Contesting the Iranian Revolution - The Green Uprisings

Examines the last forty years of Iranian and Middle-Eastern history through the prism of the Green Uprisings of 2009.

List of contents

1. Situating the 2009 Green Uprisings; 2. Primer: from the theory of Islamic Republicanism to practice, 1979-2009; 3. On the streets and beyond: crowd action and the symbolic appropriation of the past; 4. Contesting Palestine: generating revolutionary meaning; 5. Co-opting mourning ceremonies: Montazeri, post-Islamism, and revolutionary Ashura; 6. Conclusion.

About the author

Pouya Alimagham is Lecturer and historian of the Middle East at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Receiving his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan, his thesis on which this book is based was awarded the Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award by the Association for Iranian Studies in 2016.

Summary

Challenging binary interpretations of Iran's Green Uprisings of 2009 as a 'failed revolution', this dynamic history of Iran and the Middle East focuses on the men and women who existed at the centre of these contentious politics, with wider insights into US foreign policy, political Islam and revolutionary politics.

Product details

• Authors: Pouya Alimagham, Pouya (Massachusetts Institute of Techn Alimagham, Pouya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Alimagham
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108466899
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46689-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Iran, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Terrorism, armed struggle, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Revolutionary groups & movements, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Demonstrations & protest movements, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Political ideologies and movements, Pressure groups & lobbying, Revolutionary groups and movements