Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings

ISBN-13: 9781108466899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 330 str.

Pouya Alimagham

Opis

Examines the last forty years of Iranian and Middle-Eastern history through the prism of the Green Uprisings of 2009.

Recenzje

'Alimagham has done a fine job of understanding and explaining the ideas and motivations of Green movement activists largely on their own terms and using their own words. It is an important work of scholarship, and anyone that wants to understand modern Iran better would benefit from reading it. This study deepened and improved my own understanding of the modern political scene in Iran, and I think it will be a valuable reference work for a long time to come.' The American Conservative

Spis treści

1. Situating the 2009 Green Uprisings; 2. Primer: from the theory of Islamic Republicanism to practice, 1979–2009; 3. On the streets and beyond: crowd action and the symbolic appropriation of the past; 4. Contesting Palestine: generating revolutionary meaning; 5. Co-opting mourning ceremonies: Montazeri, post-Islamism, and revolutionary Ashura; 6. Conclusion.