TY - BOOK ID - 7197323 TI - Young and defiant in Tehran. PY - 2008 SN - 9780812240399 9780812220681 0812240391 0812220684 PB - Philadelphia (Pa.) University of Pennsylvania Press DB - UniCat KW - Youth KW - Ethnology KW - Popular culture KW - Islam and politics KW - Islam and culture KW - Group identity KW - Political aspects KW - Tehran (Iran) KW - Social life and customs KW - #SBIB:39A77 KW - Collective identity KW - Community identity KW - Cultural identity KW - Social identity KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Social psychology KW - Collective memory KW - Culture and Islam KW - Culture KW - Islamic civilization KW - Islam KW - Politics and Islam KW - Political science KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Young people KW - Young persons KW - Youngsters KW - Youths KW - Age groups KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Communication KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten KW - Social life and customs. KW - Teheran (Iran) KW - Tihrān (Iran) KW - Te-hei-lan (Iran) KW - Baladīyah-i Ṭihrān (Iran) KW - Shahrdārī-i Tihrān (Iran) KW - Teheran KW - تهران (Iran) KW - Дыхьэрэн (Iran) KW - Dykhʹėrėn (Iran) KW - طهران (Iran) KW - Горад Тэгеран (Iran) KW - Horad Tėheran (Iran) KW - Тэгеран (Iran) KW - Техеран (Iran) KW - Tekheran (Iran) KW - Тегеран (Iran) KW - Tegeran (Iran) KW - Τεχεράνη (Iran) KW - Techeranē (Iran) KW - Teherano (Iran) KW - 테헤란 (Iran) KW - Тæхран (Iran) KW - Tækhran (Iran) KW - טהראן (Iran) KW - Тегьран (Iran) KW - Tegʹran (Iran) KW - Teheranum (Iran) KW - Teherāna (Iran) KW - Teheranas (Iran) KW - テヘラン (Iran) KW - Tekhḣeran (Iran) KW - Tehron (Iran) KW - Teerã (Iran) KW - Teerão (Iran) KW - Teherani (Iran) KW - Tahraan (Iran) KW - Tăḣran (Iran) KW - טעהראן (Iran) KW - Teherans (Iran) KW - 德黑兰 (Iran) KW - Deheilan (Iran) KW - Youth - Iran - Tehran KW - Ethnology - Iran - Tehran KW - Popular culture - Iran - Tehran KW - Islam and politics - Iran - Tehran KW - Islam and culture - Iran - Tehran KW - Group identity - Political aspects - Iran - Tehran KW - Tehran (Iran) - Social life and customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7197323 AB - 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, Westernized consumers who constitute a threat to the society. Much of the focus of the Islamic regime has been on ways to protect Iranian young people from moral hazards and to prevent them from providing a gateway for cultural invasion from the West. Iranian authorities express their anxieties through campaigns that target the young generation and its lifestyle and have led to the criminalization of many of the behaviors that make up youth culture. In this ethnography of contemporary youth culture in Iran's capital, Shahram Khosravi examines how young Tehranis struggle for identity in the battle over the right to self-expression. Khosravi looks closely at the strictures confronting Iranian youth and the ways transnational cultural influences penetrate and flourish.Focusing on gathering places such as shopping centers and coffee shops, Khosravi examines the practices of everyday life through which young Tehranis demonstrate defiance against the official culture and parental dominance. In addition to being sites of opposition, Khosravi argues, these alternative spaces serve as creative centers for expression and, above all, imagination. His analysis reveals the transformative power these spaces have and how they enable young Iranians to develop their own culture as well as individual and generational identities. The text is enriched by examples from literature and cinema and by livid reports from the author's fieldwork. ER -