Social change in Iran : an eyewitness account of dissent, defiance, and new movements for rights /

Having spent one year in Iran in 1998, Yaghmaian (economics, Ramapo College) attempts to tell the day-to-day stories of a range of people resisting state violence, neoliberal economics, and social repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as analyzing the prospects for social change. Focus...

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Main Author: Yaghmaian, Behzad, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Iran: an eyewitness account and study of social change
  • Emerging social movements, victories, and setbacks in the battle for rights
  • State and the socialization of violence: a narrative of everyday life
  • Children of the Islamic Republic, part I: the rise of a new social movement for joy: a narrative
  • Children of the Islamic Republic, part II: student movement: transcendence from a movement against rights to a movement for rights
  • Children of the Islamic Republic, part III: the politicization of the movement for joy: a narrative of a new student movement in the making
  • A movement for a free press, the vanguard of the battle for rights and civil society
  • State, economy, and civil society, part I: wage earners' response to economic catastrophe
  • State, economy, and civil society, part II: economic decline, divided state, and policy retreat: the triumph of neoliberalism
  • Oil, international division of labor, and the crisis of the Iranian economy: a political economy analysis
  • The great debate: a republic or Velayat-e faghih?