Maziyar Ghiabi

Drugs Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers new and cutting-edge research on the role of drugs in Iranian society and government. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781108475457
• ISBN-10: 1108475450
• Artikelnr.: 54606447

Autorenporträt

Maziyar Ghiabi is an Italian/Iranian social scientist, ethnographer and historian, currently a lecturer at the University of Oxford and Titular Lecturer at Wadham College. Prior to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paris School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) and a member of the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire des Enjeux Sociaux (IRIS). After finishing his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Ca' Foscari Venice, he obtained a Doctorate in Politics at the University of Oxford (St Antony's College) where he was a Wellcome Trust Scholar in Society and Ethics (2013-17). His interest falls at the crossroads of different disciplinary and intellectual fields, from medical anthropology to politics to modern social history across the Middle East and the Mediterranean. He is the editor of Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The drugs assemblage, Part I: 2. A genealogy of drugs politics: opiates under the Pahlavi
3. Drugs, revolution, war
4. Reformism and drugs: formal and informal politics of harm reduction
5. Crisis as an institution: the Expediency Council
Part II: 6. The anthropological mutation of methamphetamines
7. The maintenance of disorder
8. Drugs and populism: Ahmadinejad and grassroots authoritarianism.