Document Type : Research

Authors

• Baharak Mahmoodi ¹
• Abbas Varij Kazemi ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

² Associate professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Institute for Cultural and Social Studies, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

This article has been written with the aim of critical study on the book Everyday Life of Urban Precariat (2013-2011) written by Alireza Sadeghi.  This book is considered as a collection of works written in the theoretical-methodological tradition of Bayat and according to the author, it is readable in the continuation of Bayat's book "Street Policies" which was written in 1997. The results of this critical study show that although the information and evidence presented in the book, which has been analyzed in an ethnographic manner, indicate the depth and breadth of this research, the fact is that the book is one of its original examples of "street politics". He has not stepped beyond. Also, showing the negligence and insignificance of the role of the poor in reproducing the inferiority situation and urban irregularities is a point that can be seen in the design and summary of the present book.

Keywords

• Everyday Life
• The Urban Precariat
• The City
• The Resistance
• Neoliberalism

Main Subjects

• Sociology