Iranian Journal of Sociology

Abstract Tehran is a city which is being reproduced, constantly.This means that the contemporary Tehran  was formed when a new logic dominated  this reproduction process. This research studied the history of Tehran with a genealogical perspective to find the previous logics and make a clear image of contemporary order of the city, and how and why this order has been generated. From 1989 with the changes in the government’s economic approaches, and in the urban management, a relation has been formed in which the city and space as commodities are being traded. This capitalistic relation is provided by suspension of urban rules. This new form of urban informality becomes possible with help of  the urban projects and the authority of management institutions like the Commission of the Fifth Article. Using the theory of urbanization of capital by David Harvey, and the theory of urban informality by Ananya Roy & Nezar AlSayyad, this research tries to analyze the new logic of Tehran and the role of effective factors and forces.    

Abstract In this article, we examine how the central component of cultural policy in the post-revolutionary Iran, 'Hijab' or the veiling policy, is contested by high school girls in Tehran. Qualitative data was gathered through in-depth interviewing among three public-school girls in three districts of Tehran (1, 6, and 12) and analyzed by thematic analysis. Accordingly, we concluded that Hijab, a formal and obligatory ideological code in girls' schools, is resisted by the students in different ways. Paradoxically, Hijab provokes students to create their new but hidden and separated world which is departed from that of the 'state/school ideal'. In fact, challenging the formal wearing codes is the main characteristic of the girls’ everyday life in high schools.