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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index.

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?

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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. Focusing primarily on the student youth he looks at a variety of organizations, protests, actions, and strategies that people are using to try to advance social change in Iran. Unabashedly celebratory of the student rebels, Yaghmaian also looks at the slow development of an independent union movement, the questioning of assumptions by independent journalists, and other efforts to resist both the Islamist state leaders and neoliberal globalization. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

English.

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