Mona Fawaz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 101203 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mona Fawaz |
| NOMBRES | Mona |
| APELLIDO | Fawaz |
| FIRMA | FAWAZ M |
| AFILIACIONES | American University of Beirut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7108-9909 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 155 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The ripples of housing financialization
Numerous cities in the Global South display the symptoms of housing financialization without the vehicles through which investment capital typically circulates toward the built environment. In this paper, we put forward the notion of “ripples of financialization” to point to the extension of the speculative practices engendered by financialized building practices well beyond the high-end developments in which global capital lands via banking tran…
Comment reconstruire le Liban ? De guerres en crises, un territoire face à des vagues de destruction
Mona Fawaz, professeure à l'Université américaine de Beyrouth, revient dans cet entretien sur les destructions qu'a subies le Liban à la fin de l'année 2024. Elle compare les événements récents avec d'autres vagues de destruction et analyse les changements des acteurs et des modèles de reconstruction du territoire. Entretien réalisé par Éric Verdeil le 15 décembre 2024. Le 8 octobre 2023, en réaction aux représailles d'Israël, puis à la guerre to…
Reflections on Critical Urban Studies in Perilous Times
Owning, inhabiting, and envisioning Beirut's ruins
Planning and Crisis, Planning in Crisis
How does a profession that prides itself on standing for the common good and working through action –not mere analysis or gesturing- demonstrate its effectiveness in a city devastated by intractable political, economic, financial, health, and social crises? In this essay, I dive into the current context of planning in Beirut (Lebanon) where I have been deeply engaged for decades. Recognizing that planning is deeply embedded in the making of the o…
Unplanned links, unanticipated outcomes
Much of the literature covering forced population displacement has neglected spatial implications, dealing with place as mere context. Building on a case study of the city of Halba (Lebanon) where it maps a process of contingent encounters through which disparate resources, individuals, and groups are stitched together to generate large-scale housing projects that shelter refugees, this paper demonstrates the importance of studying displacement t…
How the Covid-19 pandemic has shaped housing struggles in Lebanon
In this conversation two of our Editors (Ana and Michele) are encountering researchers and organisers from Lebanon to reflect around the struggle for housing in the midst of the pandemic. They are Mona Fawaz, Mona Harb, Karim Nammour, Farah Salka. In this conversation, we tackle issues of new and old forms of housing injustices, housing policy, old and emerging inequalities, as well as forms of organising against the increasing housing violence
For the War Yet to Come, Planning Beirut’s Frontiers
Mapping Covid-19 Governance in Lebanon
Many states, including Lebanon, have used the Covid-19 pandemic as an occasion to reassert their power and to consolidate their policing and repressive apparatuses. We are far from a seamless scenario, however. Rather than a mere reproduction of the sectarian political system, we argue in this paper that the governance of the pandemic in Lebanon reveals tensions between powerful political parties, weakened public agencies, as well as multiple sol…
A property framework for understanding gentrification
This paper explores the relationship between property and gentrification, building on a case study of the neighbourhood of Mar Mikhael (Beirut, Lebanon). First, we discuss the ways in which the distribution of property ownership shapes processes of displacement. We then investigate how property is made and reorganized through processes of gentrification, arguing that the mechanisms through which gentrification occurs in Mar Mikhael are intimately…
Exceptions and the actually existing practice of planning
Taking the provision of building permits as an entry point to its analysis, the paper documents the widespread practice of issuing ‘exceptions’ on which planning agencies in Beirut (Lebanon) frequently rely in their management of urban developments. The paper analyses ‘exceptions’ as a variable set of policy departures that take numerous forms (e.g. tolerance, concession, incentive), temporalities (before/after building), justifications (e.g. for…
Planning and the refugee crisis
The Politics of Property in Planning
This research looks at post-2006-war reconstruction of the southern suburbs of Beirut under the auspices of Hezbollah (the Islamic resistance movement in Lebanon). The project was widely acclaimed as an alternative to current neoliberal planning practices in the Middle East and beyond. Based on a critical reading of the conception of property issues in this planning project, the article argues that this reconstruction presents a new geometry or a…
Living Beirut's Security Zones
Over the past decade, security has gained enormous attention in the urban literature, reflecting its visibly increasing presence in cities worldwide. It is now widely acknowledged that security is a structuring force for cities both historically and now. Few scholars have however looked at the implications of security on the daily practices of urban dwellers. Based on extensive fieldwork during which we developed a street by street survey of secu…
Practicing (In)Security in the City
Hezbollah as Urban Planner? Questions To and From Planning Theory
Charara W., 1996, DAWLAT HEZBOLLAH; CLERC V, 1996, THESIS U PARIS 8 PAR; Davis DE, 2003, IRREGULAR ARMED FORC; DEBOULET A, 2006, WORLD C SOC DURB S A; FAWAZ M, 2007, ISIM REV FAL, P22; FAWAZ M, 2005, NGOS GOVERNANCE ARAB, P229; FAWAZ M, 2007, RECONSTRUCTION H HRE; Friedman J., 1987, PLANNING PUBLIC DOMA; GHANDOUR M, 2008, MIDDL E CTR C NEG SP; Hall P., 1988, CITIES TOMORROW; HARB M, HEZBOLLAH B IN PRESS; Harb M, 2005, THIRD WORLD Q, V26, P173, DO…
Contracts and Retaliation
The current housing policy paradigm supports the integration of informal settlements’ housing markets with the larger housing markets. Given, however, that housing production and exchange happen in a continuum of formal and informal processes, this article seeks to look at the effects of this integration on the conditions of housing acquisition for low-income urban dwellers. Based on a case study in Hayy el-Sellom (Beirut), the article traces the…
Neoliberal Urbanity and the Right to the City
Drawing on Lefebvre's theorization of space in order to examine the compatibility of neoliberalism and the right to the city, this study investigates how the formation of informal settlements since the 1950s had provided low-income dwellers in Beirut (Lebanon) a means to conceive of and engage in city making (neighbourhood production, management, and organization) at a time when state regulations and/or market constraints would have excluded them…
An Unusual Clique of City-Makers
This article documents the early development of an informal settlement in Beirut (Lebanon) through the trajectories of the developers who participated in its production, looking specifically at the role that social networks played in the process. Drawing primarily on the methodological approach developed by Pierre Bourdieu, my analysis reveals that social networks play a central role as conduits for developers to access the necessary housing ingr…
Living Beirut's Security Zones
Over the past decade, security has gained enormous attention in the urban literature, reflecting its visibly increasing presence in cities worldwide. It is now widely acknowledged that security is a structuring force for cities both historically and now. Few scholars have however looked at the implications of security on the daily practices of urban dwellers. Based on extensive fieldwork during which we developed a street by street survey of secu…
Neoliberal Urbanity and the Right to the City
Drawing on Lefebvre's theorization of space in order to examine the compatibility of neoliberalism and the right to the city, this study investigates how the formation of informal settlements since the 1950s had provided low-income dwellers in Beirut (Lebanon) a means to conceive of and engage in city making (neighbourhood production, management, and organization) at a time when state regulations and/or market constraints would have excluded them…
Planning and the refugee crisis
The Politics of Property in Planning
This research looks at post-2006-war reconstruction of the southern suburbs of Beirut under the auspices of Hezbollah (the Islamic resistance movement in Lebanon). The project was widely acclaimed as an alternative to current neoliberal planning practices in the Middle East and beyond. Based on a critical reading of the conception of property issues in this planning project, the article argues that this reconstruction presents a new geometry or a…
Contracts and Retaliation
The current housing policy paradigm supports the integration of informal settlements’ housing markets with the larger housing markets. Given, however, that housing production and exchange happen in a continuum of formal and informal processes, this article seeks to look at the effects of this integration on the conditions of housing acquisition for low-income urban dwellers. Based on a case study in Hayy el-Sellom (Beirut), the article traces the…
An Unusual Clique of City-Makers
This article documents the early development of an informal settlement in Beirut (Lebanon) through the trajectories of the developers who participated in its production, looking specifically at the role that social networks played in the process. Drawing primarily on the methodological approach developed by Pierre Bourdieu, my analysis reveals that social networks play a central role as conduits for developers to access the necessary housing ingr…
Hezbollah as Urban Planner? Questions To and From Planning Theory
Charara W., 1996, DAWLAT HEZBOLLAH; CLERC V, 1996, THESIS U PARIS 8 PAR; Davis DE, 2003, IRREGULAR ARMED FORC; DEBOULET A, 2006, WORLD C SOC DURB S A; FAWAZ M, 2007, ISIM REV FAL, P22; FAWAZ M, 2005, NGOS GOVERNANCE ARAB, P229; FAWAZ M, 2007, RECONSTRUCTION H HRE; Friedman J., 1987, PLANNING PUBLIC DOMA; GHANDOUR M, 2008, MIDDL E CTR C NEG SP; Hall P., 1988, CITIES TOMORROW; HARB M, HEZBOLLAH B IN PRESS; Harb M, 2005, THIRD WORLD Q, V26, P173, DO…
Exceptions and the actually existing practice of planning
Taking the provision of building permits as an entry point to its analysis, the paper documents the widespread practice of issuing ‘exceptions’ on which planning agencies in Beirut (Lebanon) frequently rely in their management of urban developments. The paper analyses ‘exceptions’ as a variable set of policy departures that take numerous forms (e.g. tolerance, concession, incentive), temporalities (before/after building), justifications (e.g. for…
Practicing (In)Security in the City
Mapping Covid-19 Governance in Lebanon
Many states, including Lebanon, have used the Covid-19 pandemic as an occasion to reassert their power and to consolidate their policing and repressive apparatuses. We are far from a seamless scenario, however. Rather than a mere reproduction of the sectarian political system, we argue in this paper that the governance of the pandemic in Lebanon reveals tensions between powerful political parties, weakened public agencies, as well as multiple sol…
Unplanned links, unanticipated outcomes
Much of the literature covering forced population displacement has neglected spatial implications, dealing with place as mere context. Building on a case study of the city of Halba (Lebanon) where it maps a process of contingent encounters through which disparate resources, individuals, and groups are stitched together to generate large-scale housing projects that shelter refugees, this paper demonstrates the importance of studying displacement t…
Reflections on Critical Urban Studies in Perilous Times
A property framework for understanding gentrification
This paper explores the relationship between property and gentrification, building on a case study of the neighbourhood of Mar Mikhael (Beirut, Lebanon). First, we discuss the ways in which the distribution of property ownership shapes processes of displacement. We then investigate how property is made and reorganized through processes of gentrification, arguing that the mechanisms through which gentrification occurs in Mar Mikhael are intimately…
Planning and Crisis, Planning in Crisis
How does a profession that prides itself on standing for the common good and working through action –not mere analysis or gesturing- demonstrate its effectiveness in a city devastated by intractable political, economic, financial, health, and social crises? In this essay, I dive into the current context of planning in Beirut (Lebanon) where I have been deeply engaged for decades. Recognizing that planning is deeply embedded in the making of the o…
An Unusual Clique of City-Makers
This article documents the early development of an informal settlement in Beirut (Lebanon) through the trajectories of the developers who participated in its production, looking specifically at the role that social networks played in the process. Drawing primarily on the methodological approach developed by Pierre Bourdieu, my analysis reveals that social networks play a central role as conduits for developers to access the necessary housing ingr…
Hezbollah as Urban Planner? Questions To and From Planning Theory
Charara W., 1996, DAWLAT HEZBOLLAH; CLERC V, 1996, THESIS U PARIS 8 PAR; Davis DE, 2003, IRREGULAR ARMED FORC; DEBOULET A, 2006, WORLD C SOC DURB S A; FAWAZ M, 2007, ISIM REV FAL, P22; FAWAZ M, 2005, NGOS GOVERNANCE ARAB, P229; FAWAZ M, 2007, RECONSTRUCTION H HRE; Friedman J., 1987, PLANNING PUBLIC DOMA; GHANDOUR M, 2008, MIDDL E CTR C NEG SP; Hall P., 1988, CITIES TOMORROW; HARB M, HEZBOLLAH B IN PRESS; Harb M, 2005, THIRD WORLD Q, V26, P173, DO…
Contracts and Retaliation
The current housing policy paradigm supports the integration of informal settlements’ housing markets with the larger housing markets. Given, however, that housing production and exchange happen in a continuum of formal and informal processes, this article seeks to look at the effects of this integration on the conditions of housing acquisition for low-income urban dwellers. Based on a case study in Hayy el-Sellom (Beirut), the article traces the…
Neoliberal Urbanity and the Right to the City
Drawing on Lefebvre's theorization of space in order to examine the compatibility of neoliberalism and the right to the city, this study investigates how the formation of informal settlements since the 1950s had provided low-income dwellers in Beirut (Lebanon) a means to conceive of and engage in city making (neighbourhood production, management, and organization) at a time when state regulations and/or market constraints would have excluded them…
Living Beirut's Security Zones
Over the past decade, security has gained enormous attention in the urban literature, reflecting its visibly increasing presence in cities worldwide. It is now widely acknowledged that security is a structuring force for cities both historically and now. Few scholars have however looked at the implications of security on the daily practices of urban dwellers. Based on extensive fieldwork during which we developed a street by street survey of secu…
Practicing (In)Security in the City
The Politics of Property in Planning
This research looks at post-2006-war reconstruction of the southern suburbs of Beirut under the auspices of Hezbollah (the Islamic resistance movement in Lebanon). The project was widely acclaimed as an alternative to current neoliberal planning practices in the Middle East and beyond. Based on a critical reading of the conception of property issues in this planning project, the article argues that this reconstruction presents a new geometry or a…
Planning and the refugee crisis
Exceptions and the actually existing practice of planning
Taking the provision of building permits as an entry point to its analysis, the paper documents the widespread practice of issuing ‘exceptions’ on which planning agencies in Beirut (Lebanon) frequently rely in their management of urban developments. The paper analyses ‘exceptions’ as a variable set of policy departures that take numerous forms (e.g. tolerance, concession, incentive), temporalities (before/after building), justifications (e.g. for…
A property framework for understanding gentrification
This paper explores the relationship between property and gentrification, building on a case study of the neighbourhood of Mar Mikhael (Beirut, Lebanon). First, we discuss the ways in which the distribution of property ownership shapes processes of displacement. We then investigate how property is made and reorganized through processes of gentrification, arguing that the mechanisms through which gentrification occurs in Mar Mikhael are intimately…
How the Covid-19 pandemic has shaped housing struggles in Lebanon
In this conversation two of our Editors (Ana and Michele) are encountering researchers and organisers from Lebanon to reflect around the struggle for housing in the midst of the pandemic. They are Mona Fawaz, Mona Harb, Karim Nammour, Farah Salka. In this conversation, we tackle issues of new and old forms of housing injustices, housing policy, old and emerging inequalities, as well as forms of organising against the increasing housing violence
For the War Yet to Come, Planning Beirut’s Frontiers
Mapping Covid-19 Governance in Lebanon
Many states, including Lebanon, have used the Covid-19 pandemic as an occasion to reassert their power and to consolidate their policing and repressive apparatuses. We are far from a seamless scenario, however. Rather than a mere reproduction of the sectarian political system, we argue in this paper that the governance of the pandemic in Lebanon reveals tensions between powerful political parties, weakened public agencies, as well as multiple sol…
Unplanned links, unanticipated outcomes
Much of the literature covering forced population displacement has neglected spatial implications, dealing with place as mere context. Building on a case study of the city of Halba (Lebanon) where it maps a process of contingent encounters through which disparate resources, individuals, and groups are stitched together to generate large-scale housing projects that shelter refugees, this paper demonstrates the importance of studying displacement t…
Planning and Crisis, Planning in Crisis
How does a profession that prides itself on standing for the common good and working through action –not mere analysis or gesturing- demonstrate its effectiveness in a city devastated by intractable political, economic, financial, health, and social crises? In this essay, I dive into the current context of planning in Beirut (Lebanon) where I have been deeply engaged for decades. Recognizing that planning is deeply embedded in the making of the o…
Comment reconstruire le Liban ? De guerres en crises, un territoire face à des vagues de destruction
Mona Fawaz, professeure à l'Université américaine de Beyrouth, revient dans cet entretien sur les destructions qu'a subies le Liban à la fin de l'année 2024. Elle compare les événements récents avec d'autres vagues de destruction et analyse les changements des acteurs et des modèles de reconstruction du territoire. Entretien réalisé par Éric Verdeil le 15 décembre 2024. Le 8 octobre 2023, en réaction aux représailles d'Israël, puis à la guerre to…
Reflections on Critical Urban Studies in Perilous Times
Owning, inhabiting, and envisioning Beirut's ruins
The ripples of housing financialization
Numerous cities in the Global South display the symptoms of housing financialization without the vehicles through which investment capital typically circulates toward the built environment. In this paper, we put forward the notion of “ripples of financialization” to point to the extension of the speculative practices engendered by financialized building practices well beyond the high-end developments in which global capital lands via banking tran…
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