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When we talk about human rights in Iran, the first thing that comes to mind is the torture of political prisoners. Amir Fakhravar is one of the eye witnesses to torture in the Islamic Republic prisons. He spent over five years of my life in prison, under torture, and over 15 years in the corridors of the Revolutionary courts.

AbstractThe Islamic Revolution of 1979, the student protests of 1999, and the Iranian Green Movement are among the most important social movements in contemporary Iran. This tumultuous history makes Iran a prime candidate for any analysis of social movements and collective action. However, a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between studies of Iranian social movements and the larger literature on collective behavior and social movements is yet to be conducted. I divide the literature on Iranian social movements between works focusing on the Islamic Revolution and those addressing movements in post‐revolutionary Iran with a focus on the Iranian Green Movement and point out the major foci of each category. Analyses of the Islamic Revolution mostly emphasize the role of grievances, political opportunities, and Shi'a ideology. Works on post‐revolutionary movements are mainly concerned with analyzing the role of political opportunities and internet and communication technologies. Overall, studies of Iranian social movements seem to be moving towards more connection with and application of mainstream theories of social movements. Nevertheless, I identify four areas with room for improvement: (a) a continuous connection to and dialogue with the mainstream literature on collective behavior and social movements; (b) an emphasis on the use of cutting‐edge analytic techniques, especially quantitative ones; (c) increasing the number of studies that address issue‐specific social movements such as the women's and LGBT rights or environmental movements; and (d) conducting more comparative studies on Iran and a variety of different societies. In addition, I suggest that the scholarship on social movements in contemporary Iran can benefit studies of social movements in general by testing and modifying theories in a sociopolitical setting that is different from where they originally focused on.

Chapter 1. Introduction. Political participation and reformism in Iran -- Chapter 2. Locating Reform. The origin of reformism and situated research -- Chapter 3. Reformism as a state project -- Chapter 4. Reformism, Political Participation and Civil Society. Crafting consent and managing counter-power -- Chapter 5. Reformism, political participation and resistance -- Chapter 6. Conclusion. Lineages of change.

<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Drawing on ethnographic data collected in 2010, this paper unpacks the notion of social citizenship as it bears on the lives of young Iranian immigrant activists in Canada. Drawing on our researcher and activist standpoints, we examine activist youth's involvement in the Green Movement<em> </em>– a global movement of dissent in response to the 2009 presidential elections in Iran. In doing so, we move beyond<em> </em>the duality of identity and belonging as mediated by a sense of nationhood to either Iran or Canada. Rather, through the lens of social citizenship, we shed light on the ways in which the Green Movement, as an activist practice, was a space of emancipation. We explore the ways in which support for and momentum of an initiative created and led by youth enabled them to engage as citizens in ways that challenged the notion that citizenship is defined merely by geographic borders; globalized social, cultural, and political contexts were more significant in characterizing their citizenship.</span></p>

Critical Literature Review -- Theorizing the Green Movement : A Foucauldian Model -- The Coming of a Disciplinary Society to Post-Revolutionary Iran : Ordinary Iranians and Everyday Resistance -- Social Mobilization and Political Contestation in Iran at the Turn of the Millennium : The 1999 Student Movement and the 2006 Women's One Million Signature Campaign -- The Green Movement as a Movement of Movements and the Rise of a Homegrown, Rights-Based Society in Post-Revolutionary Iran Conclusion : What were the Iranians Dreaming about in 2009? The Green Movement of Counterconduct : A History of the Past, the Present and the Future

Shows that the Dutch green movement treats animals in terms of their collective existence as species, rather than as sentient, individual beings. It is further maintained that as soon as animals have ceased being fauna, & become part of the capitalist production & consumption system, the green movement no longer recognizes them as nature. It is concluded that the environmental movement is trapped by its own anthropocentrism. W. Howard

This book studies the political communications of the Iranian Green Movement of 2009, linking the events both to the revolution of 1979 and the protests of 2017-2018 to explore the conditions that contributed to the demise of the movement. Data is drawn from YouTube videos and analyzed through critical discourse analysis