{"product_id":"iran-in-motion-mobility-space-and-the-trans-iranian-railway-9781503613133","title":"Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompleted in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south. Iran's first national railway, it produced and disrupted various kinds of movement—voluntary and forced, intended and unintended, on different scales and in different directions—among Iranian diplomats, tribesmen, migrant laborers, technocrats, railway workers, tourists and pilgrims, as well as European imperial officials alike. \u003ci\u003eIran in Motion\u003c\/i\u003e tells the hitherto unexplored stories of these individuals as they experienced new levels of mobility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on newspapers, industry publications, travelogues, and memoirs, as well as American, British, Danish, and Iranian archival materials, Mikiya Koyagi traces contested imaginations and practices of mobility from the conception of a trans-Iranian railway project during the nineteenth-century global transport revolution to its early years of operation on the eve of Iran's oil nationalization movement in the 1950s. Weaving together various individual experiences, this book considers how the infrastructural megaproject reoriented the flows of people and goods. In so doing, the railway project simultaneously brought the provinces closer to Tehran and pulled them away from it, thereby constantly reshaping local, national, and transnational experiences of space among mobile individuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Amid the recent transnational turn in Middle East Studies, \u003ci\u003eIran in Motion\u003c\/i\u003e is a subtle treatment of the unintended consequences of the Trans-Iranian Railway project. Mikiya Koyagi reveals the centrifugal forces unleashed by a project that was designed to bind a nation together.\"—Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIran in Motion\u003c\/i\u003e exemplifies the gains of approaching modern Iran not through the lens of methodological statism but with a feel for state and non-state actors alike. The Trans-Iranian Railway, Mikiya Koyagi shows, made Iran both more fragmented \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e more homogeneous. A fascinating read.\"—Cyrus Schayegh, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva\u003cbr\u003e\"With fresh insights drawn from a wealth of new archival materials, Mikiya Koyagi transports us through the various stations that dotted Iran's path to modernity. Much more than a narrative of the railway project, \u003ci\u003eIran in Motion\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a deep understanding of the mobility networks that connected and divided Middle Eastern communities. A groundbreaking book.\"—Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIran in Motion\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome addition to our understanding of technological modernization in the Middle East. The book sits at the intersection of the modern history of Iran and mobility studies... Koyagi tactfully moves from macro to micro, and the other way around, to make sense of nuances within the big picture. \u003ci\u003eIran in Motion\u003c\/i\u003e appeals to general readers who seek non-Eurocentric histories of technology, but also, to scholars who are interested in the local and transnational histories of infrastructure and mobility.\"—Samin Rashidbeigi, \u003ci\u003eTechnology and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIran in Motion\u003c\/i\u003e is a model of social and labor history, well sourced in the ample Persian-language material...Highly recommended.\"—P. Clawson, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Koyagi's] work matter-of-factly integrates Iranian studies scholarship from Japanese academia, giving anglophone (and Persophone) students rare access to content of which we have been ignorant or neglectful. The result is a master narrative of social transformation in modern Iran composed of a mosaic of distinct episodes, each adding color and clarity to the bigger picture.\"—Camron Michael Amin, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Building a Transimperial Infrastructure\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Road to Salvation\u003cbr\u003e  3. Nationalizing the Railway\u003cbr\u003e  4. Redirecting Mobilities\u003cbr\u003e  5. Death on the Persian Corridor\u003cbr\u003e  6. Workers of the Victory Bridge\u003cbr\u003e  7. Traveling Citizens\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409405714775,"sku":"9781503613133","price":50.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781503613133.jpg?v=1730506693","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/iran-in-motion-mobility-space-and-the-trans-iranian-railway-9781503613133","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}