ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The chapter describes the practice of international travel is the other side of the coin of internal mobility, and in the respect it is a good way of describing Iran itself, whose population continues to leave without leaving behind, and to leave behind without leaving. It deals with a kind of man, the so-called being-in-society, who in many respects updated the classic lifestyle of the javanmard, the decent man, in the new context of the city, the revolution and the Islamic Republic, and in his relationship to the religious sphere. The javanmard-traveller's practices the same ambiguity as those of his sedentary equivalent, but contribute in a different way to the production of the Iranian nation, identity and authenticity. The revolutionary marches of 1978-1979 were the privileged moment when Iranians could take possession of their city and indeed their country.