Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice (eBook)

Peyman Vahabzadeh is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Victoria, Canada. His recent books include A Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy and the Fadai Period of National Liberation in Iran, 1970-1979 (2010), Exilic Meditations: Essays on A Displaced Life (2013), and Parviz Sadri: A Political Biography (2015; in Persian).

Introduction: How to Approach This BookPeyman VahabzadehHistorical and Conceptual Preparations for a Multidisciplinary Study of Social Justice in IranPeyman VahabzadehGazing Upon the Land of Oil Through the Prism of Structure, Elite Action, and Civil SocietyHajar AmidianThe Unmaking of the Iranian Working Class since the 1990sMohammad MaljooCharity or Mass Mobilization? Public Religion and the Struggle for Economic JusticeSiavash SaffariIran’s Cooperative Movement: Agony of DevelopmentKaveh SarmastSocial Justice; Anti-imperialist, Racist, Persian-centric, and Shi‘i-centric Discursive Formations of the Ideal Citizen and Iranian School Textbooks: A Social Biography ResponseAmir MirfakhraieJustice Interrupted: The University and the ImamArdalan RezamandEthical–Political Praxis: Social Justice and the Resistant Subject in IranShokoufeh SakhiIntergenerational Memory in Children of the Jacaranda TreeNima NaghibiSocial Media as a Site of Transformative Politics: Iranian Women’s Online ContestationsVictoria Tahmasebi-BirganiPerformative Agency: A Realization of an Objective Clash of “Social Justice” Discourses or a Requiem for a Subjective SilenceSara NaderiThe Voice of the Workers: Iran’s Labour Movement and Reflections on the Project-Seasonal Workers’Union of Abadan, 1979–1980Mohammad SafaviAn Unfinished Odyssey: The Iranian Student Movement’s Struggles for Social JusticeRoozbeh SafshekanThe Left’s Contribution to Social Justice in Iran: A Brief Historical OverviewAfshin Matin-asgariIran: Multiple Sources of a Grassroots Social Democracy?Mojtaba MahdaviSocial Justice and Democracy in Iran: In Search of the Missing LinkPeyman Vahabzadeh