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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Shahram Khosravi
• Editore: University of pennsylvania pr
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780812248876
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4887-6
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Contemporary Ethnography; Contemporary Ethnography (Hard; Contemporary Ethnography
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche