ISBN:
9783319442273
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Vahabzadeh, Peyman Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice : Economics, Agency, Justice, Activism
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Middle East-Politics and governm
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Social sciences
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Middle East Politics and government
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Political sociology
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Social justice
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Human rights
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Social Sciences
Abstract:
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figure -- Chapter 1: Introduction: How to Approach This Book -- The Road from Here -- Chapter 2: Historical and Conceptual Preparations for a Multidisciplinary Study of Social Justice in Iran -- The War's "Blessing" -- Iran's (Hidden) Nietzschean Revolution -- Privatization of Iranian Economy -- Rise of the New Public Discourse -- Clearance of Social Justice -- Social Justice: The Floating Signifier -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Gazing Upon the Land of Oil Through the Prism of Structure, Elite Action, and Civil Society -- From Rentierism to Authoritarianism: A One-Way Street? -- What About Iran? -- Structural Level -- Economic Structure -- Political Structure -- Action-Oriented Policies -- Civil Society -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Unmaking of the Iranian Working Class since the 1990s -- Weakening of the Individual Bargaining Power of Workers -- Labour Casualization -- Exclusion of Small Workshops from the Labour Code -- The Rise of Human Resource Contract Firms -- Contracting Out State Employment Umbrella -- Atomizing Effect on the Workers' Weakened Individual Bargaining Power -- Weakening of the Collective Bargaining Power of Workers -- 1. No Right of Organization for the Unemployed -- 2. No Right of Organization for the Employed Workers of the Large Public Firms -- 3. No Right of Organization for Workers Employed in Small Workshops -- 4. Dependency on Employers -- 5. Dependency on the Government -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Charity or Mass Mobilization? Public Religion and the Struggle for Economic Justice -- Faith and Justice in Comparative Frames -- Mobilizational Approach in Shi'i Liberation Theology and Leftist Islamism -- Neoliberal Shift and Proliferation of Charitable Initiatives -- A Return to Mass Mobilization?
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Note -- References -- Chapter 6: Iran's Cooperative Movement: Agony of Development -- Cooperatives: Socioeconomic Organizations for a New Era -- What Are Cooperatives? What Is Cooperative Economy? -- Modern Features of Cooperative Economy -- History of Iranian Cooperative Movement -- Phase One: Exogenous Development -- Phase Two: Endogenous Attempts -- What are the Causes? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Social Justice -- Anti-imperialist, Racist, Persian-centric, and Shi'i-centric Discursive Formations of the Ideal Citizen and Iranian School Textbooks: A Social Biography Response -- The Discourses of Loving Iran, Protection, Development/Modernization as Ideological Codes: Homogenizing Diversity and Silencing the Voices of Others -- Rights, Laws, and the Discourses of Loving Iran, Mostaz'afin, the Constitution, Mardom, and Velayat-e Faqih: Islamic Laws are Supreme -- Persianization of Diversity -- the Discourses of Mardom, 'Ashayir, and the Arab Other -- and the Role of Historical Documents: "Persian Is Our National Language" -- The Aryan Myth, the Founding Nation, Otherness, and the Orientalist Knowledge: The Dravidian Other, Pars Self, Whiteness, and Christian Ideology -- The Aryan Myth, Multiple Arab Others, Shi'i Self, and the Discourse of Martyrdom -- The Discourses of Loving Iran, Martyrdom, Ummat-e Islami, Dispossessed Arab, the Zionist Oppressor, and Militarization: Normalization of Violence as a Means of Achieving Justice -- Conclusion -- References -- Iranian School Textbooks (in Persian) -- Chapter 8: Justice Interrupted: The University and the Imam -- Founding of University of Tehran -- Why Have a University? -- University of Tehran During and Following the Revolution -- The Cultural Revolution -- The Impact of the Cultural Revolution on the University -- Conclusions -- References
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Chapter 9: Ethical-Political Praxis: Social Justice and the Resistant Subject in Iran -- A Note on Terminology -- Part One: The Survival of the Totalizing State and the Resistance of Its Excluded Other -- 1988: The Survival of a Totalizing State -- The Two Survivalist Responses: Capitulation Without, Massacre Within -- Capitulation to the Enemy from Without -- Massacre of the Enemy Within -- Jonbesh-e Edalatkhahi: A Response to the 1988 Massacre -- Family Members and the Right to Truth and Justice -- A Movement for Justice: Diaspora -- Part Two: The Resistant Subjectivity and the Praxis of Justice -- The Praxis of Human Rights and a People's Subjectivity -- The Act of Witnessing and the Ambivalence of Being Subject and Object -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Intergenerational Memory in Children of the Jacaranda Tree -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11: Social Media as a Site of Transformative Politics: Iranian Women's Online Contestations -- Context and Debate -- Iranian Women's Activism on Social Networking Sites -- My Stealthy Freedom (MFS) Facebook Campaign -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Performative Agency: A Realization of an Objective Clash of "Social Justice" Discourses or a Requiem for a Subjective Silence -- Sources of Women's Power -- The Paternal Model -- The Maternal Model -- Crisis of Subjectivity -- The Impact of Antagonistic Rival Narratives of Social Justice on the Crisis of Subjectivity -- The Performative Agency -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: The Voice of the Workers: Iran's Labour Movement and Reflections on the Project-Seasonal Workers' Union of Abadan, 1979-1980 -- Organized Labour Movement in Iran: A Hasty Glance -- (a) 1906-1911: From Pre-constitutionalism to the Decline of the Constitutional Revolution -- (b) 1921-1926: From Rise of Reza Shah to His Full-fledge Dictatorship
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(c) 1941-1953: From Reza Shah's abdication to August 1953 Coup -- (d) 1977-1980: the Revolutionary Years -- The Project-Seasonal Workers' Union of Abadan, 1979-1980 -- Towards the Union (sandika) -- The Union's Accomplishments -- Diminishing Workers' Rights -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14: An Unfinished Odyssey: The Iranian Student Movement's Struggles for Social Justice -- The Centrality of Social Justice in Student Activism before the 1979 Revolution -- The Tudeh Party and the Beginning of the Student Movement -- The Oil Nationalization Movement and the Post-16 Azar Student Movement -- The Guerrilla Movement and Radicalization of Students -- Social Justice Activism in the Postrevolutionary Student Movement -- The Cultural Revolution -- The Iran-Iraq War -- The Rise of Neoliberalism -- The Rise of the New Left -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15: The Left's Contribution to Social Justice in Iran: A Brief Historical Overview -- Defining Social Justice -- Premodern to Modern Notions of Society and Justice: Constitutionalism and Social Democracy -- From Social Justice and Constitutionalism to Authoritarian Nationalism: The 1920s -- Mid-Century Marxist Hegemony in Constitutional Government and Social Justice -- Concluding Remarks and Notes on the Future of Social Justice in Iran -- References -- Chapter 16: Iran: Multiple Sources of a Grassroots Social Democracy? -- Limits of Liberal Paradigm and Merits of Twin Pillars of Social Democracy -- Iran: Multiple Sources of a Grassroots Social Democracy -- Mohammad Nakhshab (1923-1970): A Socialist Theist -- Khalil Maleki (1903-1969): A Pioneer of Indigenous Socialism? -- Ali Shari'ati (1933-1977): Toward a Spiritual Social Democracy? -- Conclusion: Toward Discourse Building and Decolonial Knowledge Production -- References
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Chapter 17: Social Justice and Democracy in Iran: In Search of the Missing Link -- Return of an Incomplete Project -- Rethinking the Original Moment -- The Parallel Discourses -- Key Clarifications: Articulatory Practices -- The Conceptual Missing Link -- References -- Afterword: Social Justice in Iran: Further Research -- Political Economy and Economic Justice -- History and Politics -- Subjectivity, Agency, Justice -- Social Movements and Collective Action -- Index
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