1st Edition
Affective Experiences of Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran Spatiality, Religion, and Body
By Behnaz Ghazi Moradi
Copyright 2027
256 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book focuses on the affective experiences of women in contemporary Iran, exploring how they feel and inhabit urban space in a post-revolutionary society. It acknowledges the presence and influence of religion in everyday life when considering how places are experienced and remembered. Drawing on the work of Hartmut Rosa, the book conceptualizes the body as a ‘resonant medium’ – one that is... Read more
Prelude Introduction 1. Methodological Consideration 2. War Debris: Constructing and Contesting Childhood Memory 3. Affective Spaces: Isfahan, Silence and Eternity 4. Seeing Unseen: Worshiping through Naqsh va Nigār 5. A Musical Mind: Echoes of Sacred ‘In’ and ‘Out’ Aural Space 6. Micro-Spatiality and the Veiled Body Epilogue Persian Glossary Webography Index.
Biography
Behnaz Ghazi Moradi holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Graz, Austria. She has been a lecturer at the University of Göttingen and an associate researcher at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany.
