Critical Lefebvrian Analysis of the Emerge of Abstract Space in Iran with an emphasis on the City of Tehran

Yusefi, Rasool; Shayganfar, Nader; Khoddami, Alireza

doi:10.22034/jsi.2025.2032838.1726

Critical Lefebvrian Analysis of the Emerge of Abstract Space in Iran with an emphasis on the City of Tehran

Authors

Rasool Yusefi ¹

Nader Shayganfar ²

Alireza Khoddami ³

¹ Ph.D. Student of Art Studies, Department of Art Studies, Faculty of Research Excellence in Art and Entrepreneurship, Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

² Associate Professor of Art Research Department, Faculty of Research Excellence in Art and Entrepreneurship, Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, Jahrom Branch, Jahrom, Iran.

10.22034/jsi.2025.2032838.1726

Abstract

Lefebvre considers space as a fundamental component in the functioning and organization of society within the framework of historical models of production. In his point of view, capitalism has produced a kind of abstract space that is a reflection of the trading world. In the current research, an attempt has been made to study the formation of abstract space in Tehran and its conditions of the possibility. In Iran, the encounter with the abstract space of capitalism has occured during the Naseri Era, but due to the absence of mediators such as Law and the State, the conditions for the formation of an abstract space have not provided. Due to the Constitutional Revolution and the resulting law, as well as the formation of the modern government, these conditions have been provided, the city has dominated the rural, and capitalism begins to create its own space.

Keywords

Henri Lefebvre

Production of Space

State

Naseri Era

Abstract Space