Pathology of the current pattern of political organization of Iran's space within the framework of the of the system of political-administrative divisions

پژوهش ‎های جغرافیای سیاسی

Article 1, Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 34, July 2024, Pages 1-22   

Document Type: مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/pg.2024.84717.1242

Authors

Ataalah Abdi¹; Parastoo Salehpour^{* 2}; Asghar Azizi²; Masomeh Rafie²

¹Associate Professor of Political Geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

²PhD in Geography and Rural Planning, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The political organization of space has been used as a framework and platform for land administration since long ago by various societies, from primitive societies to empires and today’s modern governments. The present research is practical in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of methodology. Data collecting was done through in-depth interviews and focus groups, and data analysis was done through discourse analysis. The study results showed that, firstly, the formation of unrealistic bureaucracy, weakness of budgeting system, weakness of participatory system, homogenization of geographical space, inefficient management system, one-way flow of ruling from top to bottom, weakness of discourse of justification and propaganda, and taking advantage of the in creasing requests for promotion in political compttitions have damaged the political organization of the current space and caused the inefficiency of the national divisions system. And secondly, "type of ruling ideology", "contradiction between the political spatial structure of the country and historical-social realities" and "indecisiveness in the use of an authoritarian and democratic approach" were identified as the ideological indecisiveness of this discourse.

Keywords

Pathology; Political Organization of Space; Administrative Divisions; Iran

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