Indeterminate Governmentality: Neoliberal Politics in Revolutionary Iran, 1968-1979
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Arash Davari
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
McClure, Kirstie M.; Sawyer, Mark Q.
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University of California, Los Angeles
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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327
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Behdad, Ali; Dienstag, Joshua F.; Gelvin, James L.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-99776-6
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Political Science
Body granting the degree
University of California, Los Angeles
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2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This dissertation situates the emergence of revolutionary resistance in Pahlavi Iran in parallel with the emergence of neoliberal political rationality in the Middle East. In the process, it theorizes neoliberalism anew. Through an engagement with archives of social practice in Iran and its diaspora between 1968 and 1979, neoliberalism is presented as a political rationality that involves rhetorical disavowal at root - what I refer to as indeterminate governmentality. The study employs parallelism as a theoretical construct reflecting the logic of the revolutionary transformation and periodic shift at hand. The disavowals considered include renderings of a collective on individualist terms; formations of solidarity through empathy; and orientations toward order in the production of disorder. The archival material considered includes state documents; activist records, ephemera, and publications; theoretical texts; literature; popular cinema; periodicals; and ethnographic interviews. In sum, I argue that an event variably labelled Iranian or Islamic may just as well be understood as the first neoliberal revolution.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Comparative literature; Middle Eastern history; Political science; Diaspora; Politics; Empathy; Films; Asian studies; Disorders; Logic
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
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Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Iran;Neoliberalism;Revolution