Drugs politics : managing disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Maziyar Ghiabi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ghiabi, Maziyar, 1986- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug control--Iran.

Drug control.

Drug abuse--Iran.

Drug abuse.

Drug abuse--Government policy--Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 343 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 formation of the Iranian state and its power dynamics? And how have governmental attempts at controlling and regulating illicit drugs affected drug consumption and addiction? By answering these questions, Maziyar Ghiabi suggests that the Islamic Republic of Iran's image as an inherently conservative state is not only misplaced and inaccurate, but in part a myth. In order to dispel this myth, he skilfully combines ethnographic narratives from drug users, vivid field observations from 'under the bridge', with archival material from the pre- and post-revolutionary era, statistics on drug arrests and interviews with public officials. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jun 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108680172

1108680178

9781108622387

1108622380

9781108567084

1108567088

OCLC:

1107842147