Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice

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).

• Preface.- Introduction. How to Approach This Book.- 1. Historical and Conceptual Preparations for a Multidisciplinary Study of Social Justice in Iran.- 2. Gazing Upon the Land of Oil Through the Prism of Structure, Elite Action, and Civil Society.- 3. The Unmaking of the Iranian Working Class since the 1990s.- 4. Charity or Mass Mobilization? Public Religion and the Struggle for Economic Justice.- 5. Iran’s Cooperative Movement: Agony of Development.- 6. Social Justice, Anti-imperialist, Racist, Persiancentric, and Shi‘i-centric Discursive Formations of the Ideal Citizen, and Iranian School Textbooks: A Social Biography Response.- 7. Justice Interrupted: The University and the Imam.- 8. Ethical-Political Praxis: Social Justice and the Resistant Subject in Iran.- 9. Intergenerational Memory in Children of the Jacaranda Tree.- 10. Social Media as a Site of Transformative Politics and Political Dissent: Iranian Women’s Online Contestations.- 11. Performative agency: A Realization of anObjective Clash of ‘Social Justice’ Discourses or a Requiem for a Subjective Silence.- 12. The Voice of the Workers: Iran’s Labour Movement and Reflections on the Project-Seasonal Workers’ Union of Abadan, 1979-1980.- 13. An Unfinished Odyssey: The Iranian Student Movement’s Struggles for Social Justice.- 14. The Left’s Contribution to Social Justice in Iran: A Brief Historical Overview.- 15. Iran: Multiple Sources of a Grassroots Social Democracy?.- 16. Social Justice and Democracy in Iran: In Search of the Missing Link.- Afterword. Social Justice in Iran: Further Research.