Crisiswork: Activist Lifeworlds and Bounded Futures in Lebanon Book Launch
Hosted by the Center for Humanities Research
Monday, November 10, 2025 12:30 PM EST
Online Location
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In October 2025, Professor Yasemin İpek’s new book, Crisiswork: Activist Lifeworlds and Bounded Futures in Lebanon, will be published by Stanford University Press. Crisiswork presents a story of Lebanon through the lens of activist lifeworlds, showing how, amid crisis, both political structures and everyday life become a terrain of generative possibility. Through an ethnographic investigation into the relationship between crisis and political imagination, Yasemin İpek examines activism as an open-ended process, looking at the diversity of experiences that lead to ambivalent political engagements. Crisiswork demonstrates how class-based and other inequalities on local and global scales affect activists' lived realities and political imaginations. It provides an innovative analytical framework for understanding the complex political and social struggles against crises in the global South.
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This talk is part of the 2025 Next System Teach-In at GMU. For the full program of events, see https://nextsystem.gmu.edu/articles/22762
