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:: Volume 13, Issue 4 (4-2025) ::
scds 2025, 13(4): 118-143 Back to browse issues page
Reinventing Charity in Children’s Everyday Experience: A Critical Analysis of Ismail Azarinejad’s Social Practices on the X Platform Through the Lens of Henri Lefebvre’s Theory
Mehri Bahar , Fateme Kamali
Associate Professor, Department of Social Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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This study reconsiders the meaning of charity in contemporary Iran by examining the social practices of Ismail Azarinejad in the “Oak House” project in rural Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad. Grounded in Henri Lefebvre’s theory of everyday life—particularly the production of space and embodied action—the article argues that charity here shifts from traditional, ritualized giving toward a creative and participatory practice embedded in daily life. Using a qualitative approach informed by critical discourse analysis and thematic analysis, the research analyzes 33 tweets, with four posts selected for close interpretive reading. The findings show that charity in “Oak House” is redefined through children’s creation of aesthetic spaces, the breaking of taboos around the female body via sanitary pad distribution, girls’ public speaking as a reappropriation of space, and acts of silence and imagination in religious settings as a revival of agency. These practices transform the child from a passive beneficiary into an active, creative subject, revealing charity as a site of meaning-making and the disruption of dominant orders in everyday life.

 
Keywords: Charity, Children’s agency, Everyday life, Production of Space
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2025/01/6 | Accepted: 2025/04/9 | Published: 2026/02/4
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Bahar M, Kamali F. Reinventing Charity in Children’s Everyday Experience: A Critical Analysis of Ismail Azarinejad’s Social Practices on the X Platform Through the Lens of Henri Lefebvre’s Theory. scds 2025; 13 (4) :118-143
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