Journal of Iranian Social Studies

Border Areas (with Emphasis on Regional Spatial Justice)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Hosain Mirzaie 1
Hosain Imanijajarmi 1
Hamed Sharifpour 2

1 Associate Professor, Department of Social Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran

2 Ph.D. in Sociology of Social Development, University of Tehran

https://doi.org/10.22034/jss.2024.1972414.1737
Abstract
In addition to the class gap, Iran's border regions also suffer from regional spatial injustice. In the field of social justice and urban spatial justice, a lot of quantitative research has been done in various fields of social sciences, urban planning, etc., but regional spatial justice" has been neglected. This research examines social policies regarding the development of border regions with an emphasis on regional spatial justice with the qualitative method of critical discourse analysis with the Farclough-Laclave and Mouffe approach at the levels of description, interpretation and explanation.
In the post -revolution  5-year development plans, there is no article or note regarding the development of border areas, except, a  part of Article 204 of the Fifth Development Plan, which deals with investment and sustainable livelihood of border dwellers and border industrial towns. Social policies and development plans after the revolution, influenced by layering discourses. in the upper layer, fixed supra-discourse of the government of the Islamic Revolution stands, while in the middle layer, there are variable government discourses, and in the inner layer, there are development discourses. This layering creates a discourse order in which development plans for border areas are articulated as plans emphasizing on regional spatial justice. In these social policies, which are under influence of ideological- discursive formulation, posterior and distributive justice was preferred to a priori and procedural justice. But, the development of Iran's border regions with an emphasis on regional spatial justice, requires a combined approach of procedural-distributive justice and the rule of  an evolutionary discursive  order  instead of   an antagonistic one.
 
 

Keywords

Critical discourse analysis
social policy
development
border
regional spatial justice
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Journal of Iranian Social Studies
Volume 17, Issue 4
Winter 2024
Pages 105-131

  • Receive Date 02 July 2023
  • Revise Date 12 November 2022
  • Accept Date 27 August 2024
  • First Publish Date 22 October 2024
  • Publish Date 22 October 2024

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