COVID-19 Pandemic: An Explanation from Cultural-Political Cognition with a Multidisciplinary Approach

Coronavirus pandemic is a phenomenon that has affected the entire world. Different nations have adopted different methods to confront this pandemic, for the pandemic (whether of coronavirus or any other virus) is not merely a biological phenomenon, but it is essentially a cultural phenomenon with political, economic, social and international dimensions. But, usually what occurs to mind in confronting a pandemic is that viruses are biological phenomena with mere medical solutions. The objective of this present paper is to explain the outbreak of covid-19 pandemic as a cultural-political-economic phenomenon in Iran and also offer some solutions. The confrontation of Iranian nation-state with this phenomenon was studied within the framework of the Attribution Theory. The findings of the research show that the confrontation of the Iranian nation-state with this virus has been influenced by the cultural-political-economic characteristics of Iran. Also the findings show that “external attribution” by the Iranian nation-state cannot be a suitable solution to confront this deadly phenomenon. Confrontation with this virus requires an integrative approach based on the features of Iranian culture by the Iranian nation-state, not as a mere biological phenomenon but as a biological-cultural-political-psychological-economic phenomenon.