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The Iranian Green Movement: Fragmented Collective Action and Fragile Collective Identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Arash Reisinezhad
Arash Reisinezhad*
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Middle East Studies Center, Florida International University
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Abstract

The Iranian Green Movement emerged after the presidential election in June 2009. The paper tracks down its foundational origins through the concept of ‘fragmented collective action’, that points to the dispersion of a social movement's political energies and the fragmentation of its constitutive groups. It also addresses the significance of informal mobilizing networks and the widespread use of modern virtual space to bring together an intersubjectively constructed collective identity which was shaped by the movement’s interactions with political forces and with its interlocutors. Finally, the paper argues that the collective identity shaped the movement's strategies over the course of its evolution.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , March 2015 , pp. 193 - 222
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Copyright © 2014 The International Society for Iranian Studies

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