Manata Hashemi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manata Hashemi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manata |
| FAMILY NAME | Hashemi |
| SIGNATURE | HASHEMI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0095-415X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
More Money, More Problems: Poverty, Recognition, and the Reframing of Success in Iran
This article examines how stigmatized service workers in Iran make claims to belonging and worth amid heightened structural insecurity. I highlight how workers use evaluative schema or "success narrative frames" revolving around interpretations of wealth, the rich, and success to counter their disadvantage and articulate new imaginings of success. I demonstrate how these discursive strategies minimize the importance of material wealth as the baro…
Sacrificial heroes: Masculinity, class, and waste picking in Iran
This article examines how five male waste pickers in Khorramabad, Iran, negotiate the stigmatization and criminalization associated with their work against the backdrop of escalating social inequality. I demonstrate how the men use embodied compliance and discursive narratives of masculine self-sacrifice to position themselves as innocent, sacrificial heroes. In changing the narrative from one of humiliation to valor, the men both amplify the cla…
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity
Dignity in the Time of Precarity
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Embedded Enclaves: Cultural Mimicry and Urban Social Exclusion in Iran
This article argues that symbolic boundaries and their spatial manifestation into embedded enclaves have become new forms of urban social exclusion. Based on participant observation and interviews among lower- and middle-/upper-class residents in the city of Sari, Iran, the article analyzes how the poor's physical circulations in the city and their performances of class and status have led to an elite backlash, as the latter find more refined mar…
Tarnished work: Dignity and labour in Iran
Constituting a growing portion of Iran’s labour force, the working poor shoulder the burden of Iran’s recent economic predicaments. However, little work has examined how working poor men and women employed in stigmatized service jobs cope with the status degradation associated with their work. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 12 service workers, this article examines how working in socially tarnished jobs contributes to these individuals’ mora…
Aspirations, Poverty and Behavior Among Youth in the Middle East: Some Theoretical Considerations
Waithood and Face: Morality and Mobility Among Lower-Class Youth in Iran
Waithood and Face: Morality and Mobility Among Lower-Class Youth in Iran
Tarnished work: Dignity and labour in Iran
Constituting a growing portion of Iran’s labour force, the working poor shoulder the burden of Iran’s recent economic predicaments. However, little work has examined how working poor men and women employed in stigmatized service jobs cope with the status degradation associated with their work. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 12 service workers, this article examines how working in socially tarnished jobs contributes to these individuals’ mora…
Embedded Enclaves: Cultural Mimicry and Urban Social Exclusion in Iran
This article argues that symbolic boundaries and their spatial manifestation into embedded enclaves have become new forms of urban social exclusion. Based on participant observation and interviews among lower- and middle-/upper-class residents in the city of Sari, Iran, the article analyzes how the poor's physical circulations in the city and their performances of class and status have led to an elite backlash, as the latter find more refined mar…
Dignity in the Time of Precarity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Waithood and Face: Morality and Mobility Among Lower-Class Youth in Iran
Aspirations, Poverty and Behavior Among Youth in the Middle East: Some Theoretical Considerations
Tarnished work: Dignity and labour in Iran
Constituting a growing portion of Iran’s labour force, the working poor shoulder the burden of Iran’s recent economic predicaments. However, little work has examined how working poor men and women employed in stigmatized service jobs cope with the status degradation associated with their work. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 12 service workers, this article examines how working in socially tarnished jobs contributes to these individuals’ mora…
Embedded Enclaves: Cultural Mimicry and Urban Social Exclusion in Iran
This article argues that symbolic boundaries and their spatial manifestation into embedded enclaves have become new forms of urban social exclusion. Based on participant observation and interviews among lower- and middle-/upper-class residents in the city of Sari, Iran, the article analyzes how the poor's physical circulations in the city and their performances of class and status have led to an elite backlash, as the latter find more refined mar…
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity
Dignity in the Time of Precarity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sacrificial heroes: Masculinity, class, and waste picking in Iran
This article examines how five male waste pickers in Khorramabad, Iran, negotiate the stigmatization and criminalization associated with their work against the backdrop of escalating social inequality. I demonstrate how the men use embodied compliance and discursive narratives of masculine self-sacrifice to position themselves as innocent, sacrificial heroes. In changing the narrative from one of humiliation to valor, the men both amplify the cla…
More Money, More Problems: Poverty, Recognition, and the Reframing of Success in Iran
This article examines how stigmatized service workers in Iran make claims to belonging and worth amid heightened structural insecurity. I highlight how workers use evaluative schema or "success narrative frames" revolving around interpretations of wealth, the rich, and success to counter their disadvantage and articulate new imaginings of success. I demonstrate how these discursive strategies minimize the importance of material wealth as the baro…
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Precarity (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)