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Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut

Autor Mohamad Hafeda
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 apr 2019
Drawing on innovative research into sectarian-political struggle in Beirut, Mohamad Hafeda shows how boundaries in a divided city are much more than simple physical divisions and reveals the ways in which city dwellers both experience them and subvert them in unexpected ways. Through research based on interviews, documentation of various media representations such as maps, visual imagery and gallery installations,Negotiating Conflict in Lebanonexposes the methods through which sectarian narratives are constructed - arguing for the need to question, deconstruct and transform these constructions. Hafeda expands upon the definition of bordering practice by considering artistic research as a critical spatial practice which allows self-reflection and transformation of border positions. This study offers an alternative view to the mainstream narratives of what is meant by a border, and provides insights, methods and lessons that may be applied to other cities around the world affected by conflict and political-sectarian segregation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781838603779
ISBN-10: 1838603778
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 106 colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Mohamad Hafeda is Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, Leeds Beckett University. He is co-founder of Febrik, a collaborative platform for art and design projects focussing on the dynamics of urban space, including refugee camps in the Middle East and marginal housing estates in London.

Cuprins

Introduction:Bordering Practices AdministrationBordering Practice 01: HidingThe Chosen Two SurveillanceBordering Practice 02: CrossingAt Her Balcony SoundBordering Practice 03: TranslatingThis is How Stories of Conflict Circulate and Resonate DisplacementBordering Practice 04: MatchingThe Twin Sisters are 'About to' Swap Houses Epilogue:Temporal Bordering Practices of Resistance EndnotesBibliographyList of FiguresList of InterviewsAcknowledgementsIndex

Recenzii

'A compelling work of powerful reportage, careful analysis, and creative disruptions through which Hafeda masterfully engages the visible and invisible borders of today's cities. Taking Beirut as his landscape of intervention, the artist-author trespasses disciplinary boundaries as he navigates the distance between scholarly and everyday voices, but also the defining lines between art and social sciences, the audio-visual and the textual, the researched and the researcher, the governed and the governing, history and now, public and private realms, and more. Each of the four provocations presented in the book deconstructs outmoded assumptions about sectarianism's immutability, unravelling instead the everyday mobilizations of historical and contemporary practices that sustain it. The outcome is an important contribution that implores us to think critically about the making and remaking of urban borders in today's world.'
'This book is an analytico-artisitic examination of what the author calls 'bordering practices'. Beside offering an interesting and provocative take on sectarianism and borders in Lebanon, the book is particularly useful to read for students of spatial practices from any discipline: reading it actually awakens the reader's spatio-sensory apparatuses, and sharpens one's appreciation of the various modes of experience pertaining to the spatial domain.'
'Beirut is a city shaped by the "chronic" experience of civil war and by political-sectarian conflicts that inscribe multiple borders onto the urban space. Mohamad Hafeda has been walking in that city for a long time, looking at the way in which people narrate and negotiate those borders. He has been working with residents and connecting artistic intervention and research to their tactical practices of resistance. The result is an amazing book.Negotiating Conflict in Lebanonis a book on Beirut but it has something to offer to anybody interested in borders and border struggles also elsewhere.'
'The question of marking territories and defining borders in the city of Beirut demands not only a distinct and complex approach, but also a considered and enduring level of engagement. Mohamad Hafeda's volume, detailing the nuances of his current site-specific and practice-led research projects, provides not only this level of commitment, it also offers a thoroughly engaging encounter with the profound social and political processes that determine how we negotiate conflict.'