{"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 • Author(s): Ghassan Moussawi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: LGBTQ+ Studies - Gay Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisruptive Situations\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \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\u003e 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 \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","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46864392683671,"sku":"9781439918500","price":2768.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781439918500.webp?v=1769974122","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/disruptive-situations-fractal-orientalism-and-queer-strategies-in-beirut-9781439918500","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}