Waiting and Hope in Iran
by Shahram Khosravi
- Author(s)
- Shahram Khosravi
- Publication, year
- Philadelphia : University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2017
- Scope
- 288 Pages, 23.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780812248876
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 carnival and social movements, continue to persist. 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. This book was used in the performance by Arefeh Riahi as part of the Uncertainty Seminar 'Care' at Stroom Den Haag, 2020.
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 6: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Theorie / Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Theory
- Remarks
- Incl. Index, Notes, References
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