Extensive ethnographic engagement with Tehran and Isfahan youth and migrant workers provides authentic insights into Iranian society
Weaves together individual stories, government reports, statistics, and cultural analysis for a multidimensional portrait
Explores both the despair of precarity and the persistence of hope and civility in social movements
Offers a critical perspective on the contradictions of modern Iranian life, from spatial immobility to political protests
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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
