The "Biopolitics and Development" journal publishes applied, developmental, fundamental, and interpretive-critical articles in related subject areas. The publication of articles in this journal can be useful at the theoretical, methodological, and analytical levels for academics, and at the level of evaluating results, applying research, and analyzing social, political, cultural, demographic, environmental, and development issues for reformers and policymakers. This journal has been created with an interdisciplinary approach and is ready to receive scientific articles from researchers based on the following subject areas.Journal Objectives:The main scope of this journal is the critique and revision of the development discourse in the post-colonial era. This objective involves historicizing and problematizing the development discourse, its domains, subjects, assumptions, and fundamental concepts, and most importantly, its state-centric methodology.
- Dissemination and publication of the latest findings of professors, researchers, and scholars in the field of development studies, with a view to the connection between politics, population, and everyday life (social life).
- Transfer and exchange of new scientific experiences and achievements in the areas of development issues, critical studies of culture and politics, population, and everyday life at the national and international levels.
- Presenting methodological innovations with regard to the dialectic of politics, population, culture, development, and social life.
- Understanding and critiquing the existing discourses on development policies and programs in the country.
Journal Subject Areas:
- Rethinking and critiquing the development discourse
- Development discourse, the modern state, and capitalism
- Development and its "others"
- Governmentality and development
- The modern state, population, and development
- Social policies and biopolitical development
- Cultural policies and biopolitical development
- Development issues in Iran
- Development planning and approaches
- Environment and development policies
- Water and development policies
- Politics and everyday life
- Politics and migration
- Politics and marginalized areas
- Biopolitics and the economy
