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Hamid Malekzadeh

Hamid Malekzadeh

Assistant Professor

Full-Time Faculty Member

College: Faculty of Humanities

Degree: Ph.D

Birth Year: 1984

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Hamid Malekzadeh

Assistant Professor Hamid Malekzadeh

Full-Time Faculty Member
College: Faculty of Humanities Degree: Ph.D | Birth Year: 1984 |

Biography

Hamid Malekzadeh is a political theorist whose work lies at the intersection of political theory and phenomenology. His research is primarily concerned with the lifeworld, embodiment, intersubjectivity, political subjectivity, freedom, the state, and the conditions under which shared social life becomes possible and sustainable.

A central concern of his work is the phenomenological reconstruction of the political beyond state-centered approaches to political ontology. Drawing primarily on Edmund Husserl and the phenomenological tradition, he examines political life from the standpoint of a world already constituted through embodied experience, intersubjective relations, shared meanings, habitual expectations, and forms of coexistence prior to their formal organization by political institutions. This line of inquiry asks how the state, political power, and institutional order should be understood once the lifeworld rather than the state itself is taken as the point of departure.

Another strand of his research concerns embodiment, sexual difference, and feminist phenomenology, particularly the possibilities opened by gendered readings of Husserlian phenomenology. He also works on the history of political thought, especially Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Carl Schmitt, Gramsci, and debates concerning the conceptual foundations of modern political order.

Research Interests

Political Theory; Political Phenomenology; Edmund Husserl; Lifeworld; Intersubjectivity; Embodiment; Political Subjectivity; Freedom and Recognition; The Political; State and Political Ontology; Critiques of State-Centered Political Theory; Feminist Phenomenology; Sexual Difference; History of Political Thought; Machiavelli; Hobbes; Locke; Rousseau; Carl Schmitt; Iranian Political Theory; Governance and Sustainable Social Life; Peace and the Metaphysics of the State.

Current Research

His current research develops a phenomenological approach to political order by shifting the analytical starting point from the state to the lifeworld. The central question is how political institutions, forms of power, and practices of governance affect the conditions under which individuals can continue to inhabit a shared world, form expectations about the future, pursue their purposes, and sustain relations of mutual dependence.

Within this broader research programme, he is developing the concept of the conditions of sustainable social life as a way of examining the relationship between political order and lived experience. This involves investigating the gap that may emerge between the formal functions of institutions and their experienced effects, as well as the ways in which political interventions reorganize the practical horizons within which social life takes place.

A parallel line of research returns to major figures in the history of political thought—particularly Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau—to examine political order in relation to the problem of life rather than treating the history of political thought simply as a succession of theories of sovereignty or the state. His recent work also addresses the political ontology of the modern state, the search for political recognition, and the metaphysical presuppositions that shape modern conceptions of peace.

Academic Engagement

Alongside his research, Malekzadeh has been active in scholarly translation, academic editing, professional associations, academic conferences, invited lectures, and forms of public scholarship intended to bring political theory into conversation with contemporary political and social questions.

His academic activities have included sustained engagement with phenomenology through scholarly associations and editorial work, as well as the translation and introduction of phenomenological texts into Persian. He has also contributed to public discussions of political concepts through essays, lectures, and radio programmes concerned with the conceptual vocabulary of politics.

International Collaboration

He welcomes international academic collaboration in political theory and phenomenology, particularly on projects concerning the lifeworld, embodiment, intersubjectivity, political ontology, the modern state, political subjectivity, peace, recognition, and the phenomenological foundations of political life.

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Educational Policy and Political Education in the State

AuthorsHamid Malekzadeh
Conference TitleThe 2014 International Interdisciplinary Conference
Holding Date of ConferenceNovember–December 2014
Presented byNo
PresentationIN SERIES
Conference LevelInternational Conferences
Keywordsstate, political, politics, education, community, Political Authority, State Intervention, Political Education

Abstract

Abstract

One of the most enduring questions concerning the concept of the state is the relationship between education and politics. This relationship formed one of the earliest points of convergence in political theorizing in ancient Greece and continues to occupy a central place in discussions of the state and its associated problems. Any inquiry into the nature of the state, politics, and the concepts they entail is, in one way or another, also an inquiry into the forms and functions of education within a political community. More specifically, every form of political domination is directly connected to claims concerning the state’s right to intervene in the educational processes of society.

This article begins by examining the nature of politics and the relation politics establishes with individuals as its primary subjects. It then considers the formation of community beyond the state: a form of association constituted by people who come together in a relatively spontaneous manner. Against this background, the article examines political intervention as an attempt to direct this spontaneous form of being-together toward the particular demands and orientations articulated by political rulers.

The final section argues that education should be understood as one of the most important factors through which different forms of political authority are justified and through which the state legitimizes its intervention in the everyday lives of citizens. The central claim of the article is that there is a constitutive relationship between politics and education, and that examining this relationship provides a way of investigating the foundations through which politics itself takes shape within a community.
 

Keywords

Politics; Education; State; Community; Political Authority; State Intervention; Political Education

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