Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice (eBook)

Economics, Agency, Justice, Activism

Peyman Vahabzadeh (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2017
XXIII, 323 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-44227-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This interdisciplinary volume offers a range of studies spanning the various historical, political, legal, and cultural features of social justice in Iran, and proposes that the present-day realities of life in Iran could not be farther from the promises of the Iranian Revolution. The ideals of social justice and participatory democracy that galvanized a resilient nation in 1979 have been abandoned as an avaricious ruling elite has privatized the economy, abandoned social programs and subsidy payments for the poor, and suppressed the struggles of women, workers, students, and minorities for equality. At its core, Iran's Struggles for Social Justice seeks to educate and to develop a new discourse on social justice in Iran. 

Peyman Vahabzadeh is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Victoria, Canada. His recent books include A Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy and the Fadai Period of National Liberation in Iran, 1970-1979 (2010), Exilic Meditations: Essays on A Displaced Life (2013), and Parviz Sadri: A Political Biography (2015; in Persian).

Inhalt

Introduction: How to Approach This BookPeyman VahabzadehHistorical and Conceptual Preparations for a Multidisciplinary Study of Social Justice in IranPeyman VahabzadehGazing Upon the Land of Oil Through the Prism of Structure, Elite Action, and Civil SocietyHajar AmidianThe Unmaking of the Iranian Working Class since the 1990sMohammad MaljooCharity or Mass Mobilization? Public Religion and the Struggle for Economic JusticeSiavash SaffariIran’s Cooperative Movement: Agony of DevelopmentKaveh SarmastSocial Justice; Anti-imperialist, Racist, Persian-centric, and Shi‘i-centric Discursive Formations of the Ideal Citizen and Iranian School Textbooks: A Social Biography ResponseAmir MirfakhraieJustice Interrupted: The University and the ImamArdalan RezamandEthical–Political Praxis: Social Justice and the Resistant Subject in IranShokoufeh SakhiIntergenerational Memory in Children of the Jacaranda TreeNima NaghibiSocial Media as a Site of Transformative Politics: Iranian Women’s Online ContestationsVictoria Tahmasebi-BirganiPerformative Agency: A Realization of an Objective Clash of “Social Justice” Discourses or a Requiem for a Subjective SilenceSara NaderiThe Voice of the Workers: Iran’s Labour Movement and Reflections on the Project-Seasonal Workers’Union of Abadan, 1979–1980Mohammad SafaviAn Unfinished Odyssey: The Iranian Student Movement’s Struggles for Social JusticeRoozbeh SafshekanThe Left’s Contribution to Social Justice in Iran: A Brief Historical OverviewAfshin Matin-asgariIran: Multiple Sources of a Grassroots Social Democracy?Mojtaba MahdaviSocial Justice and Democracy in Iran: In Search of the Missing LinkPeyman Vahabzadeh

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XXIII, 323 p. 1 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1979 Revolution • activism • Human Rights • Iran • Iranian Revolution • Islamic Studies • Neoliberalism in Iran • Political Economy • Post-revolutionary Iran • Privatization • rentier state • Social Movements
• ISBN-10: 3-319-44227-9 / 3319442279
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-44227-3 / 9783319442273