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Land Is Life: The Prolonged Dispossession of Turkmens
From: For Land and Culture
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In this chapter, Vahabzadeh traces the prolonged dispossession of Turkmen peoples in northwestern Iran, from their Central Asian origins through Pahlavi-era land appropriation to the 1979 Turkmen Council Movement.
Contributors
Peyman Vahabzadeh
Peyman Vahabzadeh is a professor of sociology at the University of Victoria. He is the author of several books, including The Art of Defiance: Dissident Culture and Militant Resistance in 1970s Iran; Violence and Nonviolence: Conceptual Excursions into Phantom Opposites; and A Rebel’s Journey: Mostafa Sho‘aiyan and Revolutionary Theory in Iran. He is also editor of Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice: Economics, Agency, Justice, Activism and co-editor, with Samir Gandesha, of Crossing Borders: Essays in Honour of Ian Angus. He has published nine books of poetry, fiction, literary criticism and memoir in Persian and his works have appeared in English, Persian, German, Kurdish, French and Spanish.
