Precarious Lives : : Waiting and Hope in Iran / / Shahram Khosravi.

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 ho...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Ethnography
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 6 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Transliteration and Dates
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Precarious Family
  • Chapter 2. The 1360 Generation
  • Chapter 3. Ephebiphobia, the Fear of Youth
  • Chapter 4. Streets
  • Chapter 5. Walls
  • Chapter 6. Learning to Endure
  • Chapter 7. Precarious Iran
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments