Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon
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American University of Beirut
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Armenian diaspora
Armenian Revolutionary Federation
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Bourj Hammoud
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Community network
Credit card
Debt
Decentralization
Emergency management
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Ethnic conflict
Eviction
Exclusion
Fawaz
Funding
Governance
Haigazian University
Humanitarian aid
Identity document
Inefficiency
Informality
Infrastructure
Institution
International organization
Islamism
Jurisdiction
Kurds
Lebanese Civil War
Migrant worker
Modernity
Nagorno-Karabakh
Narrative
National Pact
Non-governmental organization
Ottoman Empire
Ownership
Political party
Politics
Professionalization
Provision (contracting)
Public housing
Public sphere
Rafic Hariri
Refugee
Refugee camp
Religious organization
Sanjak
Saudi Arabia
Sectarianism
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Squatting
State actor
Suad Joseph
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The Other Hand
The Various
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Urban planning
War
Welfare
Western Armenian
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691168975
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 Dec 2016
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too often, the answer is sectarianism--popularly viewed as a timeless and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how wrong this perspective can be. Through in-depth research with local governments, NGOs, and political parties in Beirut, she demonstrates how sectarianism is actually recalibrated on a daily basis through the provision of essential services and infrastructures, such as electricity, medical care, credit, and the planning of bridges and roads. Taking readers to a working-class, predominantly Armenian suburb in northeast Beirut called Bourj Hammoud, Nucho conducts extensive interviews and observations in medical clinics, social service centers, shops, banking coops, and municipal offices. She explores how group and individual access to services depends on making claims to membership in the dominant sectarian community, and she examines how sectarianism is not just tied to ethnoreligious identity, but also class, gender, and geography.
Life in Bourj Hammoud makes visible a broader pattern in which the relationships that develop while procuring basic needs become a way for people to see themselves as part of the greater public. Illustrating how sectarianism in Lebanon is not simply about religious identity, as is commonly thought, Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon offers a new look at how everyday social exchanges define and redefine communities and conflicts.
Joanne Randa Nucho is a Mellon-Chau postdoctoral fellow in anthropology at Pomona College.
