Governmental Islamic Patriarchy and the Gendered City: The Re-making of Iranian Public Spaces under the 21st Century Islamic Republic
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ucin15735759589865072021-12-16T05:34:01Z Governmental Islamic Patriarchy and the Gendered City: The Re-making of Iranian Public Spaces under the 21st Century Islamic Republic Zarabadi, Seyedeh Ladan Architecture Gendered City Public Space Islamic Patriarchy Spatial Justice Urban Militarization This dissertation is an interdisciplinary project that examines the politics of public urban spaces in twenty-first century Iran from a feminist perspective. “Public urban spaces,” in this dissertation, refers to places that are open and accessible to all city dwellers regardless of their race, gender, ethnicity, age, or belief system. Such urban spaces include city squares, parks, streets, and beaches. The focus of this dissertation is on city streets and women-only parks as a certain type of urban park. The political structure of Iran changed from a monarchy to an Islamic Republic in 1979. After the Islamic Revolution, the government of Iran attempted to Islamize the society by applying Islamic principles to both the public and private lives of its people. The foundation of this political system is predominantly dictated by Shi’i Islamic values. The application of these principles has had a great impact on Iranian social life, public institutions, and urban policies. Through a dialectical analysis between urban space, gender, and state policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, I use theories of space, power, and justice to expound how public urban spaces are produced and experienced in Iran. Using two categories of Lefebvre’s triad classification of space, I divide my dissertation into two major parts: representation of space, in which I analyze production of space through signs and symbols; and representational space, in which I investigate segregated public spaces as lived spaces. In the first section, I focus on environmental advertisements, urban billboards, posters, and banners, and in the second section, I analyze women-only parks as a typology of Islamic public spaces. This research is a thematic project involving representation of Islamic spaces as well as production of Islamic lived spaces, focusing on, but not limited to, Tehran. Drawing upon the theories of Henri Lefebvre, Edward Soja, and Michel Foucault, I argue that the production of (urban) public spaces under Islamic principles follows a pattern that results in social and spatial injustice and reinforces gender inequalities, even if the Islamic Republic has changed its policies over time due to social forces or political expediency. Building on the work of feminist theorists such as Elizabeth Grosz, I demonstrate how the Islamic Republic employs patriarchal principles to produce public spaces. I situate Lefebvre’s concept of the “right to the city” within this feminist discourse in order to theorize a “women’s right to the city,” and I analyze this concept in an Islamic context. In addition to archival materials and online news outlets, I collected my data through observing the public pages of social media (especially Facebook and Instagram) of Iranian independent journalists and feminist activists to find firsthand photos and videos filmed directly by Iranian citizens inside Iran. I consider such observations my virtual fieldwork and use digital resources in my data collection as well as in my analyses. In this dissertation, I conducted my field work via social media. 2019 English text University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1573575958986507 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1573575958986507 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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Governmental Islamic Patriarchy and the Gendered City: The Re-making of Iranian Public Spaces under the 21st Century Islamic Republic |
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Governmental Islamic Patriarchy and the Gendered City: The Re-making of Iranian Public Spaces under the 21st Century Islamic Republic |
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Governmental Islamic Patriarchy and the Gendered City: The Re-making of Iranian Public Spaces under the 21st Century Islamic Republic |
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Governmental Islamic Patriarchy and the Gendered City: The Re-making of Iranian Public Spaces under the 21st Century Islamic Republic |
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Governmental Islamic Patriarchy and the Gendered City: The Re-making of Iranian Public Spaces under the 21st Century Islamic Republic |
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governmental islamic patriarchy and the gendered city: the re-making of iranian public spaces under the 21st century islamic republic |
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