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.

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Shahram Khosravi

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Shahram Khosravi
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780812248876
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4887-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Contemporary Ethnography; Contemporary Ethnography (Hard; Contemporary Ethnography
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology