Nostalgia in Late Pahlavi Iran

"This innovative study explores the forms, expressions, and narratives of nostalgia in both popular society and the state in late Pahlavi Iran. Zhand Shakibi examines the rise and spread of nostalgia through sources ranging across mass media, literature, court proceedings and state policy, offering a new dimension to the study of the period"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Those were the days; 3. Nostalgia and the late Pahlavi state; 4. Nostalgic triad; 5. Love and marriage; 6. Mind the generation gap; 7. The hippies are coming! The hippies are coming!; 8. Mother's guest: Urban Nostalgia; 9. What were those days?; 10. Law and order; 11. O' The ruthless ones!; Epilogue; Select bibliography; Index.

About the author

Zhand Shakibi is an Associate of the IDEAS Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Visiting Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Tehran. His research focuses on modern Iranian history and modern Russian history and politics. Previous publications include Pahlavi Iran and the Politics of Occidentalism (2020), Khatami and Gorbachev: Politics of Change in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the USSR (2010).

Product details

• Authors: Zhand Shakibi, Zhand (London School of Economics and Pol Shakibi, Zhand (London School of Economics and Political Science) Shakibi, Shakibi Zhand
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009574310
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0957431-0
• No. of pages: 409
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Iran, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, History of Ideas, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Middle East / General, c 1960 to c 1970, Middle Eastern history, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980