Drugs politics : managing disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | Iran has one of the world's highest rates of drug addiction, estimated to be between two and seven per cent of the entire population. This makes the questions 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'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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core at doi.org/10.1017/9781108567084. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 PDF file (xix, 343 pages)) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108567084 1108567088 1108475450 9781108475457 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108567084 |