{"product_id":"crisiswork-yasemin-pek-9781503643864","title":"Crisiswork: Activist Lifeworlds and Bounded Futures in Lebanon","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe world's attention has often turned to Lebanon in moments of crisis, including, recently, during the Beirut Port Explosion in 2020 and the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Less told is the story of how such major events, and other predicaments from Lebanon's long history, have mobilized a thriving network of activists whose lived experiences of multiple crises have shaped their politics, belonging, and vision of Lebanon's future. \u003ci\u003eCrisiswork\u003c\/i\u003e presents a story of Lebanon through the lens of activist lifeworlds, showing how, amid crisis, both political structures and everyday life become a terrain of generative possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough an ethnographic investigation into the relationship between crisis and political imagination, Yasemin İpek examines activism as an open-ended process, looking at the diversity of experiences that leads to ambivalent political engagements. She follows a range of self-identified activists--including unemployed NGO volunteers, middle-class consultants, and leftist entrepreneurs--as their crisiswork, and response to contradictory pressures, leads them to new ways of being and acting. \u003ci\u003eCrisiswork\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how class-based and other inequalities on local and global scales affect the lived realities and political imaginations of activists. It provides an innovative analytical framework for understanding the complex political and social struggles against crises in the global South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yasemin İpek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503643867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503643864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Yasemin \u0026#304;pek","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46825950052607,"sku":"9781503643864","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a28cf475-deff-4fb8-935c-104feaa30f59.jpg?v=1746074116","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crisiswork-yasemin-pek-9781503643864","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}