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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hermez, Sami., author.

Series:

Ethnography of political violence.

The Ethnography of Political Violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence--Lebanon.

Political violence.

Political violence--Lebanon--Psychological aspects.

War and families--Lebanon.

War and families.

War and civilization--Lebanon.

War and civilization.

War and society--Lebanon.

War and society.

Political anthropology--Lebanon.

Political anthropology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations, map.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

PART I. Anticipation

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

PART II. Recollection

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017)

ISBN:

9780812224887

0812224884

OCLC:

969646213