How do people experience cities and media in their everyday lives? How do they navigate their challenges and opportunities? Pedram Dibazars book offers a refreshing take on the modalities of experiencing the urban and visual space in Iranin its streets, cars, rooftops, shopping centres and sportscapes. Urban and Visual Culture in Contemporary Iran is a welcome contribution to the study of cities and their citizens as they operate in the subtleties of the quotidian. * Asef Bayat, Bastian Professor of Global & Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * From the humdrum to the carnevalesque and the subversive, Dibazar exposes how power, social practice and unruly creativity tie together the spatial and visual domains of everyday life in urban Iran, providing us with sophisticated insights into how people, places and things come together as society. * Rasmus Christian Elling, Associate Professor of Iranian Studies and Global Urban Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * This innovative study of urban Iran and visual culture offers powerful, new insights into the politics of visibility in cities. Dibazar develops a sophisticated theoretical framework through which to interpret architecture, film, media and everyday spatial practices. The result is not only a highly original analysis of contemporary Tehran, but also a conceptual toolkit for understanding the experience of cities everywhere. * Christoph Lindner, Professor of Urban Studies, University College London, UK *
