Iran, the green movement and the USA : the fox and the paradox / / Hamid Dabashi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459192403321
• Autore: Dabashi Hamid
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Zed Books, , 2010; ©2010
• ISBN: 1-78360-194-9; 1-84813-818-0; 1-282-90338-1; 9786612903380; 9781848131641; 1-84813-817-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.55073
• Soggetti: Civil rights movements - Iran; Electronic books.; Iran Politics and government 1997-; Iran Foreign relations United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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

The Ecological Role of Salamanders as Predators and Prey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910566458503321
• Autore: Sebastiano Salvidio
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (122 p.)
• Soggetti: Research & information: general
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Salamanders are relevant components of many terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. However, despite the importance of salamanders in many resource-consumer networks, their functional role remains remarkably understudied. Therefore, this volume, entitled The Ecological Role of Salamanders as Prey and Predators, provides an opportunity for researchers to highlight the new research on the ecological role of ; salamanders and newts in prey-predator systems, their trophic behavior, and the variability of their trophic niche in space and time. Various innovative methods, such as COI metabarcoding and network analysis, are applied in the present study to test both the classical and new hypotheses concerning the trophic ecology of salamanders and their interactions with their prey. The present volume is composed of one review and seven research papers, all of which are published after undergoing a complete and impartial peer-review process.