Nationalism and Citizenship in the First Pahlavi era; with Special Emphasis on Ethnicity

Nationalism and citizenship have been studied in recent years in the light of abstract sociopolitical contexts and they have affected each other in a way that nationalism will face serious problems unless citizenship is realized. Any attempts to define or explore the concept of nationalism will directly affect citizenship. If we try to provide a culture based definition، it will lead to a limited abstract version of the concept of citizenship. However، on the other hand، a politico-historical definition may extend the dimensions of nation-making processes and facilitate the democratic developments. The implementation of cultural nationalism policy in the first Pahlavi era is a good example of military confrontation with ethnic groups in an attempt to eliminate subcultures. The current study tries to analyze the relation between nationalism and citizenship in the light of aforementioned concepts.