Urban and Visual Culture in Contemporary Iran

Non-visibility and the Politics of Everyday Presence

Pedram Dibazar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-24325-5 (ISBN)

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In Urban and Visual Culture in Contemporary Iran, Pedram Dibazar argues that everyday life in Iran is a rich domain of social existence and cultural production. Regular patterns of day-to-day practice in Iran are imbued with forms of expressivity that are unmarked and inconspicuous, but have remarkable critical value for a cultural study of contemporary society. Blended into the rhythms of everyday life are nonconformist modes of presence, subtle in their visibility and non-confrontational in their resistance to the established societal norms and structures. This volume is about such everyday tactics and creativity as lived in space, visualised in cultural forms and communicated through media.

Through its analysis of familiar everyday experiences, Urban and Visual Culture in Contemporary Iran covers a wide range of ordinary practices—such as walking, driving, shopping and doing or watching sports—and spatial conditions—such as streets, cars, rooftops, shopping centres and stadiums. It also explores a variety of cultural formations, including film, photography, architecture, literature, visual arts, television and digital media. This book offers new ways of thinking about visual and urban cultures by highlighting a politics of everyday life that is conditioned on concerns over visibility and presence.

Pedram Dibazar is a lecturer in the Humanities at Amsterdam University College and a researcher at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

List of Plates
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1 STREETS
Capturing the non-visibility of everyday presence
Urban emptiness
Absent presence
An orientation towards the everyday

2 CARS
Inhabiting the everyday, enacting an embodied cinema of mobility
On the move: Abbas Kiarostami’s wandering cars and extended
presence
Dwelling in mobility
Mobilizing the look
An embodied cinema of everyday interaction
Conclusion

3 ROOFTOPS
The invisibility and ambiguity of leftover space
Rooftops and the everyday city
Rooftops of Iran: Memoirs and popular culture
On leftover space
Urban rooftops in Iran: The ambivalence of leftover space
Rooftop protests: The everyday practice of shouting from rooftops
Conclusion

4 SHOPPING CENTRES
The ambivalence of the scopic regime of the stroll
Ambiguities of the shopping centre
The scopic regimes of shopping
Going for a walk in the shopping centre
Conclusion

5 SPORTS
The unrelenting visibility of wayward bodies
Sports and everyday life in Iran: A short history
Geographies and visualities of sport
The hypervisibility of television sports
The spectral community of television sports spectators
Conclusion

Conclusion

Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2022
Zusatzinfo	8 colour and 32 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-350-24325-6 / 1350243256
ISBN-13	978-1-350-24325-5 / 9781350243255
Zustand	Neuware