Dr Neda Hajivosough

Rowan University

Bio

Neda Hajivosough and Nawal H. Ammar are both at Rowan University, where Hajivosough is a Visiting Professor and Ammar is Dean of the Ric Edelman College of Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences. Their paper, “A Pedagogy of Staying: Everyday Gendered Resistance after Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement,” draws on feminist autoethnography in Tehran to examine resistance to compulsory hijab through “circulation of possibility,” “Pedagogy of Staying,” and “political latency,” showing how possibilities endure under constraint.

A Pedagogy of Staying: Everyday Gendered Resistance after Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement

Abstract

This article examines how gendered resistance after Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom movement reshapes what people understand as possible in everyday life. Drawing on a situated feminist autoethnography in Tehran (2022–2024), it shows how witnessing resistance to compulsory hijab can make alternative actions imaginable while also prompting support, intervention, or refusal to enforce the norm. The article develops the Pedagogy of Staying to explain how such possibilities can persist even when public behavior is constrained.