Drugs politics : : managing disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran / / Maziyar Ghiabi.
Iran has one of the world's highest rates of drug addiction: estimated to be between 2 and 7 percent of the entire population. This makes the questions that this book asks all the more salient: what is the place of illegal substances in the politics of modern Iran? How have drugs affected the f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 343 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jun 2019). |
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Table of Contents:
- The drug assemblage
- A genealogy of drug politics : opiates under the Pahlavi
- Drugs, revolution, war
- Reformism and drugs : formal and informal politics of harm reduction
- Crisis as an institution : the expediency council
- The anthropological mutation of methamphetamines
- The maintenance of disorder
- Drugs and populism : Ahmadinejad and grassroots authoritarianism
- Epilogue : power, crisis, drugs.