The archaeology of a marginal neighborhood in Tehran, Iran: garbage, class, and identity

Tehran’s Archaeology of Garbage project was conducted in 2017–2018 and with the initial aim monitoring impacts currency devaluation on poor people. In Districts 7 17, team investigated two most decayed urban fabrics Tehran as well garbage bags 1004 marginalized families. Among these, we managed to find evidence a forgotten social group, ‘impoverished middle class’ which consisted people from middle-class background who had move neighborhood occupied by low-income classes. The garbage-making behaviors these communities were tracked led better understanding demographic changes recent protests. this article, I will present poverty District 17 open new debate emerging community its influence identity living 17.