02257    a2200361   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001500136072001500151072001300166072001500179072001600194072001600210072001300226072001500239072001500254072001300269072001600282072002100298072002100319072001800340100001700358245007500375250000600450260003200456300001000488520138200498999001501880113895297420250317100413.0250312042015GB                   eng    a9781138952973  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 49.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aGTM2thema7 aNHG2thema7 aN2thema7 aJPS2thema7 a1FBN2bisac7 a3MPQ2bisac7 aGTB2bic7 aHBJF12bic7 aHBLW32bic7 aJPS2bic7 a1FBN2bisac7 aHIS0260002bisac7 aSOC0530002bisac7 a955.052bisac1 aKamran Matin10aRecasting Iranian ModernitybInternational Relations and Social Change  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20150723  a208 p  bCritically deploying the idea of uneven and combined development this book provides a novel non-Eurocentric account of Iran’s experience of modernity and revolution. Recasting Iranian Modernity presents the argument that Eurocentrism can be decisively overcome through a social theory that has international relations at its ontological core. This will enable a conception of history in which there is an intrinsic international dimension to social change that prevents historical repetition. This hitherto under-theorized international dimension is, the book argues, manifest in combined patterns of development, which incorporate both foreign and native forms. It is the tension-prone and unstable nature of these hybrid developmental patterns that mark Iranian modernity, and fuelled the socio-political dynamics of the 1979 revolution and the rise of political Islam. Challenging solely comparative approaches to the Iranian Revolution that explain it away as either a deviation from, or a reaction to, modernity on the grounds of its religious form, this book will be valuable to those interested in an alternative theoretical approach to the Iranian Revolution, modern Iran and political Islam, working in the fields of International Relations, Middle East and Islamic Studies, History, Political Science, Political Sociology, Postcolonialism, and Comparative Politics.  c2546d2546