Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran
- ISBN-10
- 0812248872
- ISBN-13
- 9780812248876
- Series
- Precarious Lives
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-02-20
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Author
- Shahram Khosravi
Description
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.
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