Aidin Torkameh

Aidin Torkameh is a PhD candidate in Environmental Studies at York University, Canada. Over the past ten years, he has translated Henri Lefebvre’s Dialectical Materialism, Rhythmanalysis, The Survival of Capitalism, Mark Gotdiener’s the Social Production of Urban Space; Andrzej Zieleniec’s Space and Social Theory into Persian. Employing Lefebvre’s ‘the production of space’, Gramsci’s ‘spatial historicism’, and Poulantzas’s state theory Aidin’s dissertation examines the production of Iran as a national state space (since the 19th century). Aidin also established (2016) the first (online) journal on critical urban theory and human geography in Persian named Space & Dialectics. 

Contributions

‛Abbās Kīyārustamī’s Early Cinema: The Production of Gendered Space in 1970s Iran

Introduction This article examines the early cinematographic works of ‛Abbās Kīyārustamī (1940-2016), spotlighting the intricate nexus between childhood, education, and…