عنوان

From mosques and coffeehouses to squares and cafés: The production and transformation of political public spaces and social life in modern Tehram

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TL48932

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

From mosques and coffeehouses to squares and cafés: The production and transformation of political public spaces and social life in modern Tehram

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Jordan, Jennifer

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

418

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Committee members: Marashi, Afshin; Seligman, Amanda; Sen, Arijit; Sziarto, Kristin

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-15458-0

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Urban Studies

Body granting the degree

The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

Why did the spaces of protest in Tehran, the capital of Iran, shift from sacred spaces of the city, two mosques and a holy shrine during the 1905 and 1906 Constitutional Revolution, to the streets and squares of the northern city in the 1940s and the early 1950s? Through extensive archival research in Iran, including examination of old Iranian periodicals, memoirs, travelogues, maps, and the like, I found that this spatial transformation was the tip of an iceberg; it was closely related to the transformations of urban society, social life, and social spaces in Tehran that had been brewing for decades. Nineteenth-century Iranian urban society was largely a classless society; it consisted of numerous smaller communities. Social life and the social spaces of Tehran -takīyyihs, zūrkhānihs , mosques, bathhouses, and coffeehouses -were highly shaped by communal identities. In this context, the main sacred spaces of the city were the only sites that could transcend communal diversities and brought people together for a common political cause. However, Iranian urban society underwent massive transformations during the first half of the twentieth century. Two new urban classes, the modern middle and the urban working classes, developed in Iranian cities, particularly Tehran, which were free from the bonds of communal life. The city's social spaces and social life transformed alongside urban society. A new spatial discourse that was incubated in Iranian society for a century became the main force transforming Iranian cities, particularly Tehran. Moreover, new types of social spaces after European models -cinemas, theaters, cafés, restaurants, and sport clubs -became the centers of social life for the modern middle class. This class became the main political social force in the city. It rejected traditional and religious spaces and defined a new way of life for itself. In this context, the newly built network of streets and squares of the northern section of Tehran substituted the sacred spaces of the city as the primary political public spaces.

Middle Eastern history; Middle Eastern Studies; Political science; Social structure

Subject Term

Social sciences;Communal sphere;Iran;Political public space;Public sphere;Social movement;Tehran

Salamati, Hossein

Jordan, Jennifer

Subdivision

Urban Studies

The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Call Number

1826320968; 10160551

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[Thesis]

276903

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