Tied Up in Tehran - Women, Social Change, Politics of Daily Life in Postrevolutionary

Tied Up in Tehran offers a richly interdisciplinary study of ordinary life in Iran since the 1979 revolution and a critical intervention in political theory debates on knowledge and method. Drawing from over ten years of field work in Iran since the 1990s, and originating in the author's surreal experience of being served tangerines during a home invasion in Tehran, Norma Claire Moruzzi examines the experiences of women, young people, artists, and activists: at home, at work, and in the street. These stories - of food and family, film and politics, shopping and crime-reckon with the past, demonstrate resilient democratization in the present, and provide glimpses of a plausible future while offering a refreshing model to ethically engaged modes of study. Moruzzi's lucid and engaging writing explores Iranian daily life as unexpected, contradictory, and full of political promise.

Product details

• Authors: Norma Claire Moruzzi, Norma Claire (University of Illinois Moruzzi, Moruzzi Norma Claire
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009540247
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0954024-7
• No. of pages: 379
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Iran, Cultural Studies, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, HISTORY / Middle East / Iran, Middle Eastern history, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women and girls, Political ideologies and movements, Cultural policies and debates