Drugs Politics - Maziyar Ghiabi

Drugs Politics

Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
360 Seiten
2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-47545-7 (ISBN)
129,95 inkl. MwSt
Maziyar Ghiabi examines here the place of illegal substances, such as opium, heroin and methamphetamine in the politics of modern Iran, looking at government attempts to control and regulate the use of illicit drugs. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Iran has one of the world's highest rates of drug addiction: estimated to be between 2 and 7 percent of the entire population. This makes the questions that this book asks all the more salient: what is the place of illegal substances in the politics of modern Iran? How have drugs affected the formation of the Iranian state and its power dynamics? And how have governmental attempts at controlling and regulating illicit drugs affected drug consumption and addiction? By answering these questions, Maziyar Ghiabi suggests that the Islamic Republic of Iran's image as an inherently conservative state is not only misplaced and inaccurate, but in part a myth. In order to dispel this myth, he skilfully combines ethnographic narratives from drug users, vivid field observations from 'under the bridge', with archival material from the pre- and post-revolutionary era, statistics on drug arrests and interviews with public officials. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Maziyar Ghiabi is an Italian/Iranian social scientist, ethnographer and historian, currently a lecturer at the University of Oxford and Titular Lecturer at Wadham College. Prior to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paris School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) and a member of the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire des Enjeux Sociaux (IRIS). After finishing his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Ca' Foscari Venice, he obtained a Doctorate in Politics at the University of Oxford (St Antony's College) where he was a Wellcome Trust Scholar in Society and Ethics (2013–17). His interest falls at the crossroads of different disciplinary and intellectual fields, from medical anthropology to politics to modern social history across the Middle East and the Mediterranean. He is the editor of Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South (2018).

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.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 35 Halftones, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 710 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-108-47545-0 / 1108475450
ISBN-13 978-1-108-47545-7 / 9781108475457
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