Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran

by Shahram Khosravi

Book Overview

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"