Life as Resistance: The Lived Experience of the Shooti Drivers of the City of Baneh

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Yazdaninasab Mohammad; Behzadi Keyvan

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Journal: Journal of Iranian Social Studies Year:2023 | Volume:17 | Issue:4 Page(s): 133-157

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Life as Resistance: The Lived Experience of the Shooti Drivers of the City of Baneh

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Yazdaninasab Mohammad | Behzadi Keyvan | Issue Writer Certificate

Keywords

Goods smugglingQ4

ShootiQ4

resistanceQ4

Hermeneutical phenomenologyQ4

City of BanehQ4

Abstract

Smuggling goods has long been one of the important social issues in parts of Iran, and a lot of studies have been conducted on this issue. So far, pathological view has been the most common perspective in these studies. Never the less, this viewpoint could not lead us to a deep-rooted understanding of the issue. Instead, examining the lived experiences of the real people who has been involved in such a profession would be a better way for an in-depth understanding of the problem. By Using Hermeneutical phenomenology and narrative interviews with 15 Shooti drivers of Baneh, we have attempted to analyze their lived experience. The most important themes, based on narratives, are the context of emergence of Goods smuggling, dangers of the job, the strategies of encountering these dangers, and the last but not the least, understanding smuggling. The research reveals that context and situation prepare them to start the job, and factors like, enormous profits, disproportion of crime and punishment, low probability of being arrested, and availability of resistance strategies explain the continuation of the practice. From another perspective the profession could be understood as resistance against inequal structures. Shooti’s resistance may be divided into passive and active. Passive resistance refers to those Shooties who leave smuggling when they find a desirable job. Active resistance refers to the behavior of those Shootis who love this job because of the identity the job gives them as a man who resists and struggles against a discriminating society. These group of Shooties don’t leave their job even when they find other job opportunities. The second group are more frequent among Shooti drivers. This kind of resistance is against both regional inequality as well as legitimate ways with which people become successful in the today’s life.

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