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<title>Territory Jam: Satellite Television and Public Space in Tehran : Responses</title>
<description>Design Observer ::Â Join the Discussion</description>
<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/territory-jam-satellite-tv-and-public-space-in-tehran/35018/</link>
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<dc:creator>Design Observer Group</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-10-25T15:14:06-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Territory Jam: Satellite Television and Public Space in Tehran"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[I attended her talk when she presented this paper at UC Riverside on Oct. 24.  It was informative when it came to the public use of space in Iran and issues of enforcing morality, but the talk was hopelessly Eurocentric, unable to see past secular-liberal assumptions of the "proper" use of public space.  The first clue was her origin myth of public space as coming from ancient Greece, as though no other place in the world had public spaces before this time-- Ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia anyone?  She talks of the morality police as though state power and control of spaces is unique to the Iranian context, failing to connect state power and the control of spaces cross-culturally-- hindering instead of moving our understanding.  Whereas secular-liberal assumptions of public spaces are naturalized, theocratic ones are problematized.  If we take the US as comparison, state power was demonstrated with the use of militarized police in controlling mass demonstrations in Zucotti Park, UC Davis, and even here at UC Riverside almost a year ago.  We too have legal and cultural conceptions of proper use of public space-- it would be illegal in a public park to walk naked, have intercourse, set up a stall, or nail a flyer to a tree-- or challenge in any way the established neoliberal power structure without encountering the discipline of militarized state power. In Iran, homelessness, street vendors, jaywalking is not enforced or penalized as they are in the US.  What is informative is state power in different contexts control public spaces for different purposes, not that one is "liberal" and therefore "good", and the other is "theocratic" and therefore "bad."  In treating state power, it would be rude to ignore the tremendous power differentials between the US and Iran and how that plays into local power politics-- relentless US propaganda against Iran in the US, and satellite jamming of western media in Iran.  The Eurocentric framing of this paper, especially about the "other" (read: oil rich Islamic world) only serve to demonize and justify western imperialism. ]]></description>
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	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/territory-jam-satellite-tv-and-public-space-in-tehran/35018/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2012-10-25T15:14:06-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Territory Jam: Satellite Television and Public Space in Tehran"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Interesting article describing a phenomenon that most people in the U.S. will find upsetting if not surprising.  The interior nature of Iranian life also really hit home for me after reading Marjane Satrapi's books -- while it looked fun to hang out in a liberal Tehrani household, the underlying fear of discovery would seem like too much to bear by anyone who wasn't sadly used to it.  Makes us glad to live in an open society despite some of the annoyances of freedom of expression!]]></description>
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	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/territory-jam-satellite-tv-and-public-space-in-tehran/35018/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2012-07-11T22:58:28-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Territory Jam: Satellite Television and Public Space in Tehran"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Tremendously well-documented article on a fascinating and little-known aspect of the Islamic Republic of Iran. ]]></description>
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	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/territory-jam-satellite-tv-and-public-space-in-tehran/35018/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2012-07-10T02:54:25-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Territory Jam: Satellite Television and Public Space in Tehran"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[A very thorough essay which sheds some light on a little-known phenomenon of modern-day living in Iran. Very well-researched and informative.]]></description>
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	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/territory-jam-satellite-tv-and-public-space-in-tehran/35018/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2012-07-09T16:42:22-05:00</dc:date>
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