Political Participation in Iran From Khatami to the Green Movement with Paola Rivetti
SAIS Rethinking Iran14 Marras 2022

Political Participation in Iran From Khatami to the Green Movement with Paola Rivetti

This book examines the unintended consequences of top-down reforms in Iran, analysing how the Iranian reformist governments (1997–2005) sought to utilise gradual reforms to control independent activism, and how citizens responded to such a disciplinary action. While the governments successfully ‘set the field’ of permitted political participation, part of the civil society that took shape was unexpectedly independent. Despite being a minority, independent activists were not marginal: without them, in fact, the Green Movement of 2009 would not have taken shape. Building on in-depth empirical analysis, the author explains how autonomous activism forms and survives in a semi-authoritarian country. The book contributes to the debate about the implications of elite-led reforms for social reproduction, offering an innovative interpretation and an original analysis of social movements from a political science perspective.

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Book Forum - The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

Book Forum - The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

Tracing the use of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the policing of colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism, Nicholas Mulder uses extensive archival researc...

14 Marras 202257min

Art, Politics, and U.S. Sanctions on Iran

Art, Politics, and U.S. Sanctions on Iran

Art, Politics, and U.S. Sanctions on Iran

14 Marras 20221h 2min

Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran

Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran

In 1983, the Iranian government banned the personal use of home video technology. In UNDERGROUND, Blake Atwood recounts how in response to the ban, technology enthusiasts, cinephiles, entrepreneurs, a...

14 Marras 202256min

The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan

The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan

THE DISCOVERY OF IRAN offers a fresh perspective on Iranian nationalism, centring its analysis on critical intellectual debates emanating from a transnational experience of community of Iranian émigré...

14 Marras 20221h 4min

#MahsaAmini & Iran’s Feminist Revolution

#MahsaAmini & Iran’s Feminist Revolution

Since the senseless death of Mahsa Zhina Amini, Iranians poured onto the streets in rage and mourning. #MahsaAmini and the Kurdish slogan cried out at her funeral, “Women. Life. Freedom” have become t...

14 Marras 20221h 6min

Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization with Kian Tajbakhsh

Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization with Kian Tajbakhsh

Empirically rich and theoretically informed, CREATING LOCAL DEMOCRACY (Cambridge University Press) is an innovative analysis of political decentralization under the Islamic Republic of Iran. Drawing u...

14 Marras 20221h

Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice with Pamela Karimi

Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice with Pamela Karimi

Drawing on spatial and temporal turns that have animated Iranian art scenes since the 1980s, ALTERNATIVE IRAN (Stanford University Press) illuminates the economic, political, and intellectual forces t...

13 Marras 202254min

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