{"product_id":"disruptive-situations","title":"Disruptive Situations","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","brand":"Ghassan Moussawi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43571936428214,"sku":"9781439918494","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781439918494_7395215e-f7ae-4249-b8c4-2f6e40e091fc.jpg?v=1727783422","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/disruptive-situations","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}