Iran's Green Movement: Everyday Resistance, Political Contestation and Social Mobilization - Paperback

by Navid Pourmokhtari (Author)

This book examines the emergence and development of the 2009 Green Movement in Iran. The approach emphasizes the context and the local and historical specificities in which mass oppositional movements arise, develop and conduct their operations.

Author Biography

Navid Pourmokhtari is Assistant Professor of Governance, Law, and Management at Athabasca University. His teaching and research interests lie in gender and feminism, global governance, social movements and revolutions, and international peace and security. Pourmokhtari is also the author of Toward a Paradigm Shift in International Relations Studies: (Re)Claiming World Peace. His other publications have appeared in Third World Quarterly, Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, International Sociology, Against the Current, Jadaliyya, the Journal of Human Trafficking, Sociology of Islam, Foucault Studies, and the Journal of International Women's Studies.