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Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) is, for many, most immediately recognized by his unparalleled film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Yet Kubrick should be regarded as a true genius in the realms of cinema and cinematic writing. A skilled…

– In a society like Iran, what is the definition of the middle class, and how does this definition differ from that of other parts of the world? The term “middle class” is used more frequently in general contexts, such as media…

​In the current difficult and complex situation, the result of a hundred years of accumulated errors (despite significant successes) in the pursuit of modernity, the talk everywhere is of "infiltration" and the "infiltrator." This refers to…

Some societies, during certain historical periods, are confronted with an intense experience of death. This experience, which is deeply unequal in its distribution across time and space, social groups, and within socio-cultural and…

Before reducing the issue of supporting or opposing nuclear negotiations and cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency to an internal dispute between reformists and conservatives—or simplifying it into a binary opposition…

Nasser Fakouhi is professor of anthropology at the University of Tehran. In light of the most recent protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, we are reflecting on a 2016 interview between Fakouhi and Social Science Space in…

There was a time when the male-dominated culture of cinema persistently sought to reduce women to mere objects of desire — sexualized images that reinforced gendered clichés and the subordination of women. A time when women were…

The far-right and extremist government of Benjamin Netanyahu has found itself in an unprecedented state of international isolation. The reasons for this are both clear and ongoing: 1. The continued genocide and war crimes in Gaza; 2.…

Once upon a time, Tehran was a city of gardens and streams, with fresh air that attracted the elite, who would settle there to adorn their lavish tables with its fruits. Tehran was once home to alley-gardens in Tajrish, filled with the…

Revue des Sciences Sociales Année 2012 47 pp. 164-171 Fait partie d’un numéro thématique : La ville au défi de l'environnement Plan La ville iranienne, malade de son histoire Exclusion, pauvreté urbaine et processus de ruralisation…