{"product_id":"9781439918500","title":"Disruptive Situations : Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut","description":"\u003cp\u003eDisruptive Situations challenges 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\n\n\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 \"al-wad',\" 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eDisruptive Situations alsoshows how LGBTQ Beirutis resist reconciliation narratives and position their identities and visibility at different times as ways of simultaneously managing their multiple positionalities and al-wad'. Moussawi argues that the daily survival strategies in Beirut are queer-and not only enacted by LGBTQ people-since Beirutis are living amidst an already queer situation of ongoing precarity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48952213537003,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":54.84,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781439918500-1.jpg?v=1783105374","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781439918500","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}