Drugs Politics Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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 f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ghiabi, Maziyar, 1986- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press [2019]
Edición:First edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009420083006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.