Mass Protests in Iran : From Resistance to Overthrow / Masoud Kazemzadeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kazemzadeh, Masoud, author.

Series:

De Gruyter contemporary social sciences ; Volume 38.

De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Series ; Volume 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

Summary:

Mass Protests in Iran: From Resistance to Overthrow explores the various waves of protests in Iran over the past 44 years, surveying their causes, consequences, and outcomes. The author argues that the regime and its support base of fundamentalist groups constitute a minority in Iran and lack legitimacy, and thus the regime uses repression and violence to secure its rule. The result is a pre-revolutionary situation and a shifting political landscape of overthrows, constant mass protests and mass repression. Kazemzadeh's analysis highlights the factors that would assist the fundamentalist regime in succeeding in suppressing these protests, and the factors that would assist the Iranian people in defeating the fundamentalist regime.Written in an accessible style, this timely book offers a much-needed contribution to the literature on Iranian politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars, as well as policy makers, interested in Middle Eastern studies, social movements, protest movements, political science and sociology.

Contents:

Intro

About the Author

Preface and Acknowledgments

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Green Movement, 2009- 2010

Chapter 3 Mass Protests, December 2017 -January 2018

Chapter 4 The Political Situation in 2022

Chapter 5 Woman, Life, Freedom, the 2022 -2023 Mass Protests

Chapter 6 Conclusion: Regime Survival or Regime Collapse

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-128028-4