War and the City examines the geopolitical significance of the
Lebanese Civil War through a micro-level exploration of how the
urban landscape of Beirut was transformed by the conflict. Focusing
on the initial phase of the war in 1975 and 1976, the volume also
draws significant parallels with more recent occurrences of
internecine conflict and with the historical legacies of Lebanon's
colonial past. While most scholarship has thus far focused on
post-war reconstruction of the city, the initial process of
destruction has been neglected. This volume thus moves away from
formal macro-level geopolitical analysis, to propose instead an
exploration of the urban nature of conflict through its spaces,
infrastructures, bodies and materialities. The book utilizes urban
viewpoints in order to highlight the nature of sovereignty in
Lebanon and how it is inscribed on the urban landscape. War and the
City presents a view of geopolitics as not only shaping narratives
of international relations, but as crucially reshaping the space of
cities.
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