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Drugs Politics Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 213.205.194.120, on 21 Jun 2019 at 10:36:11, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/E2EFB2A2A59AC5C2D6854BC4C4501558 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 213.205.194.120, on 21 Jun 2019 at 10:36:11, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/E2EFB2A2A59AC5C2D6854BC4C4501558 Drugs Politics 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. 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 Politics at the University of Oxford (St Antony’s College) where he was a Wellcome Trust Scholar in Society and Ethics (2013–17). His interest falls at the crossroads of different disciplinary and intellectual fields, from medical anthropology to politics to modern social history across the Middle East and the Mediterranean. He is the editor of Power and Illicit Drugs in the Global South (Routledge, 2018). Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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When citing this work, please include a reference to the DOI 10.1017/9781108567084 First published 2019 Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd, Padstow Cornwall A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Ghiabi, Maziyar, 1986– author. Title: Drugs politics : managing disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Maziyar Ghiabi. Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019001098 | ISBN 9781108475457 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Drug control – Iran. | Drug abuse – Iran. | Drug abuse – Government policy – Iran. 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IP address: 213.205.194.120, on 21 Jun 2019 at 10:36:11, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/E2EFB2A2A59AC5C2D6854BC4C4501558 In memoriam Massimo Riva, javanmard, for his love of living simply ﺑﻮﺩ ﺩﺭﺩ ﻣﻮ ﻭ ﺩﺭﻣﺎﻧﻢ ﺍﺯ ﺩﻭﺳﺖ ﺑﻮﺩ ﻭﺻﻞ ﻣﻮ ﻭ ﻫﺠﺮﺍﻧﻢ ﺍﺯ ﺩﻭﺳﺖ ﺍﮔﺮ ﻗﺼﺎﺑﻢ ﺍﺯ ﺗﻦ ﻭﺍﮐﺮﻩ ﭘﻮﺳﺖ ﺟﺪﺍ ﻫﺮﮔﺰ ﻧﮕﺮﺩﺩ ﺟﺎﻧﻢ ﺍﺯ ﺩﻭﺳﺖ My pain and my cure is from the friend. My closeness and my distance is from the friend. Should the butcher peel off my skin from my body, My soul will never depart from the friend. Baba Taher-e Oryan Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 213.205.194.120, on 21 Jun 2019 at 10:36:11, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/E2EFB2A2A59AC5C2D6854BC4C4501558 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 213.205.194.120, on 21 Jun 2019 at 10:36:11, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/E2EFB2A2A59AC5C2D6854BC4C4501558 Contents Acknowledgements page ix List of Figures xiii List of Tables xv Note on Transliteration xvi Persian Glossary xvii English Glossary xix Prologue 1 ‘Not the King but the Minister ...Not the Law but the Police ...’ 3 1 The Drug Assemblage 16 Part One 33 2 A Genealogy of Drugs Politics: Opiates under the Pahlavi 35 3 Drugs, Revolution, War 71 4 Reformism and Drugs: Formal and Informal Politics of Harm Reduction 98 Interregnum 137 5 Crisis as an Institution: The Expediency Council 139 Part Two 163 6 The Anthropological Mutation of Methamphetamines 165 7 The Art of Managing Disorder 189 8 Drugs and Populism: Ahmadinejad and Grassroots Authoritarianism 232 vii Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 213.205.194.120, on 21 Jun 2019 at 10:36:11, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/E2EFB2A2A59AC5C2D6854BC4C4501558 viii Contents Epilogue 267 Power, Crisis, Drugs 269 Select Bibliography 289 Index 323 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 213.205.194.120, on 21 Jun 2019 at 10:36:11, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/E2EFB2A2A59AC5C2D6854BC4C4501558 Acknowledgements The Wellcome Trust provided the funding for my doctoral research under the Society & Ethics Doctoral Scholarship [Grant no. WT10988MA], which is the basis of this book. It did so within an intellectual framework and academic vision that is rare in today’s funding landscape, especially for works related to Iran and the Middle East, where geopolitical interests overshadow any intellectual curiosity. Without this support, I would have not achieved my degree and this research would have not been written. I am also grateful to the team at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where I spent a beautiful eventful year as a postdoctoral fellow. Their humanistic kindness and intellectual overtures provided a stimulating, open-minded environment which made this book a less painstaking journey. I look forward to collaborating with them in the years ahead. My fieldwork and primary research owes much to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime where I worked as an intern in Summer 2012.
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