Iran’s Green Movement: Everyday Resistance, Political Contestation and Social Mobilization 9780367744458, 9780367744465, 9781003157885

Table of contents :
Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter breakdown
Chapter 1: Critical literature review
Introduction
Characterizing the green movement
Mainstream social movement theories
American social movement theories
European social movement theories
Social movement theories and specificities of MENA oppositional movements: Mobilizing structures and the politics of everyday life
MENA and the politics of everyday life
Applying political process theory to Iran and other MENA countries
New social movement theories and their application to Iran and other MENA cases
Social movement studies and MENA oppositional movements
MENA societies, social movements and essentialism
Social movement theories and their uncritical application to MENA
Iran’s green movement as a movement of movements
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Theorizing the Green Movement: A Foucauldian model
Introduction
Social sciences as political science: The political Foucault
Foucault, studies of governmentality and the power–resistance nexus: A constellational approach
A constellational governmentality
What of governmentality?
Foucault and modalities of power
Foucault, power and resistance
Foucault, governmentality and movements of counterconduct
Iran’s Islamist governmentality: The Green Movement as a localized case of counterconduct
Triangular research methodology
Conclusion
Chapter 3: The coming of a disciplinary society to post-revolutionary Iran: Ordinary Iranians and everyday resistance
Introduction
Governmentality: A Foucauldian account of power and resistance
An Islamist governmentality: The Islamic republic and the governmentalization of religion
The emergence of a disciplinary and biopolitical society in post-revolutionary Iran
The Islamic republic and the governmentalization of public spaces
The Islamic republic and the governmentalization of Iranian strata
The Islamic republic: The everyday mechanics and techniques of control
The Islamic Republic and the art of repression
Post-revolutionary Iran: Iranians, the everyday life and everyday resistance
Everyday resistance and post-revolutionary movements of counterconduct
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Social mobilization and political contestation in Iran at the turn of the millennium: The 1999 student movement and the 2006 women’s one million signature campaign
Introduction
Governmentality, discourse, and the politics of contestation
The death of the Ayatollah Khomeini: The emergence of two antithetical discourses, one absolutist the other reformist
The coming of an absolutist discourse in the post-Khomeini era
Reformism as counterdiscourse: Roots, ideas, and genesis
Islamist governmentality negated: Reformism as a religio-democratized governmental project
Iranian society prior to presidential election of 1997
The presidential campaign and subsequent victory of Mohammad Khatami
Political contestation in post-1997 Iran: Reformists vs. absolutists
Reformist and absolutist discourses and students and the battle of ideas
Student activism in post-revolutionary Iran: A brief history
Reformism in practice: Khatami and students
Absolutism in practice: The conservative establishment and students
The 1999 student uprising
Women and politics of social contestation
A revolution Triumph: Women’s activism in the early and mid-1980
The absolutist discourse and women
The coming of post-Islamist feminists to the political scene
Reformist discourse and women
The reformist government and the new activism on the part of women
Women and the conservative establishment
Presence-as-resistance: Women, public spaces, and the politics of social contestation
The 2006 Women’s One Million Signature Campaign: The everyday politics of social contestation
Conclusion
Chapter 5: The Green Movement as a movement of movements and the rise of a home-grown rights-based society in post-revolutionary Iran
Introduction
Foucault, governmentality and counterconduct
Ahmadinejad’s rise to power: The emergence of a neo-absolutist discourse
The new right, the neo-absolutist discourse and the rise of a neo-Islamist governmentality
Neo-Islamist governmentalization in practice: The micro-macro practices of governing life
Presence-as-resistance: The everyday politics of negation and rejection
The months and weeks preceding the 2009 presidential election
The 2009 presidential campaign
The Green Movement as a movement of movements
A home-grown, rights-based society: Reformism-reconfigured and the rise of a new counterdiscourse in post-revolutionary Iran
Reformism-reconfigured and the green movement symbolic leaders
Conclusion
Conclusion: What were the Iranians dreaming about in 2009? The Green Movement of counterconduct: A history of the past, the present and the future
The Green Movement: History, presence and future
The revolution of 1979 and the 2009 Green Movement: What were in 2009 Iranians dreaming, again?
The post-revolutionary movements of counterconduct: The social as political
Bibliography
List of Interviews
Farsi References
English References
Index