Social Movements Lab #8: Woman, Life and Freedom in Iran

You are watching the Social Movements Lab hosted by Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra. To kick off the new season, Michael and Sandro speak with Paola Rivetti and Frieda Afary, navigating the social crises in Iran undergirding the upheaval known as the Woman, Life, Freedom struggle.

Paola Rivetti is an associate professor at Dublin City University. She is the author of Political participation in Iran from Khatami to the Green Movement (2020) and co-editor of Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention (2018) and Continuity and change before and after the Arab uprisings: Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt (2015). She is Associate editor of Iranian Studies journal. Longer profile: https://www.dcu.ie/lawandgovernment/people/paola-rivetti 


Frieda Afary, Philosophy M.A., is an Iranian American public librarian, translator, writer, activist, and author of Socialist Feminism: A New Approach (Pluto Press, 2022 , https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347738/socialist-feminism/). She is also the producer of Iranian Progressives in Translation (https://iranianprogressives.org/) and socialistfeminism.org (https://socialistfeminism.org/)

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