Hassan Shahraki is an assistant professor in University of Zabol, Iran. He has earned his bachelor degree in Agriculture Machinery from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, the Master Science in Rural Development form Razi University, Iran, and PhD in RuralDevelopment from Bu-Ali-Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. Also, he has beena visiting researcher at the Department of Development Studies, University ofVienna, Austria, from 2015 to 2016. Right now, he is a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in Carleton University under the supervision of Dr. Prof. Carlos Novas.
Shahraki’s main academic interests include the wide range from critical development studies, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Situational Analysis (SA), to the sociology of development, post-modernism, rural development (entrepreneurship), and the sociology of body and embodiment. His main intention as a visiting scholar in Carleton is to search about the Buen Vivir (Collective well-being in English) as a Latin American development approach, and redefine it according to the sociological, historical, and cultural circumstances, conditions, and situations in Iran as an Islamic country. He named this revised version of Buen Vivir the IBV (Islamic Buen Vivir).
