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Border Lives: An Ethnography of a Lebanese Town in Changing Times

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Border Lives offers an in-depth account of how people in Arsal, a northeastern town on the border of Lebanon with Syria, experienced postwar sociality, and how they grappled with living in the margins of the Lebanese state in the period following the 1975-1990 war. In a rich ethnography of ‘changing times,’ Michelle Obeid shows how restrictions in cross-border mobility, transformations in physical and social spaces, burgeoning new industries and shifting political alliances produced divergent ideologies about domesticity and the family, morality and personhood. Attending to metaphors of modernity in a rural border context, Border Lives broadens the sites in which modernity and social change can be investigated.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-04-18
Mått155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt442 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWomen and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World
Antal sidor182
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004394339

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AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on Names and Transliteration1 Introduction: Border Lives in Changing Times1 Figuring Out Border Lives2 Remoteness and Marginality at the Border3 The Ambivalence of Two States4 Rural Modernities2 Sociality between Movement and Space1 New Capacities for Sociality2 The Workings of ʿIshra3 Domestic Spaces, Gender and Consumption3 Living Well: Experiments in Livelihoods1 Livelihoods as an Ongoing Experiment2 Livelihoods in the Shadow of an ‘Evil State’3 Contested Moral Economies4 Pastoralists: Living the Past in the Present1 Transhumance and Political Change2 Spatial and Human Organisation3 Herding Dilemmas4 Conflicts of Interest5 Envying ‘the Comfortable Woman’5 Marriage between Love and Fate1 The Befalling of Nasīb2 The Vocabulary of Modern Marriage3 Intergenerational Negotiations4 When Negotiation Fails6 Suspicion and Scorpions: The Morality of Kinship1 Ensnaring Brothers and Suspicious Sisters2 Of Failed Bargains3 The Morality of Kinship7 Local Elections: Politics at the Margin1 1963: Familism, a Divisive Force2 1998: ʿĀʾila Redeemed3 Familism Strikes Back4 Corruption that Compromises National Pride5 The 2004 Lists: ‘Old Wine, New Bottles?’6 New Council, New Directions8 What the Future Hides1 A Visit in Post-Syrian Time2 Is it Possible to Move Backwards?BibliographyIndex

"Michelle Obeid poetically captures the ardor and anguish of how Lebanese “yu-maddu”, daily manage in an isolated marginal rural town on the alternately porous and securitized border of Lebanon and Syria. Her subtle and sympathetic account offers a window to the transforming, at times violent, reality as the inhabitants seek normality, recount the laughter and familiarity of the past, are upended by the vicissitudes of social life, and push through borders and boundaries, grasping at a modernity they alternately mock and seek. Obeid offers a vivid and riveting story of life lived at the periphery."Suad Joseph (Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, University of California, Davis)