The Program in Iranian Studies Iran Colloquium presents Kusha Sefat, University of Tehran:
“Revolution of Things: Materiality, Absence, and Transcendence in Tehran.”
Kusha Sefat is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Tehran. His work has been published in English and Persian – it brings Science and Technology Studies and, interrelatedly, the new materialism to bear on political, cultural, and environmental sociology with an emphasis on the global south. In his recently published book, titled Revolution of Things: The Islamism and Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran (Princeton University Press 2023), Kusha rethinks the place of materiality and language in politics by reconstructing the political history of revolutionary Iran at the intersection of everyday objects and words. Kusha sits on the editorial board of Cultural Sociology and is the founder of the political ecology cluster at the University of Tehran.