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...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Urban & Regional Research Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 914 - 930 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2019
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