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Drugs Politics - Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran (Paperback)
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Drugs Politics - Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran (Paperback)
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Iran has one of the world's highest rates of drug addiction:
estimated to be between 2 and 7 percent of the entire population.
This makes the questions that 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 of Iran'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.
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