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Author Moussawi, Ghassan, 1985- author.

Title Disruptive situations : fractal Orientalism and queer strategies in Beirut / Ghassan Moussawi
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 192 pages) : illustrations
Series Sexuality studies
Sexuality studies.
Contents Introduction: While "The World is Beiruting Again" -- From Binaries to Fractals: "Glitter and Fear of Gay Life in Beirut" -- "Because Lebanon is Not Kandahar": Beirut as Queer Exception -- Against Reconciliation -- Always Visible -- The Bubble -- Conclusion: Feeling Exceptional and Queer (Dis)Locations -- Methodological Appendix -- Descriptions of Select Neighborhoods in Beirut
Summary Disruptive 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. Moussawi’s intrepid ethnography features the voices of women, gay men, and genderqueer persons 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. Disruptive Situations also shows 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.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Ghassan Moussawi is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
American Sociological Association's Section on Sexualities Distinguished Book Award, 2021
2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2020)
Subject Sexual minorities -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- 21st century
Gender-nonconforming people -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- 21st century
Gay people -- Travel -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- 21st century
Social stability -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- 21st century
Gays -- Travel
Gender-nonconforming people
Sexual minorities
Social stability
SUBJECT Beirut (Lebanon) -- Social condititions -- 21st century
Subject Lebanon -- Beirut
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019039563
ISBN 1439918511
9781439918517