• Title of article

    Political Identity of Dagestanis

  • Author/Authors

    Hoseyni, S.M. Payam-e-Nour Univercity

  • Pages
    9
  • From page
    22
  • To page
    30
  • Abstract
    This article studyies Political Identity of Dagestani people in the North Caucasus. At the first, I have defined a true theory of political identity, which is compatible with Dagestanis. This theory defines political identity in two aspects: grounded aspect, which is geography and history, and the social-environmental aspect, which includes culture (especially religion, cos-tumes and ethnicity), modernity and economics. I have discussed any of these factors on Dage-stan republic. Then I have seen Dagestani political identity as non-modern, costumed (under “Adet”s) and ethnics. I have used other studies which worked on the political sociology of Dagestanis, interviewed with the people who worked with Dagestanis (especially Iranian diplo-mats, scholars and university professors) and Russian and Dagestani online data (magazines, itinerary…)
  • Keywords
    Central Asia , Caucasus , Identity , Russia , Dagestan
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Serial Year
    2013
  • Record number

    2484487