Space, Culture, and the Youth in Iran: Observing Norm Creation Processes at the Artists’ House

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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.


About the Author


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.