Street Politics - Poor People''s Movements in Iran

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, an active political movement emerged on the streets of Iran's largest cities. Poor people began to construct their own communities on unused urban lands, creating an infrastructure----roads, electricity, running water, garbage collection, and shelters----all their own. As the Iranian government attempted to evict these illegal settlers, they resisted----fiercely and ultimately successfully. This is the story of their economic and political strategies.

About the author

Asef Bayat

Summary

The story of a grassroots political movement that flourished throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Product details

• Authors: Asef Bayat, Assef Bayat, Bayat Asef
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.11.1997
• EAN: 9780231108591
• ISBN: 978-0-231-10859-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Iran, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Poverty & unemployment, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, c 1970 to c 1979, Urban communities, Demonstrations & protest movements, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice