Lucia Volk
Biographic Data
| ID | 186052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucia Volk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucia |
| FAMILY NAME | Volk |
| SIGNATURE | VOLK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-2003-2600 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria, by Billie Jeanne Brownlee
Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees: Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America
Enacting Citizenship: A Case Study of a Syrian Refugee Protest in Germany
In June and July 2015, a group of Syrian asylum seekers and local refugee supporters organised a protest camp in Dortmund, Germany. For 53 days, about 50 protesters at a time slept under open tarps on the pavement in front of the city’s main train station, demanding a quicker asylum review process and reunification with their families. This article focusses on the refugees’ interactions with different state actors on the municipal and state level…
Reports
Publications Korangy, A., Al-Samman, H. and Beard, M. (eds), The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures: The Culture of Love and Languishing (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018). Conferences ‘(Un)Settling Middle Eastern Refugees’ (Yale University, September 2019)
Memory Politics in Lebanon a Generation after the Civil War
The Middle East in the World: An Introduction
The Middle East in the World offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the broader Middle East. After a brief introduction to the study of the region, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of Middle Eastern history; important historical narratives; and the region's languages, religions, and global connections. Students are guided through the material with relevant maps, resource boxes, and text boxes …
Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer
Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon
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The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai by Mary E. Hancock
Martyrs at the Margins: The Politics of Neglect in Lebanon's Borderlands
Events in Lebanon are primarily interpreted through the lens of sectarianism and religious difference. Yet if we look at Lebanon through the lens of politics of space, significant similarities emerge among populations that are otherwise considered different. For instance, communities in Lebanon's geographical borderlands are home to disproportionate numbers of martyrs. As a result of a policy of neglect by elites at Lebanon's political centre, co…
Kull wahad la haalu: Feelings of Isolation and Distress among Yemeni Immigrant Women in San Francisco's Tenderloin
Recently arrived Yemeni immigrant women in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood face a series of challenges as they go about living their everyday lives in a poor and crime-ridden neighborhood. They experience feelings of isolation and distress because of their limited English skills, their conservative Islamic dress that draws comments and unfriendly looks, and their household chores as mothers of often large families, which keep them busy at…
When Memory Repeats Itself: The Politics of Heritage in Post Civil War Lebanon
On 4 August 2005 the Lebanese English-language paper the Daily Star reported that Lebanon's ancient inscriptions at Nahr al-Kalb had been accepted into the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO’s) collection of “worldwide rare documents” through its Memory of the World Programme. UNESCO established the Memory of the World Programme in 1992, after realizing that its World Heritage Programme, which seeks to prot…
La construction d’une identité d’après-guerre parmi la jeunesse bourgeoise de Beyrouth: Grandir à la croisée des espaces culturels
Martyrs at the Margins: The Politics of Neglect in Lebanon's Borderlands
Events in Lebanon are primarily interpreted through the lens of sectarianism and religious difference. Yet if we look at Lebanon through the lens of politics of space, significant similarities emerge among populations that are otherwise considered different. For instance, communities in Lebanon's geographical borderlands are home to disproportionate numbers of martyrs. As a result of a policy of neglect by elites at Lebanon's political centre, co…
When Memory Repeats Itself: The Politics of Heritage in Post Civil War Lebanon
On 4 August 2005 the Lebanese English-language paper the Daily Star reported that Lebanon's ancient inscriptions at Nahr al-Kalb had been accepted into the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO’s) collection of “worldwide rare documents” through its Memory of the World Programme. UNESCO established the Memory of the World Programme in 1992, after realizing that its World Heritage Programme, which seeks to prot…
Kull wahad la haalu: Feelings of Isolation and Distress among Yemeni Immigrant Women in San Francisco's Tenderloin
Recently arrived Yemeni immigrant women in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood face a series of challenges as they go about living their everyday lives in a poor and crime-ridden neighborhood. They experience feelings of isolation and distress because of their limited English skills, their conservative Islamic dress that draws comments and unfriendly looks, and their household chores as mothers of often large families, which keep them busy at…
Enacting Citizenship: A Case Study of a Syrian Refugee Protest in Germany
In June and July 2015, a group of Syrian asylum seekers and local refugee supporters organised a protest camp in Dortmund, Germany. For 53 days, about 50 protesters at a time slept under open tarps on the pavement in front of the city’s main train station, demanding a quicker asylum review process and reunification with their families. This article focusses on the refugees’ interactions with different state actors on the municipal and state level…
La construction d’une identité d’après-guerre parmi la jeunesse bourgeoise de Beyrouth: Grandir à la croisée des espaces culturels
When Memory Repeats Itself: The Politics of Heritage in Post Civil War Lebanon
On 4 August 2005 the Lebanese English-language paper the Daily Star reported that Lebanon's ancient inscriptions at Nahr al-Kalb had been accepted into the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO’s) collection of “worldwide rare documents” through its Memory of the World Programme. UNESCO established the Memory of the World Programme in 1992, after realizing that its World Heritage Programme, which seeks to prot…
Martyrs at the Margins: The Politics of Neglect in Lebanon's Borderlands
Events in Lebanon are primarily interpreted through the lens of sectarianism and religious difference. Yet if we look at Lebanon through the lens of politics of space, significant similarities emerge among populations that are otherwise considered different. For instance, communities in Lebanon's geographical borderlands are home to disproportionate numbers of martyrs. As a result of a policy of neglect by elites at Lebanon's political centre, co…
Kull wahad la haalu: Feelings of Isolation and Distress among Yemeni Immigrant Women in San Francisco's Tenderloin
Recently arrived Yemeni immigrant women in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood face a series of challenges as they go about living their everyday lives in a poor and crime-ridden neighborhood. They experience feelings of isolation and distress because of their limited English skills, their conservative Islamic dress that draws comments and unfriendly looks, and their household chores as mothers of often large families, which keep them busy at…
Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon
Like the Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa series page on Facebook
The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai by Mary E. Hancock
Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer
The Middle East in the World: An Introduction
The Middle East in the World offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the broader Middle East. After a brief introduction to the study of the region, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of Middle Eastern history; important historical narratives; and the region's languages, religions, and global connections. Students are guided through the material with relevant maps, resource boxes, and text boxes …
Memory Politics in Lebanon a Generation after the Civil War
Reports
Publications Korangy, A., Al-Samman, H. and Beard, M. (eds), The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures: The Culture of Love and Languishing (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018). Conferences ‘(Un)Settling Middle Eastern Refugees’ (Yale University, September 2019)
Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees: Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America
Enacting Citizenship: A Case Study of a Syrian Refugee Protest in Germany
In June and July 2015, a group of Syrian asylum seekers and local refugee supporters organised a protest camp in Dortmund, Germany. For 53 days, about 50 protesters at a time slept under open tarps on the pavement in front of the city’s main train station, demanding a quicker asylum review process and reunification with their families. This article focusses on the refugees’ interactions with different state actors on the municipal and state level…
New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria, by Billie Jeanne Brownlee
History (8 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (8 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (8 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Media studies (5 works)