For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers
written by Hiba Bou Akar, fl. 2011 (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018), 264 page(s)
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- Abstract / Summary
- Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. But with unclear state structures and outsourced public processes, urban planning has instead become a contest between religious-political organizations and profit-seeking developers. Neighborhoods reproduce poverty, displacement, and urban violence.For the War Yet to Come examines urban planning in three neighborhoods of Beirut's southeastern peripheries, revealing how these areas have been developed into frontiers of a continuing sectarian order. Hiba Bou Akar argues these neighborhoods are arranged, not in the expectation of a bright future, but according to the logic of "the war yet to come": urban planning plays on fears and differences, rumors of war, and paramilitary strategies to organize everyday life. As she shows, war in times of peace is not fought with tanks, artillery, and rifles, but involves a more mundane territorial contest for land and apartment sales, zoning and planning regulations, and infrastructure projects.
- Field of Interest
- Politics & Current Affairs
- Author
- Hiba Bou Akar, fl. 2011
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2018 Stanford University Press
- Content Type
- Book
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 264
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Place Published / Released
- Palo Alto, CA
- Subject
- Politics & Current Affairs, World History, Global Issues, Social Sciences, History, Political Geography, War and Violence, Religion and Belief Systems, Territorial Disputes, Violence and Repression, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria Borders, Religious differences, Religious communities, Urbanization, City planning, Geografia Política, Geografía Política, Guerra y Violencia, Guerra e Violência, Religião e Sistemas de Crença, Religión y Sistemas de Creencias, Las Disputas Territoriales, Disputas Territoriais, Beyrout, Bayrut, Beyrouth, Bayrut, Beirout, Bayrut, Beirut, Bayrut, Post Conflict Support, Urban Planning and Resiliency, Borders and Identity
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Geografia Política, Geografía Política, Guerra y Violencia, Guerra e Violência, Religião e Sistemas de Crença, Religión y Sistemas de Creencias, Las Disputas Territoriales, Disputas Territoriais, Beyrout, Bayrut, Beyrouth, Bayrut, Beirout, Bayrut
