Coming of Age in Iran

Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity

Coming of Age in Iran
Manata Hashemi
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h229 x 152mm - 256pg
29 May 2020 US
9781479881949
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An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis Crippling sanctions, inflation, and unemployment have increasingly burdened young people in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In Coming of Age in Iran, Manata Hashemi takes us inside the lives of poor Iranian youth, showing how these young men and women face their future prospects. Drawing on first-hand accounts, Hashemi follows their stories, one by one, as they struggle to climb up the proverbial ladder of success. Based on years of ethnographic research among these youth in their homes, workspaces, and places of leisure, Hashemi shows how public judgments can give rise to meaningful changes for some while making it harder for others to escape poverty. Ultimately, Hashemi sheds light on the pressures these young men and women face, showing how many choose to comply with-rather than resist-social norms in their pursuit of status and belonging. Coming of Age in Iran tells the unprecedented story of how Iran' s young and struggling attempt to extend dignity and alleviate misery, illuminating the promises-and limits-of finding one' s place during a time of profound uncertainty.
Manata Hashemi' s Coming of Age in Iran is a fascinating and timely study of working class youth negotiating the difficult conditions of their work, status, and self-respect. Hashemi combines a keen attention to gender and class as well as to the details of local and regional identity, in Tehran and beyond. Understanding themselves as modern individuals who must make their way in a world of limited economic opportunities, dilute religiosity, and faded revolutionary dreams, Hashemi shows how these young men and women save face and find dignity, publicly performing community norms of accommodation while privately searching for the elusive goal of individual opportunity. -- Norma Claire Moruzzi, author of Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity What does it mean to be young, poor, and aspirational in Iran? In this rich ethnography, Manata Hashemi answers by describing how young people ' perform' upward mobility, convey moral virtue and largely obey dominant social and cultural norms. This nuanced book offers a different picture of Iranian youth: conformists rather than rebels, they are intent on maintaining their dignity as they negotiate their precarious circumstances. -- Diane Singerman, author of Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
Manata Hashemi is the Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Oklahoma and the co-editor of Children in Crisis: Ethnographic Studies in International Contexts.
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ISBN-13: 9781479881949
Published: 29 May 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: New York University Press
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 256

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