War of Clubs: Struggle for Space in Abadan and the 1946 Oil Strike
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War of Clubs: Struggle for Space in Abadan and the 1946 Oil Strike. / Elling, Rasmus Christian.
Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East. ed. / Nelida Fuccaro. Stanford University Press, 2016. p. 189-210.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - War of Clubs: Struggle for Space in Abadan and the 1946 Oil Strike
AU - Elling, Rasmus Christian
PY - 2016/3/8
Y1 - 2016/3/8
N2 - This chapter challenges simplistic representations of the intercommunal violence that took place during the 1946 oil strike in Abadan, in the Iranian province of Khuzestan, as rooted either in primordial ethnic hatred or in an imperialist plot. The chapter reconstructs in detail several days of tensions and clashes, and places them within a historical context of coercive industrial urban development, labor activism, ethnic mobilization and global politics. Using oil company records, national archives and personal accounts, the focus of the analysis is the socio-spatial unit of the club as a place for socialization, a site of strife in the life of an oil city, and as a key political space with significance in the evolution of the modern Iranian nation state.
AB - This chapter challenges simplistic representations of the intercommunal violence that took place during the 1946 oil strike in Abadan, in the Iranian province of Khuzestan, as rooted either in primordial ethnic hatred or in an imperialist plot. The chapter reconstructs in detail several days of tensions and clashes, and places them within a historical context of coercive industrial urban development, labor activism, ethnic mobilization and global politics. Using oil company records, national archives and personal accounts, the focus of the analysis is the socio-spatial unit of the club as a place for socialization, a site of strife in the life of an oil city, and as a key political space with significance in the evolution of the modern Iranian nation state.
UR - http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24893&bottom_ref=subject
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780804795845
SN - 9780804797528
SP - 189
EP - 210
BT - Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East
A2 - Fuccaro, Nelida
PB - Stanford University Press
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