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Summary:

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.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Precarious Family
• ch. 2 1360 Generation
• ch. 3 Ephebiphobia, the Fear of Youth
• ch. 4 Streets
• ch. 5 Walls
• ch. 6 Learning to Endure
• ch. 7 Precarious Iran.

Author/Creator:

Khosravi, Shahram , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Precarious lives: waiting and hope in Iran [by Khosravi, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Precarious Lives : Waiting and Hope in Iran [by Khosravi, S.] (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., ©2017 — ISBN 9780812248876)

Related Series:

Contemporary ethnography

Subjects:

Identity (Psychology) in youth — Iran

Identity (Psychology) in youth — Political aspects — Iran

Identity (Psychology) in youth — Economic aspects — Iran

Youth — Iran — Social conditions

Group identity — Political aspects — Iran

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Feb. 16, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HQ799.I7 K47 2017eb

ISBNs:

9780812293692 (electronic bk.)
081229369X (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

971365647

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4791093 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp13403542