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Street Politics

By Asef Bayat

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0231108583, 9780231108584
LCC
HV4132.56.A5 B39 1997
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20299880 bytes)
Pages
273\273
DPI
600
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, an active political movement emerged on the streets of Iran's largest cities. Poor people began to construct their own communities on unused urban lands, creating an infrastructure----roads, electricity, running water, garbage collection, and shelters----all their own. As the Iranian government attempted to evict these illegal settlers, they resisted----fiercely and ultimately successfully. This is the story of their economic and political strategies.

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