Renegade Cosmopolitans

Iranian Architects, Professional Power, and the State

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9979415
AutoresShawhin Roudbari (0000-0003-1964-7069, University of Colorado Boulder, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen51
Número6
Páginas905-930
Fecha de publicación2018-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIranian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00210862.2018.1539620
OpenAlexW2901781285
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas36

Through migration, professional activism, and by engaging the symbolic terrain of architecture magazines and competitions, Iranian architects have sought to make their profession cosmopolitan. But following decades of isolationist tendencies, factions of the Iranian architecture profession continue to meet resistance from elements of the state. The profession’s institutions have become a battleground for the expression of the power of design professionals. Building on scholarship on relationships between states and professions as well as professionals’ expressions of cosmopolitanism, this paper demonstrates ways everyday professionals leverage their institutions for professional power. It shares accounts from a transnational ethnography of Iranian architects to show how, on the one hand, professional change seeps outside restrictions attributed to political and economic borders. On the other hand, the stories of cosmopolitan professionals show that the state need not be bound by structural sanctions, like those Iran has faced, in its efforts to cultivate an avant-garde

Art · City-state · Cosmopolitanism · Ethnography · Leverage (statistics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Visual arts · Anthropology · Architecture · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Socioeconomic Development in MENA