Titlebook: Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice; Economics, Agency, J Peyman Vahabzadeh Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

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Introduction: How to Approach This Book,rse group of contributors—academics, students, and activists—with shared interests. The Introduction offers a snapshot of the historical conditions in post-revolutionary Iran that have given rise to aggressive injustices in the aftermath of the 1979 Revolution, commonly known as the revolution of “t

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Historical and Conceptual Preparations for a Multidisciplinary Study of Social Justice in Iran,he beginning of the “reconstruction effort,” and the second is the purging of thousands of political prisoners, an entire generation of social justice activists. These two events paved the way for turning toward economic liberalization and privatization at the expense of its workers, poor, minoritie

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Gazing Upon the Land of Oil Through the Prism of Structure, Elite Action, and Civil Society,tical incentives produced by resource “rents” is key. A rigorous and descriptive typology that shows the indicators that influence social justice will reveal how a state “cursed by oil revenues” could experience instances of uprising and demand for change, like those experienced during Khatami’s pre

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The Unmaking of the Iranian Working Class since the 1990s,sible individual and collective bargaining power since 1990s? In doing so, this chapter will exclusively focus on the structural conditions of impossibility, explaining how some trends, economic policies, and political attitudes have contributed in paralyzing the workers’ political action via weaken

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,Social Justice; Anti-imperialist, Racist, Persian-centric, and Shi‘i-centric Discursive Formations entary and middle school textbooks. I argue that Iranian school textbooks function as hegemonic tools of domination that identify the ideal Iranian citizen as the leader in anti-imperialist movements without questioning the role of the Iranian Self in promoting discrimination against various forms o

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Justice Interrupted: The University and the Imam,miere site for the acquisition and exchange of Western knowledge, providing the know-how necessary for modernizing Iran while weakening the yoke of imperialism, a step toward social justice. The University supported the Revolution’s principles, demanding an independent higher learning institution, f

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,Ethical–Political Praxis: Social Justice and the Resistant Subject in Iran,tour that accesses their native public space in spite of the Islamic state’s active denials and violent responses to their struggle. Informed by Arendt’s notion of politics as a project and Levinas’s notion of justice founded in the ethics of the other, this chapter essays a critical review of some

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