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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 a growth of incivilities. On the other,
daydreaming and hope, as well as civility and solidarity in
political protests, street carnivals, and social movements,
continue to persist. Young Iranians describe themselves as being
stuck in purposelessness and forced to endure endless waiting, and
they are also aware that they are perceived as unproductive and a
burden on their society. Despite the aspirations and inspiration
they possess, they find themselves forced into petrifying social
and spatial immobility. Uncertainty in the present, a seemingly
futureless tomorrow: these are the circumstances that Khosravi
explores in Precarious Lives. Creating an intricate and moving
portrait of contemporary Iranian life, Khosravi weaves together
individual stories, government reports, statistics, and cultural
analysis of art and literature to depict how Iranians react to the
experience of precarity and the possibility of hope. Drawing on
extensive ethnographic engagement with youth in Tehran and Isfahan
as well as with migrant workers in rural areas, Khosravi examines
the complexities and contradictions of everyday life in Iran.
Precarious Lives is a vital work of contemporary anthropology that
serves as a testament to the shared hardship and hope of the
Iranian people.
This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon
that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an
analytical perspective on migration processes and practices.
Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the
complex and shifting nature of processes of bordering, belonging,
state power, exclusion and inclusion, and social relations in
irregular migration. The chapters in this book address legal,
bureaucratic, ethical, gendered, and affective dimensions of time
and migration. A key concern is to develop more theoretically
robust approaches to waiting in migration as constituted in and
through multiple and relational temporalities. The chapters
highlight how waiting is configured in specific legal, material,
and socio-cultural situations, as well as how migrants encounter,
incorporate, and resist temporal structures. This collection
includes ethnographic and other empirically based material, as well
as theorizing that cross-cut disciplinary boundaries. It will be
relevant to scholars from anthropology and sociology, and others
interested in temporalities, migration, borders, and power. The
Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.tandfebooks.com , has been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon
that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an
analytical perspective on migration processes and practices.
Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the
complex and shifting nature of processes of bordering, belonging,
state power, exclusion and inclusion, and social relations in
irregular migration. The chapters in this book address legal,
bureaucratic, ethical, gendered, and affective dimensions of time
and migration. A key concern is to develop more theoretically
robust approaches to waiting in migration as constituted in and
through multiple and relational temporalities. The chapters
highlight how waiting is configured in specific legal, material,
and socio-cultural situations, as well as how migrants encounter,
incorporate, and resist temporal structures. This collection
includes ethnographic and other empirically based material, as well
as theorizing that cross-cut disciplinary boundaries. It will be
relevant to scholars from anthropology and sociology, and others
interested in temporalities, migration, borders, and power. The
Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.tandfebooks.com , has been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision' - Ruth Wilson
Gilmore The word smuggler often unleashes a simplified, negative
image painted by the media and the authorities. Such state-centric
perspectives hide many social, political and economic relations
generated by smuggling. This book looks at the practice through the
eyes of the smugglers, revealing how their work can be productive,
subversive and deeply sociopolitical. By tracing the illegalised
movement of people and goods across borders, Seeing Like a Smuggler
shows smuggling as a contradiction within the nation-state system,
and in a dialectical relation with the national order of things. It
raises questions on how smuggling engages and unsettles the ethics,
materialities, visualities, histories and the colonial power
relations that form borders and bordering. Covering a wide spectrum
of approaches from personal reflections and ethnographies to
historical accounts, cultural analysis and visual essays, the book
spans the globe from Colombia to Ethiopia, Singapore to Guatemala,
Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and from Kurdistan to Bangladesh, to show
how people deal with global inequalities and the restrictions of
poverty and immobility.
'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision' - Ruth Wilson
Gilmore The word smuggler often unleashes a simplified, negative
image painted by the media and the authorities. Such state-centric
perspectives hide many social, political and economic relations
generated by smuggling. This book looks at the practice through the
eyes of the smugglers, revealing how their work can be productive,
subversive and deeply sociopolitical. By tracing the illegalised
movement of people and goods across borders, Seeing Like a Smuggler
shows smuggling as a contradiction within the nation-state system,
and in a dialectical relation with the national order of things. It
raises questions on how smuggling engages and unsettles the ethics,
materialities, visualities, histories and the colonial power
relations that form borders and bordering. Covering a wide spectrum
of approaches from personal reflections and ethnographies to
historical accounts, cultural analysis and visual essays, the book
spans the globe from Colombia to Ethiopia, Singapore to Guatemala,
Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and from Kurdistan to Bangladesh, to show
how people deal with global inequalities and the restrictions of
poverty and immobility.
This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what
happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation.
Although there is a growing literature on detention and
deportation, academic research on post-deportation is scarce. The
book produces knowledge about the consequences of forced removal
for deportee's adjustment and "reintegration" in so-called "home"
country. As the pattern of migration changes, new research
approaches are needed. This book contributes to establish a more
multifaceted picture of criminalization of migration and adds novel
aspects and approaches, both theoretically and empirically, to the
field of migration research.
This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what
happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation.
Although there is a growing literature on detention and
deportation, academic research on post-deportation is scarce. The
book produces knowledge about the consequences of forced removal
for deportee's adjustment and "reintegration" in so-called "home"
country. As the pattern of migration changes, new research
approaches are needed. This book contributes to establish a more
multifaceted picture of criminalization of migration and adds novel
aspects and approaches, both theoretically and empirically, to the
field of migration research.
With more than half its population under twenty years old, Iran
is one of the world's most youthful nations. The Iranian state
characterizes its youth population in two ways: as a homogeneous
mass, "an army of twenty millions" devoted to the Revolution, and
as alienated, inauthentic, Westernized consumers who constitute a
threat to the society. Much of the focus of the Islamic regime has
been on ways to protect Iranian young people from moral hazards and
to prevent them from providing a gateway for cultural invasion from
the West. Iranian authorities express their anxieties through
campaigns that target the young generation and its lifestyle and
have led to the criminalization of many of the behaviors that make
up youth culture.In this ethnography of contemporary youth culture
in Iran's capital, Shahram Khosravi examines how young Tehranis
struggle for identity in the battle over the right to
self-expression. Khosravi looks closely at the strictures
confronting Iranian youth and the ways transnational cultural
influences penetrate and flourish. Focusing on gathering places
such as shopping centers and coffee shops, Khosravi examines the
practices of everyday life through which young Tehranis demonstrate
defiance against the official culture and parental dominance. In
addition to being sites of opposition, Khosravi argues, these
alternative spaces serve as creative centers for expression and,
above all, imagination. His analysis reveals the transformative
power these spaces have and how they enable young Iranians to
develop their own culture as well as individual and generational
identities. The text is enriched by examples from literature and
cinema and by livid reports from the author's fieldwork.
Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all
wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. What does it
mean to wait for a long period of time? How do people narrate their
waiting? Waiting is about the senses. If you do not sense it, there
is no waiting. We sense waiting in the form of boredom, despair,
anxiety and restlessness, but also anticipation and hope. Prolonged
waiting is like insomnia - a state of wakefulness, a kind of mood,
an emotional state. But it is also about politics; affecting and
affected by gender, citizenship, class, and race. Blending
ethnography, philosophy, poetry, art, and fiction, this book is a
collection of works by scholars, visual artists, writers,
architects and curators, exploring different forms of waiting in
diverse geographical contexts, and the enduring effects of history,
power, class, and coloniality.
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 a growth of incivilities. On the other,
daydreaming and hope, as well as civility and solidarity in
political protests, street carnivals, and social movements,
continue to persist. Young Iranians describe themselves as being
stuck in purposelessness and forced to endure endless waiting, and
they are also aware that they are perceived as unproductive and a
burden on their society. Despite the aspirations and inspiration
they possess, they find themselves forced into petrifying social
and spatial immobility. Uncertainty in the present, a seemingly
futureless tomorrow: these are the circumstances that Khosravi
explores in Precarious Lives. Creating an intricate and moving
portrait of contemporary Iranian life, Khosravi weaves together
individual stories, government reports, statistics, and cultural
analysis of art and literature to depict how Iranians react to the
experience of precarity and the possibility of hope. Drawing on
extensive ethnographic engagement with youth in Tehran and Isfahan
as well as with migrant workers in rural areas, Khosravi examines
the complexities and contradictions of everyday life in Iran.
Precarious Lives is a vital work of contemporary anthropology that
serves as a testament to the shared hardship and hope of the
Iranian people.
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