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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2022

Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi
Affiliation:
University of Tehran, Iran
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This book is about an ontological shift in the conceptualization and representation of the spatiality of Tehran, the capital of Iran, as the outcome of the formation and establishment of a novel spatial discourse. Between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries, this novel discourse sidelined the indigenous knowledge of Iranian urban society and the state and became the legitimate sources of imagining and producing the spatiality of Iranian cities. It transformed the spaces of the social, political, and economic processes in Tehran and elsewhere in the country. This shift was ontological and spatial, meaning that it brought about novel frameworks for urban society and the state to produce the spaces of their daily practices and strategies. This shift was discursive, leading to the abandonment of the traditional and indigenous spatial understanding in a long process of knowledge production; society and the state internalized a novel form of knowledge as the authentic source of producing the spatiality of social, economic, and political relations. This shift targeted both the state and society; it was top-down and bottom-up simultaneously. As the book suggests, since the mid-nineteenth century, this new spatial discourse has reproduced Tehran; the contours of the current city should be read through the analysis of this discursive transformation.

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A Social History of Modern Tehran
Space, Power, and the City
, pp. 1 - 12
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Introduction
  • Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Book: A Social History of Modern Tehran
  • Online publication: 22 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009188906.002
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  • Introduction
  • Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Book: A Social History of Modern Tehran
  • Online publication: 22 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009188906.002
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  • Introduction
  • Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Book: A Social History of Modern Tehran
  • Online publication: 22 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009188906.002
Available formats
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