Analysis of the Role of Collective Memory in the School of Razavi Art on the Path to Exalted Governance(With an Emphasis on the Thought of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in the Second Phase of the Revolution Statement)

Yoonesian, Yoones; Vasefi, MohammadReza; Abedini, Faramarz

doi:10.22034/ijs.2025.426121.1035

Analysis of the Role of Collective Memory in the School of Razavi Art on the Path to Exalted Governance(With an Emphasis on the Thought of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in the Second Phase of the Revolution Statement)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Yoones Yoonesian ¹

MohammadReza Vasefi ²

Faramarz Abedini ³

¹ PhD Candidate, Information Science and Knowledge Studies, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

² Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor, Governance Department, National Defense University, Shahid Beheshti School of Governance, Tehran, Iran.

10.22034/ijs.2025.426121.1035

Abstract

methodology (Grounded Theory strategy), analyzes the role of “collective memory” and “nostalgia” within the framework of the “School of Razavi Art” as foundations for “exalted governance.” The theoretical framework of the study is based on three key concepts: collective memory (Halbwachs), nostalgia (Boym, Davis), and representation.The central research problem is the theoretical gap in converting the latent symbolic capital embedded in cultural-religious heritage-with an emphasis on the Holy Razavi Shrine as the “pinnacle of Iran’s spiritual grandeur” in the thought of the Supreme Leader-into operational mechanisms of governance in the digital age. In this context, the School of Razavi Art is considered not merely as an aesthetic heritage, but as a living and active “civilizational capital” that shapes Iranian-Islamic identity through the creation of “spatial memory” within the Holy Razavi Shrine. The findings indicate that nostalgia, having moved beyond its initial medical and psychological definitions, has become a cultural-political construct capable of playing a role in redefining collective identity and strengthening national cohesion. In the contemporary era, the phenomenon of “digital nostalgia” (Niemeyer) presents both opportunities (such as facilitating the reproduction and distribution of collective memory) and threats (such as distortion, commercialization, and the emergence of dangerous forms of restorative nostalgia). The study’s final conclusion emphasizes that the intelligent integration of the collective wisdom inherent in the religious memory formed within the School of Razavi Art, with the requirements of modern governance and the exigencies of the digital world, is essential and inevitable for realizing the Iranian-Islamic model of progress and the ideal of the new Islamic civilization outlined in the “Second Phase of the Revolution” Statement. This necessitates formulating strategies for transmitting authentic, identity-forming narratives on one hand, and creating a critical counter-discourse against ideological manipulations of the past on the other.

Keywords

Collective Memory

Nostalgia

Holy Razavi Shrine

Governance

Islamic Revolution

The Supreme Leader

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