Practicing sectarianism : archival and ethnographic interventions on Lebanon
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Deeb Lara (1974-....) ; Nalbantian Tsolin ; Sbaiti Nadya (19..-....) ;
- ISBN : 978-1-5036-3386-5
- Sujets : Communautarisme -- Liban, Relations interethniques, Lebanon -- Ethnic relations
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (x-242 pages), 23 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Bibliographie pages 221-232. Notes bibliographiques. Index
Résumé
'Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism. Essays use the concept as an animating principle within a variety of sites across Lebanon and its diasporas and over a range of historical periods. With contributions from historians and anthropologists, this volume reveals the many ways sectarianism is used to exhibit, imagine, or contest power: What forms of affective pull does it have on people and communities? What epistemological work does it do as a concept? How does it function as a marker of social difference? Examining social interaction, each essay analyzes how people experience sectarianism, sometimes pushing back, sometimes evading it, sometimes deploying it strategically, to a variety of effects and consequences. The collection advances an understanding of sectarianism simultaneously constructed and experienced, a slippery and changeable concept with material effects. And even as the book's focus is Lebanon, its analysis fractures the association of sectarianism with the nation-state and suggests possibilities that can travel to other sites. Practicing Sectarianism, taken as a whole, argues that sectarianism can only be fully understood--and dismantled--if we first take it seriously as a practice'