My research is concerned with the technopolitics of water infrastructures and the constitution and expansion of state power in Cold War Iran. I focus on projects of dam construction, rural development, and agricultural transformation in the province of Khuzestan from the 1950s through the 1970s...
Shima Houshyar
Shima Houshyar is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center, whose dissertation research focuses on the politics of water infrastructure, ecology, and the state in Cold War Iran.