This book analyzes the Artists' House, a cultural center in Tehran, to place Iran's social and cultural transformation in a local-global context. The text addresses the interaction of Iranian youth with technology and mass communications, law, tradition, and contemporary questions concerning body, identity, and lifestyle.

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Behnoosh Payvar is Researcher and Lecturer at the Lund University Internet Institute, Sweden. She lived in Tehran until 2003, where she studied and worked in the fields of communication studies, linguistics, and arts.

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Book Title: Space, Culture, and the Youth in Iran
Book Subtitle: Observing Norm Creation Processes at the Artists’ House
Authors: Behnoosh Payvar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137525703
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53715-7Published: 02 September 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52570-3Published: 29 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIX, 190
Topics: Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Middle Eastern Culture, Sociology of Culture, Youth Culture, Social Philosophy, Cultural Anthropology

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

Front Matter

Artists’ House

Interacting Wide: Discussing the Background—What Is Interacting Outside the Space?

Reflections

Back Matter

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