Disruptive Situations - Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut (Paperback)

Disruptive Situations challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm. Ghassan Moussawi, a Beirut native, seeks to uncover the underlying processes of what he calls "fractal orientalism," a relational understanding of modernity and cosmopolitanism that illustrates how transnational discourses of national and sexual exceptionalism operate on multiple scales in the Arab world. Moussawi's intrepid ethnography features the voices of women, gay men and genderqueers in Beirut to examine how queer individuals negotiate life in this uncertain region. He examines "al-wad'," or "the situation," to understand the practices that form these strategies and to raise questions about queer-friendly spaces in and beyond Beirut. Disruptive Situations alsoshows how LGBTQ Beirutis resist reconciliation narratives and position their identities and visibility at different times as ways of simultaneously managing their multiple positionalities and al-wad'. Moussawi argues that the daily survival strategies in Beirut are queer-and not only enacted by LGBTQ people-since Beirutis are living amidst an already queer situation of ongoing precarity.

General

Imprint:	Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Ghassan Moussawi
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	218
ISBN-13:	978-1-4399-1850-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4399-1850-3
Barcode:	9781439918500

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