The Insecure City

Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19928993
AutoresKristin V Monroe (0009-0003-3309-5798, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Páginas185
Data de publicação2019-12-31
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoThe Insecure City (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRutgers University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.36019/9780813574653
OpenAlexW2619857116
Open LibraryOL28357250M
ISBN9780813574653
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas4

Fifteen years after the end of a protracted civil and regional war, Beirut broke out in violence once again, forcing residents to contend with many forms of insecurity, amid an often violent political and economic landscape. Providing a picture of what ordinary life is like for urban dwellers surviving sectarian violence, The Insecure City captures the day-to-day experiences of citizens of Beirut moving through a war-torn landscape.\nWhile living in Beirut, Kristin Monroe conducted interviews with a diverse group of residents of the city. She found that when people spoke about getting around in Beirut, they were also expressing larger concerns about social, political, and economic life. It was not only violence that threatened Beirut’s ordinary residents, but also class dynamics that made life even more precarious. For instance, the installation of checkpoints and the rerouting of traffic—set up for the security of the elite—forced the less fortunate to alter their lives in ways that made them more at risk. Similarly, the ability to pass through security blockades often had to do with an individual’s visible markers of class, such as clothing, hairstyle, and type of car. Monroe examines how understandings and practices of spatial mobility in the city reflect social differences, and how such experiences led residents to be bitterly critical of their government.\nIn The Insecure City, Monroe takes urban anthropology in a new and meaningful direction, discussing traffic in the Middle East to show that when people move through Beirut they are experiencing the intersection of citizen and state, of the more and less privileged, and, in general, the city’s politically polarized geography

Geography · Physics · China's Global Influence and Migration · Computer Science · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society · 307.76095692/5 · Anthropology · Beirut · beyrouth (liban) · Cities and towns · City traffic · Ht147.l4 m66 2016 · Lebanon · Liban · Public spaces · Social conditions · Sociology - Urban · Study and teaching · Urban anthropology · Urban Sociology · Violence · Violence urbaine