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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 infrastructure­­roads, electricity, running water, garbage collection, and... read more

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Between 1976 and the early 1990s a series of popular activities took place in Iran's large cities that did not receive sufficient attention from scholars, primarily because they were drowned out by the extraordinary big bang of the revolution.

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  1. Asef Bayat (Author)

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  1. sociology of iran 
 

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