Coming of Age in Iran (eBook)

Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity

Manata Hashemi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-6208-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis Crippling sanctions, inflation, and unemployment have increasingly burdened young people in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In Coming of Age in Iran, Manata Hashemi takes us inside the lives of poor Iranian youth, showing how these young men and women face their future prospects.Drawing on first-hand accounts, Hashemi follows their stories, one by one, as they struggle to climb up the proverbial ladder of success. Based on years of ethnographic research among these youth in their homes, workspaces, and places of leisure, Hashemi shows how public judgments can give rise to meaningful changes for some while making it harder for others to escape poverty. Ultimately, Hashemi sheds light on the pressures these young men and women face, showing how many choose to comply with rather than resist social norms in their pursuit of status and belonging.Coming of Age in Iran tells the unprecedented story of how Iran s young and struggling attempt to extend dignity and alleviate misery, illuminating the promises and limits of finding one s place during a time of profound uncertainty.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.5.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Perspectives on Youth
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Perspectives on Youth
• Zusatzinfo: 18 black and white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Accentuated Conformism • Agency • appearances • aspirations • Bodily Capital • cultural mimicry • Cultural Production • Culture • dignity • Drug use • embourgeoisement • FACE • Face Game • Face Rules • Family Support • Feminization of Work • Hard Work • hegemony • Horizontal Exchange Networks • Incremental Mobility • Inequality • informal work • Kelās • Masculinity • Moral capital • Morality • Moral Pollution • Moral Purity • Moral Self • Pre-Existing Resources • resistance • Risk-taking • Ritual Action • Sari • satellite television • self sufficiency • Sexual Cleanliness • Social capital • Social Media • Social mobility • Social Ties • Socioeconomic Mobility • Status • Street Smarts • Symbolic boundaries • Tastemaking • Tehran • the gaze • Vertical Exchange Networks • Youth
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-6208-8 / 1479862088
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-6208-5 / 9781479862085