{"product_id":"disruptive-situations-ghassan-moussawi-9781439918500","title":"Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisruptive Situations \u003c\/i\u003echallenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm. Ghassan Moussawi, a Beirut native, seeks to uncover the underlying processes of what he calls \"fractal orientalism,\" a relational understanding of modernity and cosmopolitanism that illustrates how transnational discourses of national and sexual exceptionalism operate on multiple scales in the Arab world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoussawi's intrepid ethnography features the voices of women, gay men and genderqueers in Beirut to examine how queer individuals negotiate life in this uncertain region. He examines \"\u003ci\u003eal-wad'\u003c\/i\u003e,\" or \"the situation,\" to understand the practices that form these strategies and to raise questions about queer-friendly spaces in and beyond Beirut. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisruptive Situations \u003c\/i\u003ealso\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eshows how LGBTQ Beirutis resist reconciliation narratives and position their identities and visibility at different times as ways of simultaneously managing their multiple positionalities and \u003ci\u003eal-wad'\u003c\/i\u003e. Moussawi argues that the daily survival strategies in Beirut are \u003ci\u003equeer\u003c\/i\u003e--and not only enacted by LGBTQ people--since Beirutis are living amidst an already \u003ci\u003equeer situation\u003c\/i\u003e of ongoing precarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ghassan Moussawi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439918503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439918500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/22\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Ghassan Moussawi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043679957247,"sku":"9781439918500","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fbe648a0-4f5b-4c12-8568-402e322dcb76.jpg?v=1684968530","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/disruptive-situations-ghassan-moussawi-9781439918500","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}