
the
critical
review
of
the
studies
on
the
Iranian
revolution
in
1979,
and
the
studies
on
Iran’s
recent
political
trends
and
the
tendencies
towards
the
local
governance,
which
was
tempered
and
collapsed
with
the
appearance
of
President
Ahmadīnejād.
This
consists
of
the
Introduction
and
the
first
parts
of
Chapter
1
of
our
book,
and
we
are
expecting
to
finish
translating
the
whole
contents
and
to
publish
it
in
the
near
future.
We
apologize
for
the
shortcomings
of
this
paper,
for
example
some
partial
lack
of
correspondence
of
its
bibliography
with
the
main
contents,
mainly
because
of
the
technical
reasons.
Keywords:
Iran,
President
Khātamī,
shourā
election,
rūstā-shahr
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