Drugs Politics - Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran
dc.contributor.author | Ghiabi, M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-21T14:56:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-06-20 | |
dc.description.abstract | Iran has one of the world's highest rates of drug addiction: estimated to be between 2 and 7 percent of the entire population. This makes the questions that this book asks all the more salient: what is the place of illegal substances in the politics of modern Iran? How have drugs affected the formation of the Iranian state and its power dynamics? And how have governmental attempts at controlling and regulating illicit drugs affected drug consumption and addiction? By answering these questions, Maziyar Ghiabi suggests that the Islamic Republic of Iran's image as an inherently conservative state is not only misplaced and inaccurate, but in part a myth. In order to dispel this myth, he skilfully combines ethnographic narratives from drug users, vivid field observations from 'under the bridge', with archival material from the pre- and post-revolutionary era, statistics on drug arrests and interviews with public officials. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Wellcome Trust | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/9781108567084 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | WT10988MA | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/122941 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) | en_GB |
dc.rights | © Maziyar Ghiabi 2019. Open access under a Creative Commons Open Access license CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 which permits re-use, distribution and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes providing appropriate credit to the original work is given. You may not distribute derivative works without permission. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 All versions of this work may contain content reproduced under license from third parties. Permission to reproduce this third-party content must be obtained from these third-parties directly. | en_GB |
dc.title | Drugs Politics - Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran | en_GB |
dc.type | Book | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-21T14:56:46Z | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 1108475450 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781108475457 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-06-20 | |
rioxxterms.type | Book | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-09-21T14:54:56Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-09-21T14:56:51Z |
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