امیررضا ملازاده مقدم

  re-adolescence is a period of identity formation where individuals strive to express their identity in a meaningful narrative for themselves and others. Narratives have the power to captivate individuals in this age group more than any other age group because narratives provide an opportunity for them to become someone they have always wished to be through role-playing in social drama. The role they commit to in this social drama is the idealized role they want to represent in their narrative for others. The life story interview of McAdams delicately offers the researcher an opportunity to uncover this idealized role. Understanding how and why a prestigious or idealized social self is formed, someone we aspire to be in the eyes of others, is an area that can be addressed through the lens of psychoanalytic narratology.

The researcher in this study aims to understand the selfhood of pre-adolescent female protesters in recent unrests in Iran. It is an analysis that can dissect the label-boggling first women's movement in Iran. Furthermore, the researcher aims to create a cohesive image of self-representation that pre-adolescent women, as the main protesters in recent Iranian unrests, construct in their minds. It is a selfhood that is narrated and enacted in a cultural performance to be synchronized with others' self-desires and edited accordingly. In this study, the researcher endeavors to collect the life stories of five pre-adolescent female protesters through in-depth interviews, similar to the life story interview of McAdams. Then, by interpreting the themes extracted from the life stories of female protesters, the researcher aims to analyze their participation in recent Iranian unrests by uncovering the relationship between their protest actions and the desire to construct their narrated identity.