Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Zohreh Soroushfar ¹
• Susan Bastani ²
• Marzieh Mousavi Khameneh ³

¹ Alzahra University,Tehran,Iran

² Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Alzahra University

³ professor

Abstract

The present study examines unofficial calendars that were published by social groups either explicitly or without permission. The official calendar, published and monitored by political power, reflects the attitude and narrative of political power over the past, and therefore ignores or eliminates many of the narratives in society. Faced with this approach by various social groups, they try to create alternative memories by publishing calendars in which they register their intended occasions in order to build a collective identity or revive and strengthen existing one.
The main purpose of the present study is to study the unoffical calendars in comparison with the official calendars published in the years after the revolution. It intends to check out the relationship between the memory built by them and the identity of the social groups that they employ, through the review of calendars. The research has been done using a case study method. The findings of the research indicate that there are many differences between the memories created by the official calendar and the unofficial calendars as well as the unofficial calendars themselves. Based on the findings, one can hypothesize that the breakdown between the internal memory of the post-revolutionary society gradually increased and indicates the formation of a kind of identity disruption in society.

Keywords

• collective memory
• identity
• official calendar
• unofficial calendar
• counter-memory