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SPRING 2010 CATALOG
A Guerrilla Odyssey
Modernization, Secularism, Democracy, and the Fadai Period
of National Liberation in Iran, 1971–1979
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Peyman Vahabzadeh
Cloth $29.95s
| 978-0-8156-3243-6
| 2010
Description
Emerging in the early 1970s, the Organization of Iranian People’s Fadai
Guerrillas (OIPFG) became one of the most important secular leftist political
organizations in Iran. Despite their lasting influence and the way in
which their efforts helped shape the history of Iran for decades to come,
little is known about the group. A Guerrilla Odyssey presents the first
comprehensive examination of the rise and fall of the Fadai urban guerrilla
movement in Iran.
Drawing on exhaustive analyses of the published and unpublished
works of the Fadai Guerrillas, as well as of archival material and
interviews with activists, the author demonstrates historically and
sociologically the conditions that surrounded the debut and demise of the
urban guerrilla warfare that defined Iranian political life in the 1970s.
Vahabzadeh offers a critique of various aspects of the Fadai’s theories
of national liberation in an attempt to reconsider the painful relationship
among modernization, secularism, and democracy in contemporary
Iran. In addition, the author makes a compelling case explaining why
older revolutionary social movements of the 1960s and 1970s have
transformed into the new democratic social movements that emerged from
the 1980s onward in the form of today’s women’s, student, and youth
movements in Iran. A Guerilla Odyssey is a meticulously researched and
engrossing narrative that promises to be a major contribution to the field
of Iranian history.
View other books in the series Modern Intellectual and Political History of
the Middle East
Author
Peyman Vahabzadeh is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology
at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of
Articulated Experience: Toward a Radical Phenomenology of Contemporary
Social Movements.
6 x 9, 272 pages, 9 black-and-white illustrations, 5 tables, appendix, notes, references, index
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