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The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultural, political, and economic influences. Second, the layered, unfinished city spaces we inhabit and within which we create meaning
In: Iranian studies, p. 1-3
ISSN: 1475-4819
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In: Forthcoming, Oñati Socio-Legal Series. Link: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1029
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In: International journal of urban and regional research, Volume 42, Issue 4, p. 746-747
ISSN: 1468-2427
In: The Washington quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 3, p. 41-61
ISSN: 1530-9177
In: Social change, Volume 48, Issue 1, p. 1-17
ISSN: 0976-3538
In both Iran and India, many social and cultural obstacles to authentic and humane social development are often traced to complexities caused by an encounter with Western modernity. In this essay, I explore what the Iranian reception of modernity might gain from the Indian conversation on Hind Swaraj. I show that Gandhi's thought contains two different critiques of modernity. The first radical option entails the rejection of modernity and its core institutions such as the nation-state; the second proposes adapting traditions, including religions, within the framework of a pluralistic democracy so as to craft alternative versions of the nation-state. The objective of the essay is to examine those aspects of the latter strand of Gandhi's thought that may be compatible with Iranian realities. A further goal is to put Iranian and Indian voices together in a constructive dialogue with one another.
In: The Washington quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 3, p. 41-61
ISSN: 0163-660X, 0147-1465
World Affairs Online
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Volume 33, Issue 4, p. 1082-1083
ISSN: 1468-2427
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Volume 33, Issue 4, p. 885-890
ISSN: 0309-1317
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Volume 27, Issue 4, p. 969-970
ISSN: 0309-1317
In: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
In: Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Volume 27, Issue 4, p. 602
In: Social scientist: monthly journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences, Volume 19, Issue 3/4, p. 79