Human Rights and Agents of Change in Iran: Towards a Theory of Change

ISBN-13: 9789811342509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str.

Rebecca Barlow; Shahram Akbarzadeh

Spis treści

1. Top-down or bottom-up? Towards a theory of change for human rights practice in Iran.

2. The ‘inside-track’ approach to change in Iran under President Rouhani: The case of freedom on the internet.

3. Indigenising ‘modernisation’ in Iran.

4. Iranian lawyers for human rights: The Defenders of Human Rights Center.

5. Is grassroots justice a viable alternative to impunity? The case of the Iran People’s Tribunal.

6. Secular and Islamic feminist work to increase parliamentary representation in Iran: Towards an alliance?.

7. Struggles for revival: The Iranian student movement under the ‘moderate’ government (2013–2017).

8. Environmental activism and social change in Iran.

9. Ethnic minorities and the question of liberal multiculturalism in Iran.

10. Intersecting issues and their implications for human right practice in Iran.

O autorze

​Rebecca Barlow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on the Iranian women’s movement and the politics of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Rebecca is the author of Universal Women’s Human Rights and the Muslim Question: Iran’s One Million Signatures Campaign (2012). Outside academia, Rebecca has worked for the Victorian Local Governance Association, where she played a key role in the production of From Compliance to Culture: A Toolkit for Local Governments to Implement the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities. She has also interned and acted as Consultant for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Gender, Human Rights and Culture Branch, where she worked with a team to implement the United Nations Global Forum of Faith-based Organisations in Population and Development (Istanbul, Turkey, 2008).

Shahram Akbarzadeh is Research Professor of Middle East & Central Asian Politics at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia. He has an active research interest in the politics of Central Asia, Islam, Muslims in Australia and the Middle East. Shahram is author of Uzbekistan and the United States (2005), US Foreign Policy in the Middle East (2008 with Kylie Baxter) and Muslim Active Citizenship in the West (2014 with Mario Peucker). He is the founding Editor of the Islamic Studies Series, published by Melbourne University Press, and a regular public commentator. Shahram is a member of the Editorial Board of three leading refereed journals: Global Change, Peace & Security, the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, the Journal of Asian Security & International Affairs.

Blurb

This volume extends debates on the interaction between universal human rights and the

political experiences of Iranians, through a conceptual analysis of ‘theories of change’. It

assesses the practical processes by which individuals, organizations and movements can reform

or impact the structural, theological, and political challenges faced in the Iranian context.

Contributors to this volume investigate how structures, institutions, and agents in Iran

maneuver for influence and power at the state level, through the law, in international corridors,

at the grassroots, and by implementing multiple and complex methods. The chapters provide

distinct but interrelated analysis of key drivers of change in Iran. A number of those operate

primarily through top-down approaches, such as the political reform movement, lawyers

pursuing legislative change, and international human rights monitoring bodies. Others take

a bottom-up approach, including local movements and campaigns such as the women’s

movement, the student movement, and ethnic minority groups.

Rebecca Barlow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship

and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia. Her research focuses on the Iranian women’s

movement and the politics of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Dr. Barlow is

the author of Universal Women’s Human Rights and the Muslim Question: Iran’s One Million

Signatures Campaign (2012). She has worked for the Victorian Local Governance Association to

produce a toolkit to implement the ‘Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities’.

She has also interned and acted as Consultant for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Gender, Human Rights and Culture Branch, working on the United Nations Global Forum of

Faith-based Organisations in Population and Development (2008).

Shahram Akbarzadeh is Professor of Middle East & Central Asian Politics at the Alfred Deakin

Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia. Prof. Akbarzadeh is

author of Uzbekistan and the United States (2005), US Foreign Policy in the Middle East (2008

with Kylie Baxter) and Muslim Active Citizenship in the West (2014 with Mario Peucker). He is the

founding Editor of the Islamic Studies Series and a regular public commentator.