Space and violence in the history of Iran in the fifth and sixth centuries AH

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Associate Professor of the Department of History at Tarbiat Modares University

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Every discourse of power organizes the spaces. The discourses of resistance in their struggle challenge the organized spatial of power and tried to control it. So, the spaces can used like an instrument of struggle by every social group. In spaces that the power and the resistance struggle each other, the violence is inevitable and will intertwined with the space. This study by descriptive-analytical approach and inspire Foucault's theories tries to research the violence-space in the fifth/sixth centuries AH and the struggles the rival discourses for seizing space. The conclusion showed the discourse of power by organize the spaces and use its the military-service employees and rely on the Symbolic violence and by construct of Heterotopias deviation" and "Crisis keeps itself and be permanent. In other hand, the exclusionary people and rebellion groups like beggars, criminals, thieves, corrupt people, nomadic tribes, and religious minorities such as the Ismailis tried to seize the spaces by settling, killing, assassinating, looting, and sometimes fighting. Although both of them failed to eliminate each other, but  they played an important role in weakening each other and creating the grounds for greater crises.

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  • Foucault M.(Spring, 1986), of Other Spaces, translated by Jay Miskowiec, in Diacritics, 16, No. 1, pp. 22-27
  • Johnson, Peter)2006),"Unravelling Foucault’s different spaces", in HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES, Vol. 19 No.4, pp.75-90
Historical Studies
Volume 10, Issue 2
May 2020
Pages 187-213

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