Sune Haugbolle
Biographic Data
| ID | 191674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sune Haugbolle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sune |
| FAMILY NAME | Haugbolle |
| SIGNATURE | HAUGBOLLE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0094-1989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Neom/Nature: Regreening and Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Saudi Arabia
This article analyzes Saudi Arabia's regreening efforts through Neom, a conglomeration of urban development currently being built in the northwestern corner of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As one of several subsidiary organizations under Neom, Neom Nature aims to regreen and rewild an area roughly the size of Belgium. The project will serve as both a recreational space for Neom's estimated population of several millions and part of a wider regree…
Beyrouth, ville solidaire. Les intellectuels et la cause palestinienne, 1952-1975
Cet article analyse le rôle des intellectuels palestiniens à Beyrouth et leurs alliances et amitiés avec des militants solidaires européens, africains, asiatiques et américains pendant les années qui ont mené à la guerre civile. La ville de Beyrouth est souvent louée pour son âge d’or des années 1960, lorsqu’elle attirait les dissidents et libres penseurs de toute la région. Malgré la guerre, ce syncrétisme a perduré et s’est transformé durant la…
Beirut, City of Solidarity. The Intellectuals and the Palestinian Cause, 1952–1975
This article examines the role of Palestinian intellectuals in Beirut and their alliances and friendships with European, African, Asian, and American solidarity activists in the years leading up to the civil war. Beirut is often celebrated for its golden period in the 1960s when the city attracted dissidents and freethinkers from across the region. In fact, this syncretism lived on and transformed in the following decade, despite the war. While m…
Echoes of Solidarity in the Gaza Protests: A Review Essay about Rosemary Sayigh (ed.): Becoming Pro-Palestinian (I.B. Tauris 2024)
This article provides an overview of the historical development of Palestine solidarity globally since the 1960s and compares the historical evidence to today’s protest movement since the 7 October 2023 Gaza War. Through a reading of a recent collection of testimonies by activists worldwide, the article reflects on the historical coherence of the movement from the formation of the Palestinian liberation movements in the 1960s, the emergence of gl…
Global Palestine Solidarity and the Jewish Question
From its emergence in the late 1960s, global Palestine solidarity has had to defend itself from charges of antisemitism. Activists have responded with different strategies, ranging from rejection to admission and self-critique. Such strategies were often the result of deliberation with Palestinian revolutionaries. In this way, differently situated problem-spaces of ‘the Jewish Question’ – that of settler colonialism in Palestine and that of post-…
War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon, written by Yasmine Khayyat
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause
In the late 1960s, Palestine became an iconic signifier of solidarity and support for the Left, but also a transgressive tool that shaped and re-situated ideological positions at domestic levels. In this article, we attempt to answer why, how, and when this happened. Most research to date has stressed the global diplomatic offensive by the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization). Palestinian revolutionary thought and action are obviously the prim…
Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World
Building on Timothy Mitchell's seminal 1991 exploration of the "Limits of the State," this book brings together contributions on the state in the Arab world from the past and present in an edited volume. Altered States views the state less as a matter of people and institutions and more as sets of practices, regimes of truth, and capabilities of power, and the effects they have on those under their control. Through analysing case studies - includ…
Palestine Solidarity Conferences in the Global Sixties
This article maps the internationalization of the Palestinian cause by studying the participants, groups, and themes at Palestinian solidarity conferences held in 1969–70. Examining such conferences reveals the extent of communication and ideological debate between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and international solidarity activists at an important juncture in the internationalization of the Palestinian liberation movement. The arti…
Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World
Memory Studies in the Middle East: Where Are We Coming From and Where Are We Going
This article takes stock of the field of memory studies and where it has moved since the Arab uprisings. If the 1990s marked the first interest in memory studies, the 2000s opened the floodgates to a variety of approaches and localities. The aim is not to present a complete catalogue of memory studies in the Middle East, but rather to highlight some of the trends and patterns in the field and its development over time. It does so both by discussi…
Entanglement, Global History, and the Arab Left
During the heady 1960s and 1970s, a significant but understudied entanglement took place between the Arab Left and peers in other parts of the world. Arab revolutionary thinkers and political activists traveled to Europe, Latin America, and Africa, read “Euro-Marxist” theory, and generally took inspiration from the global New Left that was emerging from student protests and splinters from established Communist parties in many parts of the world. …
Anthropology and political ideology
This chapter advocates the recognition by political anthropology of the need to match analytically and conceptually the recent renaissance of ideology in the political world. The ‘webs of significance’ that connect human beings form political subjectivities in systemic ways. Political anthropology should shed light on ideologies as cognitive structures with legitimizing functions. Using the uprisings in the Middle East as of 2011, this chapter su…
The Impossible Revolution: Making sense of the Syrian tragedy
The new Arab left and 1967
In Arab political culture, the Naksa of 1967 had a number of watershed effects. Scholars have paid a lot of attention to the decline of secular Arab nationalism and the concurrent rise of Islamism. Much less research has been done on the way 1967 spurred radical left organizations, also known as ‘the new Arab left’, to organize resistance against Israel as well as gain a foothold in national politics. This article analyzes what 1967 meant for gro…
Commitment and Beyond: Reflections on/ of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s, written by Friederike Pannewick, Georges Khalil, and Yvonne Albers
The Ends of Revolution: Rethinking Ideology and Time in the Arab Uprisings
It is difficult to believe the level of disruption and despair that we are witnessing in the Middle East, from a broken Gaza, to a ruined Syria, a Yemen being bombed, a Libya in disintegration, and an Egypt on the slide toward state-centric fascism. These developments seem to be distantly removed from the days of Tahrir Square in early 2011, when people with elated spirits poured into the streets to demand a better political future. If the large-…
Den anden revolution: De arabiske opstande belyst af arabisk postmarxisme
Denne artikel analyserer arabiske marxistiske intellektuelles læsninger af de arabiske opstande siden 2011 og introducerer til arabisk postmarxisme forstået som social teori, der baserer sig på hele den brede familie af marxistiske teorier og traditioner men forholder sig kritisk til den. Artiklen trækker på Alain Badious undersøgelse af begivenhed, situation og spor. For rigtigt at forstå en begivenhed som de arabiske opstandes betydning, må nog…
Moving Through the Interregnum
This article analyzes the iconic Syrian writer and activist Yassin al-Haj Saleh. It analyzes the film Baladna al-rahib [Our Terrible Country] by Syrian filmmakers Muhammad Ali Atassi and Ziad Homsy as a way to explore current debates about revolution, exile and representation in Syria and the Middle East. Homsy and Atassi embrace and use Saleh’s stature as an iconic figure whose embodied meaning functions as an ‘aperture’ to a truth beyond his ow…
Spoils of Truce. Corruption and stat building in Postwar Lebanon
Review of Spoils of Truce. Corruption and stat building in Postwar Lebanon Reinoud Leenders Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8014-5100-3
Media, activism and the new political: ‘Istanbul conversations’ on new media and left politics
Conversations' was the first public event organized by the Social Science Research Council's Transregional Virtual Research Initiative (TVRI) on media, activism, and the new political.The TVRI brings together scholars from a range of disciplines and world regions to examine the interrelationship of media and politics within and across 'InterAsia', a spatially and historically networked expanse stretching from the Middle East through East Asia.In …
Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image
The power of images in contemporary Islamic societies
The Politics of Violence, Truth and Reconciliation in the Arab Middle East
1. Introduction: Outlines of a New Politics of Memory in the Middle East Sune Haugbolle and Anders Hastrup 2. 1948 After Oslo: Truth and Reconciliation in Palestinian Discourse Tom Hill 3. The Syndrome of One-Time Exceptions and the Drive to Establish the Proposed Hariri Court Muhamad Mugraby 4. Violating Darfur: The Emergent Truth of Categories Anders Hastrup 5. National Reconciliation and General Amnesty in Algeria George Joffe 6. Morocco: From…
Social Boundaries and Secularism in the Lebanese Left
This article explores the social meaning of boundaries in Lebanon through debates about secularism in and around the Lebanese Left. The aim is to elucidate the political and social meaning of ‘Left’ in a Lebanese context, and the positioning of liminal political subjectivity in a system organized along sectarian boundaries. Based on readings of debates about secularism in 1975 and 1976, the article proposes that the Left has since that year been …
The (Little) Militia Man
This article discusses how militiamen who fought in the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990) have been represented in Lebanese cultural production and how these militiamen relate to public discourse on masculinity and culpability in the postwar period. Through an analysis of interviews with former militiamen from the Lebanese press, an autobiographical novel, and a play about the war, this paper examines the link between debates about memory and respon…
The Ends of Revolution: Rethinking Ideology and Time in the Arab Uprisings
It is difficult to believe the level of disruption and despair that we are witnessing in the Middle East, from a broken Gaza, to a ruined Syria, a Yemen being bombed, a Libya in disintegration, and an Egypt on the slide toward state-centric fascism. These developments seem to be distantly removed from the days of Tahrir Square in early 2011, when people with elated spirits poured into the streets to demand a better political future. If the large-…
Public and Private Memory of the Lebanese Civil War
Research Article| May 01 2005 Public and Private Memory of the Lebanese Civil War Sune Haugbolle Sune Haugbolle Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 191–203. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sune Haugbolle; Public and Private Memory of the Lebanese Civil War. Comparati…
The new Arab left and 1967
In Arab political culture, the Naksa of 1967 had a number of watershed effects. Scholars have paid a lot of attention to the decline of secular Arab nationalism and the concurrent rise of Islamism. Much less research has been done on the way 1967 spurred radical left organizations, also known as ‘the new Arab left’, to organize resistance against Israel as well as gain a foothold in national politics. This article analyzes what 1967 meant for gro…
Memory Studies in the Middle East: Where Are We Coming From and Where Are We Going
This article takes stock of the field of memory studies and where it has moved since the Arab uprisings. If the 1990s marked the first interest in memory studies, the 2000s opened the floodgates to a variety of approaches and localities. The aim is not to present a complete catalogue of memory studies in the Middle East, but rather to highlight some of the trends and patterns in the field and its development over time. It does so both by discussi…
Social Boundaries and Secularism in the Lebanese Left
This article explores the social meaning of boundaries in Lebanon through debates about secularism in and around the Lebanese Left. The aim is to elucidate the political and social meaning of ‘Left’ in a Lebanese context, and the positioning of liminal political subjectivity in a system organized along sectarian boundaries. Based on readings of debates about secularism in 1975 and 1976, the article proposes that the Left has since that year been …
Introduction: Outlines of a New Politics of Memory in the Middle East
While the historical trajectories of emergent attempts to deal with legacies of political violence in the Arab Middle East differ widely, certain commonalities can help us understand this new field across the region. On the one hand, evidence presented in this volume suggests that grassroots movements have to some extent succeeded in ending the politics of pretence and denial that long dominated Arab states. On the other hand, particular politica…
Imprisonment, Truth Telling and Historical Memory in Syria
This article explores narratives of imprisonment in Syria and the implication of public narration of incarceration in the Arab Middle East more broadly. Since the late 1990s, ‘victim tales’ of Syrian political prisoners have become part of a counterculture against the present regime which calls for political reforms, an independent judiciary, free media and free and fair elections. This new focus on individual victimization corresponds to a trend…
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause
In the late 1960s, Palestine became an iconic signifier of solidarity and support for the Left, but also a transgressive tool that shaped and re-situated ideological positions at domestic levels. In this article, we attempt to answer why, how, and when this happened. Most research to date has stressed the global diplomatic offensive by the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization). Palestinian revolutionary thought and action are obviously the prim…
Palestine Solidarity Conferences in the Global Sixties
This article maps the internationalization of the Palestinian cause by studying the participants, groups, and themes at Palestinian solidarity conferences held in 1969–70. Examining such conferences reveals the extent of communication and ideological debate between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and international solidarity activists at an important juncture in the internationalization of the Palestinian liberation movement. The arti…
Entanglement, Global History, and the Arab Left
During the heady 1960s and 1970s, a significant but understudied entanglement took place between the Arab Left and peers in other parts of the world. Arab revolutionary thinkers and political activists traveled to Europe, Latin America, and Africa, read “Euro-Marxist” theory, and generally took inspiration from the global New Left that was emerging from student protests and splinters from established Communist parties in many parts of the world. …
The (Little) Militia Man
This article discusses how militiamen who fought in the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990) have been represented in Lebanese cultural production and how these militiamen relate to public discourse on masculinity and culpability in the postwar period. Through an analysis of interviews with former militiamen from the Lebanese press, an autobiographical novel, and a play about the war, this paper examines the link between debates about memory and respon…
Global Palestine Solidarity and the Jewish Question
From its emergence in the late 1960s, global Palestine solidarity has had to defend itself from charges of antisemitism. Activists have responded with different strategies, ranging from rejection to admission and self-critique. Such strategies were often the result of deliberation with Palestinian revolutionaries. In this way, differently situated problem-spaces of ‘the Jewish Question’ – that of settler colonialism in Palestine and that of post-…
Moving Through the Interregnum
This article analyzes the iconic Syrian writer and activist Yassin al-Haj Saleh. It analyzes the film Baladna al-rahib [Our Terrible Country] by Syrian filmmakers Muhammad Ali Atassi and Ziad Homsy as a way to explore current debates about revolution, exile and representation in Syria and the Middle East. Homsy and Atassi embrace and use Saleh’s stature as an iconic figure whose embodied meaning functions as an ‘aperture’ to a truth beyond his ow…
Public and Private Memory of the Lebanese Civil War
Research Article| May 01 2005 Public and Private Memory of the Lebanese Civil War Sune Haugbolle Sune Haugbolle Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 191–203. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sune Haugbolle; Public and Private Memory of the Lebanese Civil War. Comparati…
From A-lists to webtifadas: Developments in the Lebanese blogosphere 2005-2006
Witnessing the war that engulfed Lebanon in 2006 from the outside was disturbing and frustrating. In the midst of bombing and large-scale displacement of Lebanese civilians, information was hard to get. For people like me with friends and interest in Lebanon, the blogosphere soon became an indispensable addition to the daily dose of BBC and Lebanese media. Blogs simply became the medium of choice for many people outside of Lebanon who wanted to f…
That Joke isn’t Funny Anymore: Bass Mat Watan’s Nasrallah skit and the limits of laughter in Lebanon
Shafiqa was certainly not the kind of television host Lebanese viewers would expect to see interviewing a major political figure. Dressed as a woman and with a silly, effeminate voice a la Mickey Mouse, he was anything but the image of a serious TV presenter. So it would be all the more startling for Lebanese audiences to witness this newscaster host the most controversial political leader of them all: Hizbullah head Hassan Nasrallah. But this is…
Imprisonment, Truth Telling and Historical Memory in Syria
This article explores narratives of imprisonment in Syria and the implication of public narration of incarceration in the Arab Middle East more broadly. Since the late 1990s, ‘victim tales’ of Syrian political prisoners have become part of a counterculture against the present regime which calls for political reforms, an independent judiciary, free media and free and fair elections. This new focus on individual victimization corresponds to a trend…
Introduction: Outlines of a New Politics of Memory in the Middle East
While the historical trajectories of emergent attempts to deal with legacies of political violence in the Arab Middle East differ widely, certain commonalities can help us understand this new field across the region. On the one hand, evidence presented in this volume suggests that grassroots movements have to some extent succeeded in ending the politics of pretence and denial that long dominated Arab states. On the other hand, particular politica…
War and Memory in Lebanon
From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon endured one of the most protracted and bloody civil wars of the twentieth century. Sune Haugbolle's 2010 book chronicles the battle over ideas that emerged from the wreckage of that war. While the Lebanese state encouraged forgetfulness and political parties created sectarian interpretations of the war through cults of dead leaders, intellectuals and activists - inspired by the example of truth and reconciliation moveme…
The (Little) Militia Man
This article discusses how militiamen who fought in the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990) have been represented in Lebanese cultural production and how these militiamen relate to public discourse on masculinity and culpability in the postwar period. Through an analysis of interviews with former militiamen from the Lebanese press, an autobiographical novel, and a play about the war, this paper examines the link between debates about memory and respon…
Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image
The power of images in contemporary Islamic societies
The Politics of Violence, Truth and Reconciliation in the Arab Middle East
1. Introduction: Outlines of a New Politics of Memory in the Middle East Sune Haugbolle and Anders Hastrup 2. 1948 After Oslo: Truth and Reconciliation in Palestinian Discourse Tom Hill 3. The Syndrome of One-Time Exceptions and the Drive to Establish the Proposed Hariri Court Muhamad Mugraby 4. Violating Darfur: The Emergent Truth of Categories Anders Hastrup 5. National Reconciliation and General Amnesty in Algeria George Joffe 6. Morocco: From…
Social Boundaries and Secularism in the Lebanese Left
This article explores the social meaning of boundaries in Lebanon through debates about secularism in and around the Lebanese Left. The aim is to elucidate the political and social meaning of ‘Left’ in a Lebanese context, and the positioning of liminal political subjectivity in a system organized along sectarian boundaries. Based on readings of debates about secularism in 1975 and 1976, the article proposes that the Left has since that year been …
Spoils of Truce. Corruption and stat building in Postwar Lebanon
Review of Spoils of Truce. Corruption and stat building in Postwar Lebanon Reinoud Leenders Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8014-5100-3
Media, activism and the new political: ‘Istanbul conversations’ on new media and left politics
Conversations' was the first public event organized by the Social Science Research Council's Transregional Virtual Research Initiative (TVRI) on media, activism, and the new political.The TVRI brings together scholars from a range of disciplines and world regions to examine the interrelationship of media and politics within and across 'InterAsia', a spatially and historically networked expanse stretching from the Middle East through East Asia.In …
Den anden revolution: De arabiske opstande belyst af arabisk postmarxisme
Denne artikel analyserer arabiske marxistiske intellektuelles læsninger af de arabiske opstande siden 2011 og introducerer til arabisk postmarxisme forstået som social teori, der baserer sig på hele den brede familie af marxistiske teorier og traditioner men forholder sig kritisk til den. Artiklen trækker på Alain Badious undersøgelse af begivenhed, situation og spor. For rigtigt at forstå en begivenhed som de arabiske opstandes betydning, må nog…
Moving Through the Interregnum
This article analyzes the iconic Syrian writer and activist Yassin al-Haj Saleh. It analyzes the film Baladna al-rahib [Our Terrible Country] by Syrian filmmakers Muhammad Ali Atassi and Ziad Homsy as a way to explore current debates about revolution, exile and representation in Syria and the Middle East. Homsy and Atassi embrace and use Saleh’s stature as an iconic figure whose embodied meaning functions as an ‘aperture’ to a truth beyond his ow…
The new Arab left and 1967
In Arab political culture, the Naksa of 1967 had a number of watershed effects. Scholars have paid a lot of attention to the decline of secular Arab nationalism and the concurrent rise of Islamism. Much less research has been done on the way 1967 spurred radical left organizations, also known as ‘the new Arab left’, to organize resistance against Israel as well as gain a foothold in national politics. This article analyzes what 1967 meant for gro…
Commitment and Beyond: Reflections on/ of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s, written by Friederike Pannewick, Georges Khalil, and Yvonne Albers
The Ends of Revolution: Rethinking Ideology and Time in the Arab Uprisings
It is difficult to believe the level of disruption and despair that we are witnessing in the Middle East, from a broken Gaza, to a ruined Syria, a Yemen being bombed, a Libya in disintegration, and an Egypt on the slide toward state-centric fascism. These developments seem to be distantly removed from the days of Tahrir Square in early 2011, when people with elated spirits poured into the streets to demand a better political future. If the large-…
Anthropology and political ideology
This chapter advocates the recognition by political anthropology of the need to match analytically and conceptually the recent renaissance of ideology in the political world. The ‘webs of significance’ that connect human beings form political subjectivities in systemic ways. Political anthropology should shed light on ideologies as cognitive structures with legitimizing functions. Using the uprisings in the Middle East as of 2011, this chapter su…
The Impossible Revolution: Making sense of the Syrian tragedy
Memory Studies in the Middle East: Where Are We Coming From and Where Are We Going
This article takes stock of the field of memory studies and where it has moved since the Arab uprisings. If the 1990s marked the first interest in memory studies, the 2000s opened the floodgates to a variety of approaches and localities. The aim is not to present a complete catalogue of memory studies in the Middle East, but rather to highlight some of the trends and patterns in the field and its development over time. It does so both by discussi…
Entanglement, Global History, and the Arab Left
During the heady 1960s and 1970s, a significant but understudied entanglement took place between the Arab Left and peers in other parts of the world. Arab revolutionary thinkers and political activists traveled to Europe, Latin America, and Africa, read “Euro-Marxist” theory, and generally took inspiration from the global New Left that was emerging from student protests and splinters from established Communist parties in many parts of the world. …
Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World
Building on Timothy Mitchell's seminal 1991 exploration of the "Limits of the State," this book brings together contributions on the state in the Arab world from the past and present in an edited volume. Altered States views the state less as a matter of people and institutions and more as sets of practices, regimes of truth, and capabilities of power, and the effects they have on those under their control. Through analysing case studies - includ…
Palestine Solidarity Conferences in the Global Sixties
This article maps the internationalization of the Palestinian cause by studying the participants, groups, and themes at Palestinian solidarity conferences held in 1969–70. Examining such conferences reveals the extent of communication and ideological debate between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and international solidarity activists at an important juncture in the internationalization of the Palestinian liberation movement. The arti…
Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World
Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause
In the late 1960s, Palestine became an iconic signifier of solidarity and support for the Left, but also a transgressive tool that shaped and re-situated ideological positions at domestic levels. In this article, we attempt to answer why, how, and when this happened. Most research to date has stressed the global diplomatic offensive by the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization). Palestinian revolutionary thought and action are obviously the prim…
Political science (23 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (22 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Politics (16 works) · History (15 works) · Law (14 works) · History (10 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (10 works)