Young and Defiant in Tehran

Young and Defiant in Tehran
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With more than half its population under twenty years old, Iran is one of the world's most youthful nations. The Iranian state characterizes its youth population in two ways: as a homogeneous mass, «an army of twenty millions» devoted to the Revolution, and as alienated, inauthentic, Westernized consumers who constitute a threat to the society. Much of the focus of the Islamic regime has been on ways to protect Iranian young people from moral hazards and to prevent them from providing a gateway for cultural invasion from the West. Iranian authorities express their anxieties through campaigns that target the young generation and its lifestyle and have led to the criminalization of many of the behaviors that make up youth culture. In this ethnography of contemporary youth culture in Iran's capital, Shahram Khosravi examines how young Tehranis struggle for identity in the battle over the right to self-expression. Khosravi looks closely at the strictures confronting Iranian youth and the ways transnational cultural influences penetrate and flourish. Focusing on gathering places such as shopping centers and coffee shops, Khosravi examines the practices of everyday life through which young Tehranis demonstrate defiance against the official culture and parental dominance. In addition to being sites of opposition, Khosravi argues, these alternative spaces serve as creative centers for expression and, above all, imagination. His analysis reveals the transformative power these spaces have and how they enable young Iranians to develop their own culture as well as individual and generational identities. The text is enriched by examples from literature and cinema and by livid reports from the author's fieldwork.

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Shahram Khosravi. Young and Defiant in Tehran

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Young and Defiant in Tehran

Kirin Narayan and Paul Stoller, Series Editors

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Pastoral power is a supplement to discipline-oriented power. It is imposed not only by states or religious institutions but also by parents and teachers. It concerns the care of young people: the moralization of their bodies, welfare, and salvation. This is best expressed by a former member of the Supreme Judicial Council, Ayatollah Bojnourdi, who declared that “Penalty in Islam is correction rather than punishment.”23 While disciplining attempts to achieve normalization by drilling individuals, salvation-oriented tutelage does it by engaging in dialogue. In his study of torture in modern Iran, Rejali observes,

Individuals are treated not as objects that require training, but as subjects of questioning and guidance. Tutelage alters self-understanding and so behavior. In this respect, it assumes that individuals possess within themselves a deeper self that is realized through speech. In practicing tutelary techniques, individuals realize themselves as normal members of a moral speech community. (Rejali 1994: 84)

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