Basketball Courts as Chronotopic Assemblages: (Dis)Embodied Dialogues in Becoming Educational Citizens

Abstract

Public [basketball] courts are increasingly recognised as informal urban spaces where civic relations are learned, contested, and renegotiated. However, existing scholarship often gives limited attention to how human and non-human elements, affective relations, and dialogic practices together shape pedagogical becoming under conditions of social and political constraint. This study conceptualises Tehran’s public basketball courts as spatio-dialogical territories where improvisation, micropolitics (generative negotiations that unsettle fixed social positions), and socio-material relations shape youth participation and sustain educational citizenship as an ongoing process of becoming. The stud..