CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Salehi, Maryam |
|---|---|
| Title | I wanted to have a "normal" life: Resistance and Alcohol Production in Iran |
| Summary | This thesis takes alcohol production in the context of post-revolutionary Iran as a heuristic to enquire into the ways people in Iran have dealt with the invasive power of the state. The state in Iran, due to its aim to create an Islamic and “pious society” had imposed a wide variety of moral codes forcibly to the society. As the state aimed at correlative spaces of public and private, it used to probe into private spaces of people’s lives. I argue that groups of people in Iran questioned this state-imposed complementary of public and private spaces. In order to challenge this, people employed practices that can be thought of as “resistance”. Foucault’s articulation of “dialectics of power and resistance” and Abu-Lughod’s articulation of resistance “as diagnosis of power” were my sources of inspiration. For doing this research I had five interviews and had some participant observation during one month of fieldwork in Iran through which I tried to scrutinize their creative practices of the aforementioned group of the people. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar; Markkula, Johanna |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/salehi_maryam.pdf |
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