Iran's Struggles for Social Justice : Economics, Agency, Justice, Activism

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 soci...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Vahabzadeh, Peyman (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Middle East > Politics and government.
Political sociology.
Social justice.
Human rights.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319442273
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-44227-3
Physical DescriptionXXIII, 323 p. 1 illus. in color. online resource.

Cover

Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction. How to Approach This Book
  • 1. Historical and Conceptual Preparations for a Multidisciplinary Study of Social Justice in Iran
  • 2. Gazing Upon the Land of Oil Through the Prism of Structure, Elite Action, and Civil Society
  • 3. The Unmaking of the Iranian Working Class since the 1990s
  • 4. Charity or Mass Mobilization? Public Religion and the Struggle for Economic Justice
  • 5. Iran's Cooperative Movement: Agony of Development
  • 6. Social Justice, Anti-imperialist, Racist, Persiancentric, and Shi'i-centric Discursive Formations of the Ideal Citizen, and Iranian School Textbooks: A Social Biography Response
  • 7. Justice Interrupted: The University and the Imam
  • 8. Ethical-Political Praxis: Social Justice and the Resistant Subject in Iran
  • 9. Intergenerational Memory in Children of the Jacaranda Tree
  • 10. Social Media as a Site of Transformative Politics and Political Dissent: Iranian Women's Online Contestations
  • 11. Performative agency: A Realization of an Objective Clash of 'Social Justice' Discourses or a Requiem for a Subjective Silence
  • 12. The Voice of the Workers: Iran's Labour Movement and Reflections on the Project-Seasonal Workers' Union of Abadan, 1979-1980
  • 13. An Unfinished Odyssey: The Iranian Student Movement's Struggles for Social Justice
  • 14. The Left's Contribution to Social Justice in Iran: A Brief Historical Overview
  • 15. Iran: Multiple Sources of a Grassroots Social Democracy?
  • 16. Social Justice and Democracy in Iran: In Search of the Missing Link
  • Afterword. Social Justice in Iran: Further Research.

Similar Items