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<p>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 study develops an assemblage-informed dialogic methodology that connects the authors’ (dis)embodied engagements with these sites to sustained dialogic exchanges across time and space. Drawing on lived experience, social observation, and interactive geography, the study introduces the concept of crystallisation to describe the temporary stabilisation of <i>affective atmospheres</i> within these courts, through which relations between socio-material arrangements and dialogic territorialisation—mobilising relations and polyphony—become visible. The findings show that public basketball courts are not merely physical settings, but more-than-human territories that generate affects, mobilise youth participation, and support forms of tacticalism. Within urban education, these courts become deterritorialised into zones of discourse, empathy, communicative exchange, and amplified voice, before participation is gradually reterritorialised. Educational citizenship is therefore understood not as a fixed attribute, but as a dialogic and (dis)embodied process through which presence, movement, and self/other relations are continually negotiated and recomposed.</p>

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

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    2026年7月1日

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  • Erfan Heidari,
  • Mahtab Janfada

摘要

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 study develops an assemblage-informed dialogic methodology that connects the authors’ (dis)embodied engagements with these sites to sustained dialogic exchanges across time and space. Drawing on lived experience, social observation, and interactive geography, the study introduces the concept of crystallisation to describe the temporary stabilisation of affective atmospheres within these courts, through which relations between socio-material arrangements and dialogic territorialisation—mobilising relations and polyphony—become visible. The findings show that public basketball courts are not merely physical settings, but more-than-human territories that generate affects, mobilise youth participation, and support forms of tacticalism. Within urban education, these courts become deterritorialised into zones of discourse, empathy, communicative exchange, and amplified voice, before participation is gradually reterritorialised. Educational citizenship is therefore understood not as a fixed attribute, but as a dialogic and (dis)embodied process through which presence, movement, and self/other relations are continually negotiated and recomposed.