Part I. Religion, Politics, and Discourse -- The Tenth Presidential Elections and their Aftermath / Farideh Farhi -- The Political Economy of the Green Movement : Contestation and Political Mobilization in Iran / Fariba Adelkhah -- From "Reform" to "Rights" : Mapping a Changing Discourse in Iran, 1997-2009 / Negin Nabavi -- The Sacred in Fragments : Shi'i Iran since the 1979 Revolution / Babak Rahimi -- Part II. National Ideology, the Economy, and the State -- Matters of Authenticity : Nationalism, Islam and Ethnic Diversity in Iran / Rasmus Christian Elling -- From "Enemies of the Revolution" to Unfulfilled Ideal : Private Industrial Entrepreneurs in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Kjetil Selvik -- Part III. Women, Youth, and Society -- The Green Movement : A struggle against Islamist Patriarchy? / Fatemeh Sadeghi -- Socio-demographic Changes in the Family and their Impact on the Socio-Political Behavior of the Youth in Post-Revolutionary Iran / Marie Ladier-Fouladi
Summary
Recent Iranian history has been full of unexpected turns. Whether it was the 1979 revolution, the rise to power of the reformist movement in 1997, or the emergence of the Green Movement in June 2009, the world was taken unawares at every juncture. This book brings together essays that both speculate on the import of the developments of 2009 and also shed light on the complexities and the ever-changing dynamics of post-revolutionary Iran