Precarious Lives - Waiting and Hope in Iran

Shahram Khosravi is Professor of Anthropology at Stockholm University. He is author of Young and Defiant in Tehran, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and "Illegal" Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Shahram Khosravi is Professor of Anthropology at Stockholm University. He is author of Young and Defiant in Tehran, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and "Illegal" Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders.

Zusammenfassung

Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with youth in Tehran and Isfahan as well as with migrant workers in rural areas, Shahram Khosravi weaves a tapestry from individual stories, government reports, statistics, and cultural analysis to depict how Iranians react to the experience of precarity and the possibility of hope.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Shahram Khosravi
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780812248876
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4887-6
• Seiten: 288
• Serien: Contemporary Ethnography; Contemporary Ethnography (Hard; Contemporary Ethnography
• Themen: Sachbuch > Psychologie, Esoterik, Spiritualität, Anthroposophie > Psychologie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien