Movement Structure in an Authoritarian Regime: A Network Analysis of the Women’s and Student Movements in Iran

Assoudeh, Eliot; Salazar, Debra J.

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“…However, while they understandably describe the Islamic Republic as a system impenetrable to political participation, history clearly indicates just how crucial political participation actually was to the origin of the 2 While their work predates the Green Movement, Eliot Assoudeh and Debra J. Salazar reach similar conclusions in their longitudinal analysis (1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008) of the student and women's movements in Iran, which have progressively become more independent of the reformist elite in spite of their earlier association. This suggests that the shift towards radicalisation was already taking place before 2009 (Assoudeh and Salazar 2017), as I also discuss in Chaps. 4 and 5.…”

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Reformism and Political Participation in Iran

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2019

Political Participation in Iran From Khatami to the Green Movement

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Kaveh and Mohammad, activists from Tehran in their late thirties, do not know each other but have a number of friends in common. Both were active in Mir Hoseyn Musavi's electoral campaign in 2009 in Tehran and, after protests erupted in June 2009 upon the announcement of the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of the Republic, both became very active in attending, organising, and participating in the protests that came to be known as the Green Movement. 1 Kaveh and Mohammad enjoyed a certain degree of popularity within activist circles, because they had already been politically active as university students. They had a network they could mobilise and indirect access to other social circles outside Tehran. The marches, demonstrations, and sit-ins lasted into 2010, and were met with increasing state violence. In 2010, both left for Turkey where they became asylum seekers and where I met them in 2011 and 2012. Kaveh and Mohammad's words reflected the excitement and enthusiasm that characterised the days of the mobilisation in the

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Reformism and Political Participation in Iran

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Hashtag activism: tactical maneuvering in an online anti-mandatory hijab movement

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Heydari

2022

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Movement For Justice In Africa And State Transformation In Liberia

Kieh

2023

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Historically, social movements have designed and implemented various modalities for the transformation of the state. Some of these modalities have contributed to the various state transformation projects, while others have not. Overall, state transformation projects have had various outcomes, including success, failure and a mixture of successes and failures. Against this backdrop, this article examines the state transformation project that was undertaken by the Movement for Justice in Africa (moja0 in Liberia from 1973–1980. Specifically, the article interrogates the various modalities that moja designed and implemented in its quest to transform the Liberian society. In terms of a “balance sheet,” some of the modalities, including the political conscientization campaign, the training of cadres, the assistance to labor movements, and coalition building with other progressive forces succeeded in promoting the state transformation project. On the other hand, however, moja did not succeed in transforming state structures, state policies, and power relations. Two major factors contributed to these challenges: 1) moja’s left-wing populist ideology was an obstacle to the organization’s diagnosis of the major causes of the multidimensional crises of underdevelopment that enveloped Liberia; and 2) moja prematurely embraced the Doe-led military regime that came to power after the April 12, 1980 coup, thereby jeopardizing the future of the organization.

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Movement Structure in an Authoritarian Regime: A Network Analysis of the Women’s and Student Movements in Iran

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Reformism and Political Participation in Iran

Reformism and Political Participation in Iran

Hashtag activism: tactical maneuvering in an online anti-mandatory hijab movement

Movement For Justice In Africa And State Transformation In Liberia

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