As people in Tehran seek cosmetic surgeries, they are understood to reveal the seemingly irrelevant (moral) geographies of the city. The interplay of social positioning within the urban city of Tehran and the sociospatial modalities of bodies have turned cosmetic surgeries into a tool through which the geographic and symbolic orders are negotiated and reproduced. This paper, through an ethnography of cosmetic surgeries in Tehran, explores the nuanced spatial-geographical dynamics that inform boundary making and embodied practices. Overviewing the geographies and sociospatial expansion of the city, I suggest how geographic mapping in the capital city of Tehran evolved into a complex relation between bodies and spatiality and informed the materiality of bodies. The complex relationships between geographies, power, and bodies within city spaces lead us to conceptualize geography as a capital in its own right and to revisit the scholarship on the urban geography of beauty and cosmetic surgeries. I propose the concept of “geographic capital” to analyze the relationality of social and physical spaces and to explore the subtle means through which power runs through geographies in the context in which the geographies are intertwined with what organizes bodily choices and sociospatial positioning.

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资本地理和地理资本

当德黑兰的人们寻求整容手术时，他们被理解为揭示了这座城市看似无关（道德）的地理环境。德黑兰市内的社会定位与身体的社会空间形态的相互作用，已经将整容手术变成了一种工具，通过这种工具可以协商和复制地理和象征秩序。本文通过德黑兰整容手术的民族志，探讨了细微的空间地理动态，这些动态为边界制定和具体实践提供了信息。纵观城市的地理和社会空间扩张，我建议首都德黑兰的地理制图如何演变成身体与空间之间的复杂关系，并为身体的物质性提供信息。地域、权力、城市空间内的身体和身体引导我们将地理概念化为首都，并重新审视城市地理美容和整容手术的学术研究。我提出“地理资本”的概念来分析社会和物理空间的关系，并在地理与组织身体选择和社会空间定位的事物交织在一起的背景下探索权力在地理中运行的微妙方式。