Iran's Environmental Challenges and Movements on the Margins: Beyond the Centre

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hassaniyan, Allan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This book shifts the focus of Iran's environmental crises from policy failures and technocratic mismanagement to the lived experiences of those at the periphery: non-Persian national communities, rural populations, farmers and displaced peoples. Drawing on original narratives and critical analysis, it reveals how water scarcity, mega-dams, interbasin water transfers and unsustainable development intersect with long histories of marginalisation, extractive industries and securitised state responses. Allan Hassaniyan highlights how environmental degradation has become a matter of survival for Iran's subalterns, exposing the deeply political dimensions of Iranian ecology. Bridging environmental studies, political ecology and critical area studies, this timely work fills a significant gap in English-language scholarship, as well as spotlighting the unequal and often devastating consequences of the state's environmental crisis for its most vulnerable communities.

ISBN:

9781399563284