Sari Hanafi
Biographic Data
| ID | 273348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sari Hanafi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sari |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanafi |
| SIGNATURE | HANAFI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Beirut |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6953-6266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 350 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Partial Practical Secularization from Below as a Soft Yet Unhappy Process
This article challenges conventional understandings of secularization in the Arab world by arguing that significant forms of secularization can emerge even in the absence of institutional secularism. Drawing on data from the Religion in Public Life survey, conducted in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Tunisia with approximately 5400 respondents, the study develops the concept of partial practical secularization from below. Rather than focusing on stat…
Une critique du libéralisme symbolique: Réflexions à partir de la Palestine
Les salons se sont développés en France dans l’après-guerre pour rassembler, à intervalles réguliers, les professionnels d’un même secteur. Parmi eux, les salons internationaux constituent un observatoire socio-historique original de la mondialisation. Loin d’une ouverture graduelle au commerce international, leurs organisateurs ont vécu un basculement conflictuel au cours des années 1980 : la « guerre des salons ». Jusque-là structurés autour de…
Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology
Societal polarization, academic freedom, and the promise of dialogical sociology
In my recent work, I argued that the bulk of the responses of the social sciences to the pathologies of late modernity was defined as being classically liberal but politically illiberal —I call this peculiar combination “Symbolic Liberalism.” Corollary to that, we witness a hierarchical polarization in various societies, manifested by the widening of the space between different elites. It is present everywhere including in university campuses and…
On academic freedom in the time of symbolic liberalism: Reflections on the debate
This article responds to seven scholarly commentaries on my original piece, Societal Polarization, Academic Freedom, and the Promise of Dialogical Sociology. I engage with key critiques through four themes: conceptual frameworks, contestation of data, societal intolerance, and Zionism, concluding with a call to confront increasing societal intolerance. I defend the utility of terms like cancel culture and symbolic liberalism, the latter describin…
Sari Hanafi, corresponsal de la Remi en Líbano
Este artículo se propone examinar la recepción y el tratamiento editorial de una serie de propuestas de artículos procedentes del Sur Global por parte de la Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales (Revista Europea de Migraciones Internacionales —REMI). Desde una perspectiva empírica, el análisis se basa en la totalidad de propuestas recibidas en la sección varia durante los años 2018 y 2019 y en los informes de revisión por pares. A parti…
Sari Hanafi, Remi Correspondent in Lebanon
Recapturing the Research Enterprise as a Collective Responsibility: The View from the Middle East & North Africa
Drawing on the essays in this volume of Dædalus, as well as remena (Research Ethics in the Middle East and North Africa) workshops and meetings over the last several years, we reflect on what constitutes responsible social inquiry. We present the context for a “call to action” for universities, foundations, and other funders, publishers, and researchers. Through procedural, professional, and political recommendations, we offer guidance to address…
Sari Hanafi, correspondant de la Remi au Liban
The dialogic society: The sociology scientists and citizens like and use
Bilginin İslamileştirilmesi”nin Önculuğunden Yaygınlaştırılmasına, Malezya Uluslararası İslam Üniversitesi Örneği
1983 yılında kurulan Uluslararası İslam Üniversitesi Malezya (IIUM), “Bilginin İslamileştirilmesi” (Bİ) projesi için bir laboratuvar olmuştur. IIUM’nin teorik modellerini ve pratik uygulamalarını ele alan bu makalede, “Bİ” paradigmasına öncülük eden öğretim üyelerineslinden, onu yaygınlaştırmaya çalışan yeni nesle geçiş ortaya koyulmaktadır. Amaç, Makâsıdü’ş-Şerîa’nın kullanılmasıyla bu geçişin mümkün kılındığını, ancak yine de söz konusu geçişin…
Beyond “Academia”: Disseminating Knowledge in the Arab World
In recent years, the rise of the knowledge economy has paved the way for a change in the dynamics of knowledge production. This has been translated into two contradictory trends: (1) the commodification of knowledge production and (2) connecting social sciences to society, necessitating that academics go beyond their traditional role of teaching and research to engage wider publics in contemporary critical debates. Based on a survey of grantees o…
The transformation of the discourse on secularism/the civil state in arab academic writings post arab spring
Since the start of the Arab Spring, no topic has been more polarizing to elites than secularism, the civil state, and political Islam. In this article, I will analyze the academic literature written by researchers and sometimes political activists in journals published in the Arab world on this topic. I will conduct a quantitative (bibliometric) and qualitative analysis of this literature (149 articles), in order to try to answer the following qu…
Dina Kiwan, Academic Freedom and the Transnational Production of Knowledge
Vers une sociologie dialogique
Dans le premier quart du XXI e siècle, les pathologies de la modernité tardive se révèlent de plus en plus simultanées : 1) émergence de l'autoritarisme au Sud, et populisme de droite au Nord qui gagne du terrain année après année ; 2) tendances croissantes à l'inégalité, à la précarité et à l'exclusion ; 3) polarisations sociales hiérarchiques qui émergent dans de plus en plus de sociétés. Comment les sciences sociales, et en particulier la soci…
Factoring religion in the time of symbolic liberalism: Some reflections on secularism and sexuality
In my recent work, I argued that a bulk of the responses of the social sciences and/or sociology to the pathologies of late modernity have been defined as being classically liberal but politically illiberal-I call this peculiar combination 'Symbolic Liberalism'. Empowered by emotional and neoliberal capitalism, this kind of liberalism seeks to impose a hegemonic and deculturised conception of the good. In this article, I will focus on the consequ…
Toward a dialogical sociology: Presidential address - XX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2023
In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, the entangled pathologies of late modernity are increasingly revealing themselves in a simultaneous: (1) emergence of authoritarianism in the South and Right populism in the North that is gaining momentum year after year; (2) rising trends of inequality, precarity, and exclusion; and (3) hierarchical social polarizations are emerging in more and more societies. How do, and how should, the social s…
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East
The sociology of the Middle East has been an expanding field of inquiry since the aftermath of World War II, when phenomena as diverse as urbanization, internal and international migration, and peasant societies attracted the attention of scholars working on the region. The Middle East became central in key sociological debates on modernization theory and the critical responses. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East connects thi…
Understanding revolutions: About the trilogy of Azmi Bishara
Influential in his writing about the Arab Spring, Azmi Bishara delivers a trilogy about the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria which was first published in Arabic and then translated with some updates to English. while theoretically grounded, they are the outcome of extensive research and documentation of everyday events in these three countries and a reflection on the heated debates in the Arab world. Using a democratic transition theory pe…
Studying Islam in the Arab World: The Rupture Between Religion and the Social Sciences
Addressing the rupture between religious and social sciences in Arab universities, this book provides a critical assessment of the curricula of Shariah and Islamic Studies departments across the Arab World, arguing for increased interdisciplinary dialogue. Based on over 250 interviews with university students and teachers, this study is the sum of five years of field research observing the curricula and teaching styles of colleges in the Shariah …
Pour une « sociologie globale »: Entretien avec Sari Hanafi
Professeur de sociologie à l'Université américaine de Beyrouth, Sari Hanafi préside depuis 2018 l’International Sociological Association (ISA) et a été vice-président du Conseil arabe pour les Sciences Sociales.Ses analyses s’inscrivent dans différents domaines : la sociologie des migrations, la sociologie politique, la politique de la recherche, et la sociologie des religions. Au regard du sujet du présent numéro, les travaux qu’il a menés sur l…
Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East
The Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Looking for a Convivial Habitat
The Syrian crisis has caused one of the greatest episodes of forced displacement since World War II and some of the densest refugee-hosting situations in modern history. Lebanon has hosted more than 1 million Syrian refugees. This article is based on a large multisectoral survey of Syrian refugees’ households in Bekaa, conducted by the Union of Relief and Development Associations (URDA) in the period 2016–17 with a total of 1614 households and 61…
The future of human behaviour research
From Streamlining to Mainstreaming “Islamization of Knowledge”: The Case of the International Islamic University of Malaysia
Founded in 1983, the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) has been a laboratory of “Islamization of Human Knowledge” (IoK). Looking at theoretical models and practical applications of IIUM, this article unfolds the passage from a generation of faculty who established the “IoK” paradigm in order to streamline it, to a new generation that seeks to mainstream it. The aim is to show that this transition has been made possible due to th…
Governance, Governmentalities, and the State of Exception in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Lebanon
Based upon data collected from four focus groups, this paper examines life in the Nahr al-Bared, Beddawi, and ‘Ayn al-Hilweh refugee camps in Lebanon from a governance perspective. The authors contend that a lack of legitimate governance structures in the camps has inhibited the improvement of socio-economic and living conditions for the residents and jeopardized the security of Palestinians and Lebanese alike. The authors discuss the history of …
University systems in the Arab East: Publish globally and perish locally vs publish locally and perish globally
This article attempts to demonstrate how the university system and the system of social knowledge production greatly influence elite formation in the Arab East (in Egypt, Syria, the Palestinian territory, Jordan and Lebanon) by focusing on three intertwined factors: compartmentalization of scholarly activities, the demise of the university as a public sphere and the criteria for publication that count towards promotion. Universities have often pr…
Spacio-cide: Colonial politics, invisibility and rezoning in Palestinian territory
In the last two decades, the Arab–Israeli conflict has been considered a ‘low intensity’ conflict, based on a typology which simply takes into account the number of casualties. This typology is misleading, since despite relatively low numbers of casualties, on other counts the conflict may be seen to be in the process of intensification. In particular, a key area that has been gaining relevance is related to space and land: dispossession, occupat…
Explaining spacio-cide in the Palestinian territory: Colonization, separation, and state of exception
This article argues that the Israeli colonial project is 'spacio-cidal' (as opposed to genocidal) in that it targets land for the purpose of rendering inevitable the 'voluntary' transfer of the Palestinian population primarily by targeting the space upon which the Palestinian people live. The spacio-cide is a deliberate ideology with unified rational, albeit dynamic process because it is in constant interaction with the emerging context and the a…
Global sociology revisited: Toward new directions
As newly elected President of the International Sociological Association, I unfold my vision for new directions for global sociology. After defining what a global sociology is, I will point out two particular directions for this sociology: supplementing the postcolonial approach with an anti-authoritarian one, and theorizing post-secular society. One cannot but acknowledge the scars of the colonial era, but postcolonial studies have been rightly …
The Arab revolutions; the emergence of a new political subjectivity
Since late 2010, the Arab World has witnessed regime changes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya; and revolts by Arab citizens are still underway in Syria, Bahrain and Yemen, along with reform initiatives at different levels. These processes cannot be accurately be described by Orientalist terms such as ‘Arab Spring’, ‘Arab unrest’ or the ‘Facebook Revolution’, where such categorizations fail to account for the radical transformation in politics and valu…
Civil Society and Peacebuilding: A Critical Assessment
Responding to the burgeoning interest in the role of civil society in peace processes, this groundbreaking collaborative effort identifies the constructive functions of civil society in support of peacebuilding both during and in the aftermath of armed conflict. The authors also highlight the factors that support those functions and the obstacles to their fulfillment. A comprehensive analytical framework is applied to 11 country cases, not only a…
Reshaping Geography: Palestinian Community Networks in Europe and the New Media
The continuing difficulty of finding a solution to the physical return of the Palestinian diaspora to the homeland is increasingly being addressed in the digital realm by the rise of virtual communities. PALESTA (Palestinian Scientists and Technologists Aboard) was established to harness the scientific and technological knowledge of expatriate professionals for the benefit of development efforts in Palestine. This paper will discuss both the poss…
The Intifada and the Aid Industry: The Impact of the New Liberal Agenda on the Palestinian NGOs
Research Article| August 01 2003 The Intifada and the Aid Industry: The Impact of the New Liberal Agenda on the Palestinian NGOs SARI HANAFI; SARI HANAFI Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google LINDA TABAR LINDA TABAR Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 205–214. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-205 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
Social Exclusion of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Reflections on the Mechanisms that Cement their Persistent Poverty
Journal Article Social Exclusion of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Reflections on the Mechanisms that Cement their Persistent Poverty Get access Sari Hanafi, Sari Hanafi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jad Chaaban, Jad Chaaban Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Karin Seyfert Karin Seyfert * * American University of Beirut (AUB). The article draws upon a national Soci…
The marginalization of the Arab language in social science: Structural constraints and dependency by choice
This article aims at questioning the relationship between Arab social research and language by arguing that many factors including the political economy of publication, globalization, internationalization and commodification of higher education have marginalized peripheral languages such as Arabic. The authors demonstrate, on the one hand, that this marginalization is not necessarily structurally inevitable but indicates dependency by choice, and…
(In)Security and Reconstruction in Post-conflict Nahr al-Barid Refugee Camp
Testing a New Paradigm: UNRWA's Camp Improvement Programme
The article will critically reflect on recently launched Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Programme of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) – an initiative that still remains at a pilot stage, yet bears the potential to radically overhaul the agency’s approach to prioritizing and delivering services, its relationship to refugee communities and its engagement with the physical, social and cultur…
Who frames the debate on the Arab uprisings? Analysis of Arabic, English, and French academic scholarship
Since 2010, there has been a proliferation of literature (newspaper articles and scholarly publications) on the recent uprisings in some Arab countries. This article focuses on the way the academic articles have perceived the Arab uprisings and the ways in which we portray them in scientific discourse, taking into account the social forces that come into play in the production of knowledge. In line with Bruno Latour, this study analyzes (1) what …
Human (in)security: Palestinian perceptions of security in and around the refugee camps in Lebanon
Based upon over 20 hours of focus groups and in-depth interviews with diverse representation from three Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, the authors analyse Palestinian perceptions of both Lebanese and Palestinian security institutions, detailing the ways in which conventional, state-centric approaches to security by both parties have been insufficient. Special attention is paid to the new security regime in the Nahr al-Bared camp, which was…
The future of human behaviour research
Introduction to the special issue on Arab uprisings
Framing Arab socio-political space: State governmentality, governance and non-institutional protestation
This article proposes a framework for understanding the reconfiguration of sociopolitical space in the Arab world in the last 15 years through the interplay between states’, civil societies’ and contestation movements’ actors which correspond respectively to state governmentality, governance and non-institutional protestation. A special focus will be on the emergence of the figure of the expert who will compete with the elected elite. This reconf…
The dialogic society: The sociology scientists and citizens like and use
Toward a dialogical sociology: Presidential address - XX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2023
In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, the entangled pathologies of late modernity are increasingly revealing themselves in a simultaneous: (1) emergence of authoritarianism in the South and Right populism in the North that is gaining momentum year after year; (2) rising trends of inequality, precarity, and exclusion; and (3) hierarchical social polarizations are emerging in more and more societies. How do, and how should, the social s…
Gulf Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
This article will focus on how the Gulf, state and society, reacted to the Syrian crisis and the role of religious leaders in Gulf area and beyond in addressing when a Muslim should opt for migration as a response to the deterioration of their living conditions and how should behave in the host society. After examining statistics that contradict the Gulf’s official declarations concerning the number of Syrian refugees hosted by their countries, I…
La diaspora palestinienne et la reconversion des capitaux issus de la rente pétrolière
Hanafi Sari. La diaspora palestinienne et la reconversion des capitaux issus de la rente pétrolière. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 41, n°163, 2000. Formes et mutations des économies rentières au Moyen-Orient. Égypte, Émirats Arabes Unis, Jordanie, Palestine, Yémen, sous la direction de Blandine Destremau. pp. 623-643
Contribution de la diaspora à l’économie des Territoires: Investissement et philanthropie
et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
Histoires de frontières: Les Palestiniens du Nord-Sinaï
Complex entanglements: Moving from policy to public sociology in the Arab world
In this article, the author surveys his own career to illustrate some of the dilemmas of research, especially when it assumes a critical and public face. He shows how his work on Palestinian refugees, their socioeconomic rights, their right of return and their camps evolved toward complex forms of traditional and organic public sociology. The article concludes with reflections on one of the major dilemmas researchers face: conducting public resea…
L’Image de l’Autre: Colloque de l’Association arabe de Sociologie. Hammamet, 29-31 mars 1993
Histoires de frontières: Les Palestiniens du Nord-Sinaï
Entre deux mondes: Les hommes d’affaires palestiniens de la diaspora et la construction de l’entité palestinienne
Je remercie, à l’issue de ce travail, tous ceux qui, d’une manière ou d’une autre, m’ont permis de le mener à bien, et tout particulièrement Philippe Fargues et Élisabeth Longuenesse. Je tiens également à remercier l’Union européenne et la Fondation Ford qui ont financé ce programme de recherche
La mise en cause conjoncturelle de l'Occident dans les discours des ingénieurs syriens et égyptiens
La deuxième moitié du XXe siècle est marquée partout dans le monde par des brassages culturels et technologiques démontrant que l'adage de Kipling – « l'Orient, c'est l'orient ; l'Occident, c'est l'Occident. Et jamais les jumeaux ne se rencontreront » –, s'avère faux. Dans ce contexte, la problématique de l'image de l'Occident chez les Arabes incorpore autant d'interrogations sur le moi que sur l'autre : l'identité, l'histoire, la culture, la pol…
The Ideological Positions of Engineers in Syria
In this article I examine the potential ability of engineers to assert themselves as modernizers, i.e. to define themselves from the viewpoint of their profession, relative to their country's economic development. In this perspective, the position of Syrian engineers is not only the result of a reaction to the economic crisis or to the political situation. Instead this refers to the complex space where social, political, religious and national fa…
Contribution de la diaspora à l’économie des Territoires: Investissement et philanthropie
et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
La diaspora palestinienne et la reconversion des capitaux issus de la rente pétrolière
Hanafi Sari. La diaspora palestinienne et la reconversion des capitaux issus de la rente pétrolière. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 41, n°163, 2000. Formes et mutations des économies rentières au Moyen-Orient. Égypte, Émirats Arabes Unis, Jordanie, Palestine, Yémen, sous la direction de Blandine Destremau. pp. 623-643
Opening the Debate on the Right of Return
The Intifada and the Aid Industry: The Impact of the New Liberal Agenda on the Palestinian NGOs
Research Article| August 01 2003 The Intifada and the Aid Industry: The Impact of the New Liberal Agenda on the Palestinian NGOs SARI HANAFI; SARI HANAFI Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google LINDA TABAR LINDA TABAR Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 205–214. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-205 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
L'impact du capital social sur le processus de rapatriement des réfugiés palestiniens: Une étude préliminaire des réseaux économiques et sociaux de parenté en Palestine et en Israël
Cet article cherche à identifier les modèles de retour et de transnationalité. Il met en relief les liens de parenté sociale et économique entre les Palestiniens à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur des Territoires Palestiniens, ainsi que le mode d'entreprenariat qui s'y développe. À la différence d'autres études qui portent sur l'absorption de réfugiés, centrées uniquement sur la contribution de l'État et de la communauté internationale pour faciliter…
Le rôle des ONG pendant la deuxième Intifada
La pauvrete extreme, la decheance physique et le sentiment d’echec n’entament pas toujours le desir d’integration collective. Les SDF rencontres dans les rues parisiennes ou le metro semblent ressentir le besoin d’affirmer leur appartenance a une communaute plus large que celle des seuls mal-loges
Reshaping Geography: Palestinian Community Networks in Europe and the New Media
The continuing difficulty of finding a solution to the physical return of the Palestinian diaspora to the homeland is increasingly being addressed in the digital realm by the rise of virtual communities. PALESTA (Palestinian Scientists and Technologists Aboard) was established to harness the scientific and technological knowledge of expatriate professionals for the benefit of development efforts in Palestine. This paper will discuss both the poss…
Réseaux de la communauté palestinienne d'Europe et impact des nouvelles technologies
À partir du cas particulier du réseau Palesta, qui relie experts et scientifiques expatriés à la Palestine, l'auteur analyse les relations entre réseaux et nouveaux médias. Il décrit comment un pays en voie de développement peut tirer parti de ses experts émigrés, grâce à une politique de mobilisation à distance et de mise en lien avec des programmes scientifiques, technologiques et culturels développés au pays
Israel and the Palestinian Refugees
Mohamed Kamel DoraÏ, Les réfugiés palestiniens du Liban: Une Géographie De l'Exil
« Ce n’est pas en termes de pertes militaires, de pertes économiques [...] que l’on peut estimer de la manière la plus réaliste quel a été le prix à payer par les peuples du Proche-Orient pour les événements de l’année dernière, mais en termes de changements politiques dont le plus marquant a été la création d’une nouvelle catégorie d’apatrides, les réfugiés arabes. » C’est par cette citation de Hannah Arendt qui date de 1948 que Mohamed Kamel Do…
Réfugiés palestiniens, citoyenneté et État-nation
La globalisation a transformé le rapport des migrants à leur pays d'origine et d'accueil, interrogeant leurs relations d'allégeance et de souveraineté avec un pôle de centralité de la diaspora. L'auteur analyse un exemple emblématique de la façon dont les migrants palestiniens questionnent les notions d' Etat-nation, de frontière et de citoyenneté
Cultural Difference or Cultural Hegemony? Contextualizing the Danish Cartoon Controversy within Migration Spaces
This article will argue that the growing polarization between what is perceived as Western society and Muslim 'communities' can neither be analyzed as a clash between identities nor as a reflection of cultural differences. This polarization operates in a context of cultural hegemony, a sort of cultural logic of late capitalism, through which power and global capital are allied and where the migrants are either invisible or hyper-visible. I will t…
Spacio-cide: Colonial politics, invisibility and rezoning in Palestinian territory
In the last two decades, the Arab–Israeli conflict has been considered a ‘low intensity’ conflict, based on a typology which simply takes into account the number of casualties. This typology is misleading, since despite relatively low numbers of casualties, on other counts the conflict may be seen to be in the process of intensification. In particular, a key area that has been gaining relevance is related to space and land: dispossession, occupat…
Testing a New Paradigm: UNRWA's Camp Improvement Programme
The article will critically reflect on recently launched Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Programme of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) – an initiative that still remains at a pilot stage, yet bears the potential to radically overhaul the agency’s approach to prioritizing and delivering services, its relationship to refugee communities and its engagement with the physical, social and cultur…
Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant
Introduction Are Knudsen and Sari Hanafi Part I: Space, Governance and Locality 1. Cartographic Violence, Displacement and Refugee Camps: Palestine and Iraq Julie Peteet 2. Governing the Palestinian Refugees Camps in Lebanon and Syria: The Cases of Nahr El-Bared and Yarmouk Camps Sari Hanafi 3. Palestinian Camp Refugee Identifications: A New Look at the and the National Rosemary Sayigh Part II: Urbanisation, Place and Politics 4. Palestinian Refu…
Civil Society and Peacebuilding: A Critical Assessment
Responding to the burgeoning interest in the role of civil society in peace processes, this groundbreaking collaborative effort identifies the constructive functions of civil society in support of peacebuilding both during and in the aftermath of armed conflict. The authors also highlight the factors that support those functions and the obstacles to their fulfillment. A comprehensive analytical framework is applied to 11 country cases, not only a…
Framing Arab socio-political space: State governmentality, governance and non-institutional protestation
This article proposes a framework for understanding the reconfiguration of sociopolitical space in the Arab world in the last 15 years through the interplay between states’, civil societies’ and contestation movements’ actors which correspond respectively to state governmentality, governance and non-institutional protestation. A special focus will be on the emergence of the figure of the expert who will compete with the elected elite. This reconf…
Governance, Governmentalities, and the State of Exception in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Lebanon
Based upon data collected from four focus groups, this paper examines life in the Nahr al-Bared, Beddawi, and ‘Ayn al-Hilweh refugee camps in Lebanon from a governance perspective. The authors contend that a lack of legitimate governance structures in the camps has inhibited the improvement of socio-economic and living conditions for the residents and jeopardized the security of Palestinians and Lebanese alike. The authors discuss the history of …
(In)Security and Reconstruction in Post-conflict Nahr al-Barid Refugee Camp
Human (in)security: Palestinian perceptions of security in and around the refugee camps in Lebanon
Based upon over 20 hours of focus groups and in-depth interviews with diverse representation from three Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, the authors analyse Palestinian perceptions of both Lebanese and Palestinian security institutions, detailing the ways in which conventional, state-centric approaches to security by both parties have been insufficient. Special attention is paid to the new security regime in the Nahr al-Bared camp, which was…
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