Iran’s Environmental Challenges and Movements on the Margins
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Iran’s Environmental Challenges and Movements on the Margins by Allan Hassaniyan
This book shifts the focus of Iran's environmental crises from policy failures and technocratic mismanagement to the lived experiences of those at the periphery: non-Persian national communities, rural populations, farmers and displaced peoples. Drawing on original narratives and critical analysis, it reveals how water scarcity, mega-dams, interbasin water transfers and unsustainable development intersect with long histories of marginalisation, extractive industries and securitised state responses. Allan Hassaniyan highlights how environmental degradation has become a matter of survival for Iran's subalterns, exposing the deeply political dimensions of Iranian ecology. Bridging environmental studies, political ecology and critical area studies, this timely work fills a significant gap in English-language scholarship, as well as spotlighting the unequal and often devastating consequences of the state's environmental crisis for its most vulnerable communities.
Dr Allan Hassaniyan is a Senior Lecturer in Middle East Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Kurdish Politics in Iran Crossborder Interactions and Mobilisation (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Hassaniyan’s current research focuses on state-society relationships in Iran and Kurdistan, environmental movements, ecological security, and challenges in the Middle East. His publications have been featured in different international journals, including Middle Eastern Studies; Conflict Security and Development; and Local Environment, the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781399563260 |
| ISBN 10 | 1399563262 |
| Title | Iran’s Environmental Challenges and Movements on the Margins |
| Author | Allan Hassaniyan |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2026-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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