Inside the Islamic republic : social change in post-Khomeini Iran

Inside the Islamic republic : social change in post-Khomeini Iran Mahmood Monshipouri, editor - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016. ©2016. - 1 online resource (366 pages)

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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: Social Change in post-Khomeini Iran -- Part I: Nationalism, Democracy, Theocracy and Identity Construction -- 1. What is Power in Iran? The Shifting Foundations of the Velayat-e Faqih -- 2. Post-Revolutionary Iran: Democracy or Theocracy -- 3. After Religion: Assessing a Liberal Shift Among Iranians in the Post-Khomeini Period -- Part II: Women, Families, Human Rights and Immigrants -- 4. Women and Criminal Law in post-Khomeini Iran -- 5. A Revolution within Two Revolutions: Women and Literature in Contemporary Iran -- 6. The Iranian Family in Transition -- 7. The State of Human Rights in Iran -- 8. US-Iran Tensions in post-Khomeini Iran, and Iranian Immigrants in the United States -- Part III: Cinema and Pop Music -- 9. The Politics and Poetics of Iranian Art-House Cinema -- 10. The Re-emergence and Evolution of Pop Music in the Islamic Republic of Iran: From Heavenly to Earthly Love -- Part IV: Political Economy of Social Change -- 11. The Economic and Political Role of Bonyads (Parastatal Foundations) in the Islamic Republic -- 12. Re-mapping of the Corporate Landscape in Iran -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Goes beyond the media stereotype of fashionable parties in North Tehran to examine the quotidian realities of how society has evolved in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

9780197548011


1989-2016


Gesellschaft
Politisches System
Politischer Wandel
Sozialer Wandel


Iran

Iran-Politics and government Iran-Social conditions


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