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Global 1979 : geographies and histories of the Iranian Revolution / edited by Arang Keshavarzian, Ali Mirsepassi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The global Middle East ; 18.
- The global Middle East ; 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iran--History--Revolution, 1979.
- Iran.
- Iran--History--Revolution, 1979--Historiography.
- Iran--Politics and government--1979-1997.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 456 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- The Iranian revolution of 1979 not only had an impact on regional and international affairs, but was made possible by the world and time in which it unfolded. This multi-disciplinary volume presents this revolution within its transnational and global contexts. Moving deftly from the personal to the global and from the provincial to the national, it draws attention to the multiplicity of spaces of the revolution such as streets, schools, prisons, personal lives, and histories such as the Cold War and Global 1960s and 70s. With a broad range of approaches, Global 1979 conceives of the Iranian Revolution not as exceptional or anachronistic, but as an uprising constituted by multiple, interwoven geographies and histories, which disrupt static and bounded notions of the local, national, regional, and global.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Orientations
- Introduction
- 1 A Quiet Revolution: In the Shadow of the Cold War
- The Thought and Unthought on the 1979 Revolution
- Framing the 1979 Revolution
- The Mistaken Revolution?
- Revolution in a Time of ''Prosperity''?
- Emergent Questions
- 2 Globalizing the Iranian Revolution: A Multiscalar History
- The Global as Theory and Variable
- Extending Spatial Scope and Temporal Range
- Conclusion
- Part I Global Shadows
- 3 Seeing the World from a Humble Corner: A Political Memoir
- Islam and Marxism in Our Town
- Imagining Iran
- Chashmhayash (Her Eyes)
- ''God in Our Classroom''
- Small Town, Grand World (Donya)
- Banality of Evil?
- 4 Iranian Diasporic Possibilities: Tracing Transnational Feminist Genealogies from the Revolutionary Margins
- Rethinking the Narrative of the Global Iranian Left
- A Possible Genealogy of Transnational Feminism
- The Formation and Impact of ISA Women's Committees
- Socialist Feminist Gestures, Transnational Feminist Concerns
- Part II Militarized Cartographies
- 5 ''In a Forest of Humans'': The Urban Cartographies of Theory and Action in 1970s Iranian Revolutionary Socialism
- Between the Mountain, the City, and the World
- Double Encirclement
- Roars in a Forest of Humans
- Theater of Action
- Seeing the City like a Fighter
- Discovering the Toiler
- Praxis in the Alleys
- Going to the People
- Vietnam in Tehran
- 6 Revolutionaries for Life: The IRGC and the Global Guerrilla Movement
- Global Guerrillas and Islamist Activists: The Infrastructure
- The Transnational Clerical Network
- Iranian Islamist Guerrillas Abroad: Montazeri and Chamran.
- Islamists and Global Guerrillas: Ideas and Practices
- The Rise of the IRGC as a Revolutionary State Militia
- An Insurgent State Militia
- Global Guerrillas, How?
- IRGC's Expansion and Preservation of Guerrilla Identity
- Conclusion: Global Militants after the Age of Revolutions
- Part III Hidden Genealogies
- 7 ''A Sky Drowning in Stars'': Global '68, the Death of Takhti, and the Birth of the Iranian Revolution
- February '79
- Mai '68
- Dey '46
- Mai '67
- Bahman '46
- Bahman '68
- Bahman '57
- 8 ''We Must Have a Defense Build-up'': The Iranian Revolution, Regional Security, and American Vulnerability
- National Vulnerability and Regional Security in the 1970s
- The 1976 F-16 Hearings
- Carter, the Free World, and National Interests
- The ''Loss of Iran'' and US-Saudi Relations
- Carter's Critics
- AWACS from Tehran to Riyadh
- Part IV Circulating Knowledge
- 9 The Criminal Is the Patient, the Prison Will Be the Cure: Building the Carceral Imagination in Pahlavi Iran
- Early Reforms
- Global Networks, Iranian Prisons
- The Prison as Problem
- Iranian Criminology and the Science of Prisons
- Pahlavi Prison Reform
- Conclusion: The Limits of Carceral Modernity
- 10 The Cold War and Education in Science and Engineering in Iran, 1953-1979
- Redefining Priorities
- Science, Technology, and the Cold War: The Global Context
- Cold War and Culture
- Educational Reform
- Part V Aspirational Universalisms
- 11 Between Illusion and Aspiration: Morteza Avini's Cinema and Theory of Global Revolution
- The Disenfranchised Poor: A Revolutionary Subject
- Film-Truth: The Poor as Image and the Poor as Subject
- The Tension of Cosmopolitanism and Universalism
- Political Revolution and the Awakening of Nature
- Conclusion: Ambition and Frustration.
- 12 Planetarity: The Anti-disciplinary Object of Iranian Studies
- Select Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Jul 2021).
- ISBN:
- 1-108-98265-4
- 1-108-98269-7
- 1-108-97965-3
- OCLC:
- 1266907420
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