Elizabeth Saleh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 94374 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elizabeth Saleh |
| PRENOMES | Elizabeth |
| SOBRENOME | Saleh |
| ASSINATURA | SALEH E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | American University of Beirut |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Out of the Ground
This article thinks ethnographically with phylloxera, an insect with a lethal proclivity for Vitis vinifera. The infamous louse traveled from North America to Eurasia during the nineteenth century. Fatefully, this tiny bug's journey to Lebanon overlapped with the Jesuit Return Mission to the Orient, which began in 1831. Around 1882, Jesuits successfully imported “French” grape vines that would eventually displace local varieties as well as the bo…
Teaching with the Window Open
In this reflexive essay about teaching, I reflect upon the political space anthropology might hold in Lebanon, a country positioned at a continuum between so-called normalcy and catastrophe. What does it mean to teach in a context where there is a jarring disparity between a mundaneness, an almost banality to the everyday, and severe, often life-threatening interruptions? Where do political possibilities go in the process? What is recuperated? Wh…
Guns, gangs and metal
In Beirut, the role of 'local strong men', known as the masoul, has significantly transformed, particularly in Lebanon's financial crisis and since the devastating Beirut port explosion in August 2020. Traditionally, these armed henchmen, affiliated with mainstream political parties, have exerted control over the scrap metal industry, from collection to transportation. However, the increasing profitability of scrap metal, notably copper and iron …
‘There Is No Value’
This article draws on narratives from middle-class households in Beirut to examine their disenfranchisement amid the country’s financial collapse. A common expression, “There is no value,” is often used in allusion to extreme price fluctuation that has punctuated everyday life since the end of 2019. The phrase also speaks to the undoing of a middle-class lifestyle that emerged with the pegging of the Lebanese lira to the US dollar in the 1990s. R…
Berdamai dengan Keterbatasan Epistemologis
Following the proliferation of digital media usage, the world has seen an increasing amount of digitally-mediated lives in everyday contexts. While anthropological scholarship has started to address this ever-growing subject, anthropologists are mainly preoccupied with human engagements in virtual worlds that have their own tangible and embodied sense of spatiality (e.g., online role-playing and gaming communities). In so doing, anthropologists h…
The Joke Is on Us (At 34[3)]
The joke is on us
The Lebanese scrap metal industry - one of the country's largest exports - relies heavily upon marginalized young boys displaced from their homes in Syria. These underage waste pickers are not supposed to be working, and yet work is the only legitimate reason for their presence in Lebanon. Workers engage in different types of trip as they journey across Beirut, discreetly rummaging through rubbish. These trips allow them to cover up play under th…
A tangled web of lies
In this essay, the author reflects upon the performances of kizb (lying) she and Syrian Turkmen women acted out on a street in Beirut. The women worked informally selling tissues as well as potentially other services that were deemed as too immoral to be explicitly and publicly spoken as the truth, at least in front of an ethnographer. Meanwhile, the author had her own morally problematic behaviour to conceal. Over time, plot-holes in each of the…
The master cockroach
In Lebanon, where over one million Syrians have taken refuge in the last five years, the informal sector has risen dramatically, particularly in the capital Beirut. Yet, the informal economy is not a recent phenomenon in Beirut and Syrian labour has long contributed to it. With the accelerated rate at which the informal sector has increased, new features that are distinctive to conflict and displacement are arising out of the interface with the f…
The master cockroach
In Lebanon, where over one million Syrians have taken refuge in the last five years, the informal sector has risen dramatically, particularly in the capital Beirut. Yet, the informal economy is not a recent phenomenon in Beirut and Syrian labour has long contributed to it. With the accelerated rate at which the informal sector has increased, new features that are distinctive to conflict and displacement are arising out of the interface with the f…
The joke is on us
The Lebanese scrap metal industry - one of the country's largest exports - relies heavily upon marginalized young boys displaced from their homes in Syria. These underage waste pickers are not supposed to be working, and yet work is the only legitimate reason for their presence in Lebanon. Workers engage in different types of trip as they journey across Beirut, discreetly rummaging through rubbish. These trips allow them to cover up play under th…
A tangled web of lies
In this essay, the author reflects upon the performances of kizb (lying) she and Syrian Turkmen women acted out on a street in Beirut. The women worked informally selling tissues as well as potentially other services that were deemed as too immoral to be explicitly and publicly spoken as the truth, at least in front of an ethnographer. Meanwhile, the author had her own morally problematic behaviour to conceal. Over time, plot-holes in each of the…
The master cockroach
In Lebanon, where over one million Syrians have taken refuge in the last five years, the informal sector has risen dramatically, particularly in the capital Beirut. Yet, the informal economy is not a recent phenomenon in Beirut and Syrian labour has long contributed to it. With the accelerated rate at which the informal sector has increased, new features that are distinctive to conflict and displacement are arising out of the interface with the f…
A tangled web of lies
In this essay, the author reflects upon the performances of kizb (lying) she and Syrian Turkmen women acted out on a street in Beirut. The women worked informally selling tissues as well as potentially other services that were deemed as too immoral to be explicitly and publicly spoken as the truth, at least in front of an ethnographer. Meanwhile, the author had her own morally problematic behaviour to conceal. Over time, plot-holes in each of the…
The Joke Is on Us (At 34[3)]
The joke is on us
The Lebanese scrap metal industry - one of the country's largest exports - relies heavily upon marginalized young boys displaced from their homes in Syria. These underage waste pickers are not supposed to be working, and yet work is the only legitimate reason for their presence in Lebanon. Workers engage in different types of trip as they journey across Beirut, discreetly rummaging through rubbish. These trips allow them to cover up play under th…
Berdamai dengan Keterbatasan Epistemologis
Following the proliferation of digital media usage, the world has seen an increasing amount of digitally-mediated lives in everyday contexts. While anthropological scholarship has started to address this ever-growing subject, anthropologists are mainly preoccupied with human engagements in virtual worlds that have their own tangible and embodied sense of spatiality (e.g., online role-playing and gaming communities). In so doing, anthropologists h…
‘There Is No Value’
This article draws on narratives from middle-class households in Beirut to examine their disenfranchisement amid the country’s financial collapse. A common expression, “There is no value,” is often used in allusion to extreme price fluctuation that has punctuated everyday life since the end of 2019. The phrase also speaks to the undoing of a middle-class lifestyle that emerged with the pegging of the Lebanese lira to the US dollar in the 1990s. R…
Teaching with the Window Open
In this reflexive essay about teaching, I reflect upon the political space anthropology might hold in Lebanon, a country positioned at a continuum between so-called normalcy and catastrophe. What does it mean to teach in a context where there is a jarring disparity between a mundaneness, an almost banality to the everyday, and severe, often life-threatening interruptions? Where do political possibilities go in the process? What is recuperated? Wh…
Guns, gangs and metal
In Beirut, the role of 'local strong men', known as the masoul, has significantly transformed, particularly in Lebanon's financial crisis and since the devastating Beirut port explosion in August 2020. Traditionally, these armed henchmen, affiliated with mainstream political parties, have exerted control over the scrap metal industry, from collection to transportation. However, the increasing profitability of scrap metal, notably copper and iron …
Out of the Ground
This article thinks ethnographically with phylloxera, an insect with a lethal proclivity for Vitis vinifera. The infamous louse traveled from North America to Eurasia during the nineteenth century. Fatefully, this tiny bug's journey to Lebanon overlapped with the Jesuit Return Mission to the Orient, which began in 1831. Around 1882, Jesuits successfully imported “French” grape vines that would eventually displace local varieties as well as the bo…
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