Young and defiant in Tehran /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khosravi, Shahram
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : Bristol : University of Pennsylvania Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor] 2008.
Series:Contemporary ethnography.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhm9h
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Cultural crimes
  • The aesthetics of authority
  • A dissident neighborhood
  • A passage to modernity : Golestan
  • The third generation
  • Culture of defiance
  • Conclusion.