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Drugs Politics
Iranhasoneoftheworld’shighestratesofdrugaddiction,estimatedtobe
betweentwoandsevenpercentoftheentirepopulation.Thismakesthe
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 attemptsat controllingandregulatingillicit drugsaffected
drugconsumptionandaddiction?Byansweringthesequestions,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 titleis
also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core at doi.org/10.1017/
9781108567084.
MAZIYAR GHIABI is an Italian/Iranian social scientist, ethnographer and
historian, currently a lecturer at the University of Oxford and Titular
Lecturer at Wadham College. Prior to this position, he was a
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paris School of Advanced Studies in Social
Sciences (EHESS) and a member of the Institut de Recherche
Interdisciplinaire des Enjeux Sociaux (IRIS). After finishing his BA and
MA at the University of Ca’ Foscari Venice, he obtained a Doctorate in
PoliticsattheUniversityofOxford(StAntony’sCollege)wherehewasa
WellcomeTrustScholarinSocietyandEthics(2013–17).Hisinterestfalls
at the crossroads of different disciplinary and intellectual fields, from
medical anthropology to politics to modern social history across the
MiddleEastandtheMediterranean.HeistheeditorofPowerandIllicit
DrugsintheGlobalSouth(Routledge,2018).
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Drugs Politics
Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic
of Iran
maziyar ghiabi
UniversityofOxford
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InmemoriamMassimoRiva, javanmard,forhisloveofliving
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Contents
Acknowledgements pageix
ListofFigures xiii
ListofTables xv
NoteonTransliteration xvi
PersianGlossary xvii
EnglishGlossary xix
Prologue 1
‘NottheKingbuttheMinister...NottheLawbutthePolice...’ 3
1 TheDrugAssemblage 16
PartOne 33
2 AGenealogyofDrugsPolitics:OpiatesunderthePahlavi 35
3 Drugs,Revolution,War 71
4 ReformismandDrugs:FormalandInformalPoliticsof
HarmReduction 98
Interregnum 137
5 CrisisasanInstitution:TheExpediencyCouncil 139
PartTwo 163
6 TheAnthropologicalMutationofMethamphetamines 165
7 TheArtofManagingDisorder 189
8 DrugsandPopulism:AhmadinejadandGrassroots
Authoritarianism 232
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viii Contents
Epilogue 267
Power,Crisis,Drugs 269
SelectBibliography 289
Index 323
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