Iran's Green Movement Everyday Resistance, Political Contestation and Social Mobilization

Introduction

1. Critical Literature Review

2. Theorizing the Green Movement: A Foucauldian Model

3. The Coming of a Disciplinary Society to Post-Revolutionary Iran: Ordinary Iranians and Everyday Resistance

4. Social Mobilization and Political Contestation in Iran at the Turn of the Millennium: The 1999 Student Movement and the 2006 Women’s One Million Signature Campaign

5. The Green Movement as a Movement of Movements and the Rise of a Home-Grown, Rights-Based Society in Post-Revolutionary Iran

Conclusion: What were the Iranians Dreaming about in 2009? The Green Movement of Counterconduct: A History of the Past, the Present and the Future

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Navid Pourmokhtari is Assistant Professor of Governance, Law, and Management at Athabasca University. His teaching and research interests lie in gender and feminism, global governance, social movements and revolutions, and international peace and security. Pourmokhtari is also the author of Toward a Paradigm Shift in International Relations Studies: (Re)Claiming World Peace. His other publications have appeared in Third World Quarterly, Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, International Sociology, Against the Current, Jadaliyya, the Journal of Human Trafficking, Sociology of Islam, Foucault Studies, and the Journal of International Women’s Studies.

"In a book that will grip scholars of global social movements and the Middle East and policymakers, Navid Pourmokhtari deploys a nuanced reading of Foucault on power and resistance to great narrative effect in tracing the history of the 2009 Iranian Green Movement."

John Foran, University of California, USA

"In this timely and informative book, Navid Pourmokhtari addresses some of the most pressing questions about the Iranian Green Movement that emerged in 2009. This is an essential read for anyone wishing to understand the great struggle within Iranian society for democracy and social justice."

Ramin Jahanbegloo, Jindal Global University, India

"Navid Pourmokhtari enlists Michel Foucault to provide a careful and original account of Iran's 2009 Green Movement as a broad-based civil rights movement. This book gives an excellent account of the Green Movement's history and some possible futures for Iranian social and political life."

Corey McCall, Penn State University, USA　

"Pourmokhtari’s fascinating book presents a Foucauldian analysis of Iran’s 2009 Green Movement, a "movement of movements" which sought civic rights and democratic accountability. To do so, he also adroitly analyzes the disciplinary project of the Islamic Republic and everyday forms of resistance to it."

Jeff Goodwin, New York University, USA

"The Green Movement of 2009 in Iran introduced a new generation of popular uprisings of the 21st Century. Navid Pourmokhtari's book is a welcome addition to a growing literature on one of the most remarkable political movements in the Middle East and beyond."

Asef Bayat, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

"More than a decade after the rise of a major civil rights movement in Iran, this book is the most mature and balanced assessment of what happened when millions of Iranians poured into their streets demanding liberation from tyranny and freedom to be integral to the democratic aspiration of their homeland. About half a dozen volumes and countless learned essays later, Pourmokhtari’s seminal study is a living testimony that social uprisings and the manner of reading them for the posterity are the engine of history. A superb book and an indispensable work of scholarship."

Hamid Dabashi, Author of The Fox and the Paradox: Iran, the Green Movement and the USA