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UNINA9910459192403321 |
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Autore |
Dabashi Hamid |
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Iran, the green movement and the USA : the fox and the paradox / / Hamid Dabashi |
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London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Zed Books, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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1-78360-194-9 |
1-84813-818-0 |
1-282-90338-1 |
9786612903380 |
9781848131641 |
1-84813-817-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civil rights movements - Iran |
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Iran Politics and government 1997- |
Iran Foreign relations United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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About the author; Acknowledgments; Prologue | A Parable; One | The Paradox; Two | Jammed in a Jungle and Nowhere to Go; Three | The Fox in the Hen House; 'Where is my vote?'; Four | It's a Jungle Out There; Battle Formations; The al-Qaeda Factor; The Nuclear Nexus; The Iraq Factor; The Watchful Fox; All Fall Down; Five | Outfoxing the Wily Fox; A Paradigm Shift; The White Moderates; Back to the Geopolitics of the Region; Bearing Witness; The Changing Cosmopolis; Six | Paradox Redux; Brahmanic Wisdom; The Case of Thrasymachus; Brownshirts, Blackshirts, and Plainclothes |
Social Networking and the Making of a Civil Rights Movement Seven | The Fox in the Box; Whence the Green Movement; Home and Exile; Imagining a Liberated Homeland; Returning Home; Can Iranians Speak?; Eight | Retrieval of a Cosmopolitan Culture; Love Letters; Covering the Evidence; Qeshr-e Sonnati; The Retrieval of a Cosmopolitan Culture on |
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the Site of the Social Body; La Vita Nuda: Anarchic versus Erotic Bodies; Limits of Governmentality: Multiple Consciousness and Parabolic Interactionism; The Defiant Corpus Eroticus; Conclusion | People and Their Parables; Notes; Prologue; Chapter One |
Chapter Two Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Iran, the Green Movement and the USA presents the paradox that the USA faces in dealing with Iran over its nuclear armament: negotiate, and legitimize Ahmadinejad's otherwise troubled presidency; resort to sanctions or military strikes, and altogether destroy the budding civil rights campaign of the Green Movement. Either way, as leading Iranian scholar Hamid Dabashi argues, the Islamic Republic will become even stronger. Featuring a short history of how the USA and Iran came to be in this confrontation, this elegantly written book provides the reader with a dynamic picture of the regional |
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