Chapter
1. (Dis)Locating the State: Order and Power
Anthropology of the state
Producing social order and normalcy
Governmentality and 'dividing practices'
Reading Foucault in Iran: what kind of state?
Biopolitics as a research method
Resistance and reinterpretation
2. The Iranian State and the Reform Movement: Debating Governance
Implementing Islamic theocracy
A crisis of legitimacy: the advent of Khatami's reform front
The Islamic Republic: a contradiction in terms?
Individual rights and Islamic values
Social justice and 'the people': mostazafin
Parallel state institutions and the bonyads
'The people': pluralism and participation
Women, youth and changing notions of authority
3. Countering the Discourse of Dialogue: NGOs and the State of Ahmadinezhad
Moralized margins of the state
The concept of civil society
NGOs: the impact of a social movement
The election of Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad
'Time for a cultural war'
Ahmadinezhad's 'Mosque model'
National security and the US pressure
'In the Name of Democracy'
NGOs walking on a tightrope
Media critique: NGOs as 'guards of security'
Conservative cleavages: lack of expertise
4. Changing Drug Policies: Institutionalizing a New Social Order
Iran's history of drug use
The dual strategy of Pahlavi Shahs
A new revolutionary order
Outlawing the political opposition
A treatment-oriented policy: a new social order
The threat of an HIV/AIDS epidemic
From coercive methods to expertise
Debating vulnerability: prostitution and drug use
The sacred social categories
Treatment as Islamic duty
Rounding up 'dangerous addicts'
Conflicts and compromises
5. Negotiating Normalcy: NGOs Treating Drug Users
The mediating role of NGOs
Interfaces between the state and NGOs
Persepolis Harm Reduction NGOs
The parks: reclaiming the liminal, urban space
Street life: markers of marginality
Facing the state: fighting the police
Parti bazi, playing with connections
Extending the tentacles of the state
The role of the family: a private clinic
Narcotics Anonymous: seeking 'cultural' solutions
Participation, gender and equality
Negotiating normalcy, reclaiming rights
6. Shooting Drugs: Re-Imagining the 'moral public'
The moral character of Iranian cinema
Political dualities: who is the state?
Makhmalbaf: attacking the sacred categories
Bani-Etemad: family under fire
'Under the Skin of the City'
A lost generation shooting up
Resistance and re-imagination
Conclusion: What is 'Reform'?
A state of contradictions
The moralized margins of the state
Postscript: The 2009 Election
The radicalized rules of the game
Lost legitimacy: neither Islamic, nor Republic
Revolution, resistance, rights?
'A raging fire under a heap of ash'
Drugs, Deviancy and Democracy in Iran
：The Interaction of State and Civil Society
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