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Youth runaways shape cosmopolitan identities, the city, and global flows in Tehran, Iran. How female runaway youth in the Iranian capital use the very classificatory markers that have differentiated them as either mischievous adolescents (rebels), or more frequently, as the embo…

This dissertation explores claims to community involved in the transnational struggles over representations of "Iran." Based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork in Southern California, online, and in Tehran, Iran, I studied several key performative sites where "Iran" is cons…