Planning and Power in Iran

Planning and Power in Iran
Author: Frances Bostock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135179905

An account of the career of Abol Hassan Ebtehaj.

Petroleum and Progress in Iran

Petroleum and Progress in Iran
Author: Gregory Brew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2022-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009206338

From the 1940s to 1960s, Iran developed into the world's first 'petro-state', where oil represented the bulk of state revenue and supported an industrializing economy, expanding middle class, and powerful administrative and military apparatus. Drawing on both American and Iranian sources, Gregory Brew outlines how the Pahlavi petro-state emerged from a confluence of forces – some global, some local. He shows how the shah's particular form of oil-based authoritarianism evolved from interactions with American developmentalists, Pahlavi technocrats, and major oil companies, all against the looming backdrop of the United States' Cold War policy and the coup d'etat of August 1953. By placing oil at the centre of the Cold War narrative, Brew contextualises Iran's pro-Western alignment and slide into petrolic authoritarianism. Synthesising a wide range of sources and research methods, this book demonstrates that the Pahlavi petro-state was not born, but made, and not solely by the Pahlavi shah.

Revolutionary Bodies

Revolutionary Bodies
Author: K. S. Batmanghelichi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350050040

Gender and sexuality in modern Iran is frequently examined through the prism of nationalist symbols and religious discourse from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book, Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi takes a different approach, by interrogating how normative ideas of women's bodies in state, religious, and public health discourses have resulted in the female body being deemed as immodest and taboo. Through a diverse blend of sources -a popular cultural women's journal, a red-light district, cases studies of temporary marriages, iconic public statues, and an HIV-AIDS advocacy organization in Tehran - this work argues that conceptions of gender and sexuality have been mediated in public discourse and experienced and modified by women themselves over the past thirty years of the Islamic Republic. Expanding upon existing philosophical theory, technological research and scholarship on gender and sexuality in Iran, this book focuses much needed attention on under-studied, marginalized communities, such as widows living with HIV. This work interrogates how bodily technologies are constructed discursively and socially in Iran and the values and perspectives which are incorporated in them.

The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: S. Steinberg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1595
Release: 2016-12-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230270816

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran

Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran
Author: Rana Habibi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-11-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9004443703

In Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran – Reproduction of an Archetype, Rana Habibi offers an engaging analysis of the modern urban history of Tehran during the Cold War period: 1945–1979. The book, while arguing about the institutionalism of modernity in the form of modern middle-class housing in Tehran, shows how vernacular archetypes found their way into the construction of new neighborhoods. The trajectory of ideal modernism towards popular modernism, the introduction of modern taste to traditional society through architects, while tracing the path of transnational models in local projects, are all subjects extensively expounded by Rana Habibi through engaging graphical analyses and appealing theoretical interpretations involving five modern Tehran neighborhoods.

Conceiving Citizens

Conceiving Citizens
Author: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2011-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199913161

While Iranian women have most frequently been viewed through the politics of veiling, Conceiving Citizens interprets modern Iranian politics and society through the history of women's health and sexuality. Drawing on archival documents and manuscript sources from Iran and elsewhere, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet illustrates how debates over hygiene, reproductive politics, and sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries explained demographic trends and put women at the center of nationalist debates. Exploring women's lives under successive regimes, she chronicles the hygiene campaigns that cast mothers as custodians of a healthy civilization; debates over female education, employment, and political rights; government policies on contraception and population control; and tensions between religion and secularism.