Part of the subordinated districts of Tehran, Iran, is under the supervision of a department in the municipality responsible for renovating areas of urban decay. At the same time, based on the Antiquities law, every monument or object older than 100 years and considered significant would be entitled "heritage." This bureaucratic process makes any reconstruction of subordinated districts complicated or impossible. The long-term conflict between these two sections of the government and the poverty of inhabitants of some historical districts have worsened the situation in areas of urban decay. In the time of doing a garbology project in Tehran in 2018, my colleagues and I investigated the daily garbage of impoverished inhabitants living on the southwestern side of the city. The garbage bags remain in open areas of streets or containers for several days, causing layers of toxic leachate. The aim of this report is to discuss the shortcomings of waste management systems in urban decay, especially after being considered "heritage, " which leads to the formation of toxic substances from daily garbage.

A couple of months after the 1979 revolution of Iran, the universities were occupied by the Islamists who oppressed dissident academics drastically. Two years after the revolution, the headquarter of the Cultural Revolution was established, and universities were shuttered to be purified from any other ideology except Islamism. Due to the heavy censorship of the regime, very little is known about the documents and process of oppression during and after the occupation of the universities. In 2010, the author gained access to a 'green notebook' found in a trashcan at the University of Tehran, which contains informal minutes of several meetings held by the Islamic Association of Students (IAS). As a direct practice of oppression, IAS had the mission to report the behaviors of the professors working in the department of archaeology to authorities. In this article, the author elucidates the process of oppression of archaeology professors through reading documents of the 'green notebook.'

During a survey on the island of oland in south-eastern Sweden, whose aim was to study the local waste-disposal practices, the authors recorded abandoned machinery and cars dating from the 1940s to today in locations close to residential areas and farms, and complemented the investigation by interviewing informants. This led them to conclude that dumping redundant objects in the surroundings of villages forms an entangled network with other behaviour, i.e. collecting things which had outlived their usefulness and embedding them in the landscape. The behaviour observed in oland is compared with two other cases of collecting abandoned objects in oland and southern Sweden. Using the location and chronology of the finds, the authors interpret the behaviour by borrowing the concept of heterotopia, as defined by Foucault.

Au cours de recherches dans l’île d’Öland dans le sud-est de la Suède destinées à étudier les pratiques d’élimination des déchets, les auteurs ont documenté des vestiges de voitures et autres engins des années 1940 à nos jours abandonnés dans des lieux proches de fermes et de zones résidentielles. Cette étude, complémentée par des entrevues avec les habitants de l’île, leur permet de conclure que les décharges d'objets devenus inutiles aux alentours des villages faisaient partie des habitudes locales de recueillir des objets usagés et de les insérer dans le paysage. Les auteurs comparent deux autres cas de collecte d'objets dans le sud de la suède et Öland au comportement observé sur l’île d’Öland. L'emplacement et la chronologie des objets leur permet de proposer que ce comportement représente un type d'hétérotopie telle que la définit Foucault. Translation by Madeleine Hummler

Während einer Studie der lokalen Abfallentsorgungsgewohnheiten auf der Insel Öland im schwedischen Südosten haben die Verfasser verlassene Fahrzeuge und Maschinen von den 1940er-Jahren bis heute in der Nähe von Siedlungen und Bauernhöfen dokumentiert. Die einheimische Bevölkerung wurde auch befragt. Damit gelangten die Verfasser zur Auffassung, dass die Entsorgung von nicht mehr brauchbaren Gegenständen in der Nähe von Dörfern ein Verhaltensmuster zum Vorschein bringt, welches das Sammeln von unbenutzbaren Sachen und ihre Einfügung in die Landschaft einschließt. Die Verhaltungsweise der Einwohner Ölands wird mit zwei anderen Sammlungen von verlassenen Gegenständen in Südschweden verglichen. Angesichts der Lage und Chronologie der Funde weist das Verhaltensmuster auf eine Heterotopie, wie sie Foucault definiert. Translation by Madeleine Hummler

Under en undersökning på Öland i sydöstra Sverige, vars syfte var att studera de lokala avfallshanteringsmetoderna, registrerade författarna övergivna maskiner och bilar från 1940-talet till idag på platser nära bostadsområden och gårdar. Undersökningen stärktes av intervjuer som hölls med informanter. Detta fick författarnaatt dra slutsatsen att dumpning av överflödiga föremål i byarnas omgivningar bildar ett intrasslat nätverk med andra beteenden. Det vill säga att samla in saker som överlevt sin användbarhet och bädda in dem i landskapet. Det beteende som observerats på Öland jämförs med två andra fall av insamling av övergivna föremål på Öland och i södra Sverige. Med hjälp av fyndens plats och kronologi tolkar författarna beteendet genom att låna begreppet heterotopia, enligt definitionen av Foucault.