Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran

Culture, Ideology, and Mobilizing Frameworks

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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In this work Stephen C. Poulson, a scholar of collective action and social movements, investigates cycles of social protest in Iran from 1890 to the present era. He illuminates the following social movements: the 1890-1892 Tobacco Movement; the 1906-1909 Constitutional Revolution; two post-World War II movements, the Tudeh (Masses) and the National Front; the 1963 Qom Protest; and the 1978-1979 Iranian Revolution. These movements confronted two primary questions: How should the Iranian state achieve independence in the world and what rights should individual Iranians enjoy in their political and social system? Poulson examines the framing of these questions and their answers by various Iranian political actors over time, revealing both continuity and change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-09-08
Mått159 x 230 x 27 mm
Vikt531 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor350
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739117576

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Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Foundations of Social Movement TheoryPart 3 Part I: Culture, Social Structure, and Unifying Narratives in Twentieth Century IranChapter 4 Culture and Anchoring Social Movement Narratives in Islamic HistoryChapter 5 Culture and Traditional Forms of Symbolic Protest in Iranian HistoryChapter 6 Social Structure: Relations Between the Religious Elite, the Bazaar, the State, and the Crowd in IranChapter 7 Social Structure: British and Russian Intervention in IranPart 8 Part II: Cycles of Protest and the Negotiation of Movement Frames in Twentieth Century IranChapter 9 The Tobacco Movement (1890-1892)Chapter 10 The Constitutional Revolution (1906-1909)Chapter 11 Post World War II Nationalist Movements: The Tudeh and the National Front (1944-1953)Chapter 12 Ideology and Movement Frames of the Iranian Religious Revival (1962-1978)Chapter 13 Post-Revolutionary Movements in Modern IranChapter 14 A Century of Social Movements in Iran

Until recently, social movement theory and research focused almost entirely on Western movements. Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran shows how one set of movements 'worked' where the state, other structural elements, and culture differed dramatically from the West, even while Western ideas and meddling shaped them. Poulson's highly readable book is important for students of social movements and also for others who want to better understand this country that is so closely related to current global conflicts yet so crudely caricatured in our media.