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Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2022

Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi
Affiliation:
University of Tehran, Iran
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Aiming to highlight the agency of ordinary people in Tehran’s transformation, I mostly scrutinized the shifts in two seemingly independent but inherently interconnected socio-spatial relationships: the spatiality of social life and social movements. Throughout the main storyline of this book, I illustrated that the transformations of these two relationships shared four common characteristics. First, there is an apparent departure from communal to class-based identities. As I discussed in Chapter 1, the social spaces of nineteenth-century Tehran were the outcome of the shared communal identity of their users; people’s communal ties colored coffeehouses, bathhouses, takīyyihs, and zūrkhānihs. In the same vein, communal ties played the main role in the formation of political public spaces and the public sphere during the Constitutional Revolution. However, the structural transformation of Iranian urban society resulted in the demise of the communal sphere and the rise of class consciousness based on shared economic and political interests. As Chapter 5 demonstrated, the modern middle class produced the main social spaces of mid-twentieth-century northern Tehran. Chapter 6 illustrated the role of this class alongside the urban working class in the production of political public spaces of the city in the 1940s and the early 1950s.

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A Social History of Modern Tehran
Space, Power, and the City
, pp. 361 - 371
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Conclusion
  • Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Book: A Social History of Modern Tehran
  • Online publication: 22 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009188906.009
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  • Conclusion
  • Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Book: A Social History of Modern Tehran
  • Online publication: 22 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009188906.009
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  • Conclusion
  • Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Book: A Social History of Modern Tehran
  • Online publication: 22 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009188906.009
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