Areas of research and interest
Main Areas of Research:
• Lifestyle migration
• Aspiration and future-making
• Identity and hybridity
Regional Focus:
Iran, Persian Gulf regions
Contact
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Munich
Room:
Room: CU110
Email:
Hanieh.Taheri@campus.lmu.de
PhD Project
Working Title: The Relationship Between Future-Making and Negotiated Aspirations in the Context of Lifestyle Migration: A Study of Young People on the Rural Iranian Island of Qeshm
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Sökefeld
Funding: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Academic Career
2024 – Present: PhD Candidate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich
2017 – 2020: M.A. Sociology with the focus on Youth Studies, University of Tehran
2013 – 2017: B.A. Anthropology, University of Tehran
Hanieh Taheri’s academic focus on minors led her to explore in her master's thesis how new liberal trends in new schooling systems, as an alternative pedagogy, in Iran form new subjectivities. Following the rekindled demands for social liberty, academic attention has been directed toward a new form of mobility in Iran, from major urban settings to rural areas, which is approached as a lifestyle migration motivated by liberal behavior. The current PhD project investigates the “hybridity” that emerges from the intermingling of Iran’s urban middle class and the minoritized local Sunni population in the Persian Gulf region. The main focus is on the constant negotiations of aspiration, as the youth confront multiple and conflicting visions of the future.