Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran

ISBN-13: 9781108466936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 363 str.

Maziyar Ghiabi

Opis

Offers new and cutting-edge research on the role of drugs in Iranian society and government. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Recenzje

'[Ghiabi] has done some remarkable field work, interviewing addicts and officials at the highest and lowest levels of society to produce a vivid dissection of the Iranian body politic in all its humanity, its saints and sinners.' Antony Wynn, Asian Affairs

Spis treści

1. The drugs assemblage, Part I: 2. A genealogy of drugs politics: opiates under the Pahlavi; 3. Drugs, revolution, war; 4. Reformism and drugs: formal and informal politics of harm reduction; 5. Crisis as an institution: the Expediency Council; Part II: 6. The anthropological mutation of methamphetamines; 7. The maintenance of disorder; 8. Drugs and populism: Ahmadinejad and grassroots authoritarianism.