{"product_id":"disruptive-situations-fractal-orientalism-and-queer-strategies-in-beirut-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGhassan Moussawi\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and of Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50434888925458,"sku":"9781439918500","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e1f662b3-4fa6-4612-9d6d-a9535c65ff2f.jpg?v=1729610815","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disruptive-situations-fractal-orientalism-and-queer-strategies-in-beirut-9781439918500","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}