Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice

1. Introduction: How to Approach This Book
Peyman Vahabzadeh

2. Historical and Conceptual Preparations for a Multidisciplinary Study of Social Justice in Iran
Peyman Vahabzadeh

3. Gazing Upon the Land of Oil Through the Prism of Structure, Elite Action, and Civil Society
Hajar Amidian

4. The Unmaking of the Iranian Working Class since the 1990s
Mohammad Maljoo

5. Charity or Mass Mobilization? Public Religion and the Struggle for Economic Justice
Siavash Saffari

6. Iran’s Cooperative Movement: Agony of Development
Kaveh Sarmast

7. Social Justice; Anti-imperialist, Racist, Persian-centric, and Shi‘i-centric Discursive Formations of the Ideal Citizen and Iranian School Textbooks: A Social Biography Response
Amir Mirfakhraie

8. Justice Interrupted: The University and the Imam
Ardalan Rezamand

9. Ethical–Political Praxis: Social Justice and the Resistant Subject in Iran
Shokoufeh Sakhi

10. Intergenerational Memory in Children of the Jacaranda Tree

Nima Naghibi

11. Social Media as a Site of Transformative Politics: Iranian Women’s Online Contestations
Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani

12. Performative Agency: A Realization of an Objective Clash of “Social Justice” Discourses or a Requiem for a Subjective Silence
Sara Naderi

13. The Voice of the Workers: Iran’s Labour Movement and Reflections on the Project-Seasonal Workers’ Union of Abadan, 1979–1980
Mohammad Safavi

14. An Unfinished Odyssey: The Iranian Student Movement’s Struggles for Social Justice
Roozbeh Safshekan

15. The Left’s Contribution to Social Justice in Iran: A Brief Historical Overview
Afshin Matin-asgari

16. Iran: Multiple Sources of a Grassroots Social Democracy?
Mojtaba Mahdavi

17. Social Justice and Democracy in Iran: In Search of the Missing Link
Peyman Vahabzadeh

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Political Sociology, Middle Eastern Politics