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War Is Coming : Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon / Sami Hermez.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Ethnography of Political ViolencePublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 20 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812248869
  • 9780812293685
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.6 23
LOC classification:
  • HN659.Z9
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Translation -- Timeline of Key Historical Moments -- Major Political Parties and Political Blocs -- List of Characters -- Chapter 1. In the Meanwhile: Theory and Fieldwork in Protracted Conflict -- Chapter 2. War, Politics, and Lunch: Conversations of Everyday Life -- Chapter 3. "At the Gates of War": Time, Space, and the Anticipation of Political Violence -- Chapter 4. "This Is Our Life": Experiencing the Intensification of Political Violence -- Chapter 5. Enframing the Anticipation of War -- Chapter 6. Active Forgetting and the Memory of War in Everyday Life -- Chapter 7. Ambiguities of War's Remembrance: Two Episodes -- Chapter 8. Amnesty as a Politics of Protracted Conflict -- Continuations. The Anticipation of War in 2009- 2014 -- Appendix 1. The Cairo Agreement -- Appendix 2. The Doha Agreement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead, a politics of "no victor, no vanquished" was promoted, in which the political elite agreed simply to consign the war to the past. However, since then, Lebanon has found itself still entangled in various forms of political violence, from car bombings and assassinations to additional outbreaks of armed combat.In War Is Coming, Sami Hermez argues that the country's political leaders have enabled the continuation of violence and examines how people live between these periods of conflict. What do everyday conversations, practices, and experiences look like during these moments? How do people attempt to find a measure of certainty or stability in such times? Hermez's ethnographic study of everyday life in Lebanon between the volatile years of 2006 and 2009 tackles these questions and reveals how people engage in practices of recollecting past war while anticipating future turmoil. Hermez demonstrates just how social interactions and political relationships with the state unfold and critically engages our understanding of memory and violence, seeing in people's recollections living and spontaneous memories that refuse to forget the past. With an attention to the details of everyday life, War Is Coming shows how even a conversation over lunch, or among friends, may turn into a discussion about both past and future unrest.Shedding light on the impact of protracted conflict on people's everyday experiences and the way people anticipate political violence, Hermez highlights an urgency for alternative paths to sustaining political and social life in Lebanon.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Translation -- Timeline of Key Historical Moments -- Major Political Parties and Political Blocs -- List of Characters -- Chapter 1. In the Meanwhile: Theory and Fieldwork in Protracted Conflict -- Chapter 2. War, Politics, and Lunch: Conversations of Everyday Life -- Chapter 3. "At the Gates of War": Time, Space, and the Anticipation of Political Violence -- Chapter 4. "This Is Our Life": Experiencing the Intensification of Political Violence -- Chapter 5. Enframing the Anticipation of War -- Chapter 6. Active Forgetting and the Memory of War in Everyday Life -- Chapter 7. Ambiguities of War's Remembrance: Two Episodes -- Chapter 8. Amnesty as a Politics of Protracted Conflict -- Continuations. The Anticipation of War in 2009- 2014 -- Appendix 1. The Cairo Agreement -- Appendix 2. The Doha Agreement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead, a politics of "no victor, no vanquished" was promoted, in which the political elite agreed simply to consign the war to the past. However, since then, Lebanon has found itself still entangled in various forms of political violence, from car bombings and assassinations to additional outbreaks of armed combat.In War Is Coming, Sami Hermez argues that the country's political leaders have enabled the continuation of violence and examines how people live between these periods of conflict. What do everyday conversations, practices, and experiences look like during these moments? How do people attempt to find a measure of certainty or stability in such times? Hermez's ethnographic study of everyday life in Lebanon between the volatile years of 2006 and 2009 tackles these questions and reveals how people engage in practices of recollecting past war while anticipating future turmoil. Hermez demonstrates just how social interactions and political relationships with the state unfold and critically engages our understanding of memory and violence, seeing in people's recollections living and spontaneous memories that refuse to forget the past. With an attention to the details of everyday life, War Is Coming shows how even a conversation over lunch, or among friends, may turn into a discussion about both past and future unrest.Shedding light on the impact of protracted conflict on people's everyday experiences and the way people anticipate political violence, Hermez highlights an urgency for alternative paths to sustaining political and social life in Lebanon.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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