Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran

(Part of the Contemporary Ethnography Series)

by Shahram Khosravi

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In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared visions of a futureless tomorrow, widespread home(land)lessness, intense individualism, and a growth of incivilities. On the other, daydreaming and hope, as well as civility and solidarity in political...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1512825565

ISBN13:9781512825565

Release Date:November 2023

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.94 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Psychology Social Science Social Sciences

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