خلاصة:
Because of the limited capacity of coas tal lands and conflicting interes ts among s takeholders for
coas tal resources, there are intensifying pressures to retain and provide more public access to the coas t. Coas tal gated
communities have been developed increasingly in in middle shoreline of Caspian Sea in North of Iran. They are kind
of exclusive space production as they restrict public access to the public resources of shoreline. As space production
has roots in social processes, according to Lefebvre’s theory, there are two main approaches in the analysis of social
phenomena. Firs t is ins titutionalism and the other one is discourse analysis. Due to some weaknesses each approach
suffered from, the discursive ins titutionalism became the main methodology to analyze the interaction of discourses
and ins titutions in coas tal exclusive space production. Critical realism emphasizes on the inherent feature of the
world which is categorized in three layers of reality that are cons tructed by agents, discourses and s tructures.
Rather than experiencing the world in cons tructivism or conceptualizing the world in interpretivism, critical realism
supposes different ontology, exis tence of hidden or invisible mechanisms behind what human understand from
the social phenomena and though emphasize on the causality of both agents and s tructures. This research aims to
conduct the conceptual and methodological framework for analysis of the exclusive space production as a social
phenomenon in North of Iran with the help of critical realism perspective in discursive ins titutionalism approach.
This could be a significant guideline for further researches on spatial evolution in coas tal urban areas.
ملخص الجهاز:
Developing the Conceptual and Methodological Framework for Discursive-institutional Analysis of Coastal Exclusive Space Production: with Special Reference to Critical Realism Perspective 1Reza Kheyroddin, 2*Maede Hedayatifard 1Assistant Professor, Faculty of Urban Planning and Architecture, IUST (Iran University of Science and Technology) Tehran, Iran.
This research aims to conduct the conceptual and methodological framework for analysis of the exclusive space production as a social phenomenon in North of Iran with the help of critical realism perspective in discursive institutionalism approach.
Though, the main output of this research is the conceptual and methodological framework for analysis of exclusive space production in coastal urban areas which could help to figuring out the answers to the questions such as what are the main discourses in formal and informal institutional contexts (decision making system and society).
To develop a conceptual framework for discursive institutional analysis of the exclusive space production in the north of Iran, one has to consider three elements, including the basic situation and context, the hegemonic discourses and the main actors and agents (Fig. 4).
Integration of real, actual and issue layers in the critical realism perspective and with the structures, discourses and actors in the discursive institutional analysis would help to find the processes and mechanisms of exclusive space production in the north of Iran.