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This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of the legacy of
Lebanon’s peace agreement in the 30 years since it was signed.
The chapters in this edited volume have been written by leading
scholars and provide in-depth analyses of key issues in postwar
Lebanon, including the performance of power-sharing, human rights,
communal memory and sectarianism, conflict and peace, militias,
political parties and elections. A core strength of the book is the
multidisciplinary approach to understanding postwar Lebanon,
ranging from political science, international relations, sociology,
conflict and peace studies, history and memory studies. The
multidisciplinary character of the book allows for a rich and
detailed evaluation of the ongoing legacy and consequences of
Lebanon’s postwar settlement. The book will be of interest to
scholars, students and people interested in contemporary Lebanese
politics and society. It will also be attractive for a wider
international audience interested in the consequences of postwar
power-sharing systems and peace processes. The chapters in this
book were originally published as a special issue of the journal,
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.
This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of the legacy of
Lebanon's peace agreement in the 30 years since it was signed. The
chapters in this edited volume have been written by leading
scholars and provide in-depth analyses of key issues in postwar
Lebanon, including the performance of power-sharing, human rights,
communal memory and sectarianism, conflict and peace, militias,
political parties and elections. A core strength of the book is the
multidisciplinary approach to understanding postwar Lebanon,
ranging from political science, international relations, sociology,
conflict and peace studies, history and memory studies. The
multidisciplinary character of the book allows for a rich and
detailed evaluation of the ongoing legacy and consequences of
Lebanon's postwar settlement. The book will be of interest to
scholars, students and people interested in contemporary Lebanese
politics and society. It will also be attractive for a wider
international audience interested in the consequences of postwar
power-sharing systems and peace processes. The chapters in this
book were originally published as a special issue of the journal,
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.
Using a rich array of ethnographic and archival data closely
considering the Irish and the manner in which 'Irishness' was
rendered inclusive, Multiculturalism's Double Bind demonstrates
that multiculturalism can encourage cross-community political
engagement in the global city. This book challenges the perceived
wisdom that multiculturalism counteracts the opportunity for groups
to move beyond their particularized constituency to build links and
networks with other 'minority' groups. Theoretically informed and
empirically grounded this volume will appeal to scholars across a
range of disciplines, including migration and ethnicity, social and
cultural anthropology, Irish studies and sociology.
Violently divided societies present major challenges to
institutions seeking to establish peace in places characterised by
ethnic conflict and high levels of social segregation. Yet such
societies also contain groups that refuse to be confined within
separate forms of ethnic community and instead develop alternative
modes of action that generate shared identities, build trust and
foster consensual, peaceful politics. Advancing a unique social
movement approach to the study of violently divided societies, this
book highlights how various social movements function within a
context of violent ethnic politics and provide new ways of
imagining citizenship that complements peacebuilding. By analysing
the impact of social movements on divided societies, this book
contributes to debates about the complexity of belonging and
identity, and constructs a nuanced understanding of political
mobilisation in regions defined by ethnic violence. In turn, the
book provides important insights into the dynamics of social
movement mobilisation. Based on the author's extensive research in
Lebanon and Northern Ireland, and drawing on numerous examples from
other divided societies, this book examines a range of social
movements, including nationalists, victims, sexual minorities,
labour movements, feminists, environmentalists, secularists, and
peace movements. Bringing together social theory and case studies
in order to consider how grassroots movements intersect with
political institutions, this book will be of interest to students,
scholars and policymakers working in sociology and politics.
Using a rich array of ethnographic and archival data closely
considering the Irish and the manner in which 'Irishness' was
rendered inclusive, Multiculturalism's Double Bind demonstrates
that multiculturalism can encourage cross-community political
engagement in the global city. This book challenges the perceived
wisdom that multiculturalism counteracts the opportunity for groups
to move beyond their particularized constituency to build links and
networks with other 'minority' groups. Theoretically informed and
empirically grounded this volume will appeal to scholars across a
range of disciplines, including migration and ethnicity, social and
cultural anthropology, Irish studies and sociology.
Violently divided societies present major challenges to
institutions seeking to establish peace in places characterised by
ethnic conflict and high levels of social segregation. Yet such
societies also contain groups that refuse to be confined within
separate forms of ethnic community and instead develop alternative
modes of action that generate shared identities, build trust and
foster consensual, peaceful politics. Advancing a unique social
movement approach to the study of violently divided societies, this
book highlights how various social movements function within a
context of violent ethnic politics and provide new ways of
imagining citizenship that complements peacebuilding. By analysing
the impact of social movements on divided societies, this book
contributes to debates about the complexity of belonging and
identity, and constructs a nuanced understanding of political
mobilisation in regions defined by ethnic violence. In turn, the
book provides important insights into the dynamics of social
movement mobilisation. Based on the author's extensive research in
Lebanon and Northern Ireland, and drawing on numerous examples from
other divided societies, this book examines a range of social
movements, including nationalists, victims, sexual minorities,
labour movements, feminists, environmentalists, secularists, and
peace movements. Bringing together social theory and case studies
in order to consider how grassroots movements intersect with
political institutions, this book will be of interest to students,
scholars and policymakers working in sociology and politics.
This book analyses the role power sharing, social movements,
economic regeneration, urban space, memorialisation and symbols
play in transforming divided societies into shared peaceful ones.
It explains why some projects are counterproductive while others
assist peace-building.
Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing
together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers
a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over parades,
flags and other issues that continue to disrupt political life in
Northern Ireland. It examines the emergence during the nineteenth
century of the concept of public space and the development of new
strategies for its regulation, the establishment, the new
conditions created by the emergence in 1920 of a Northern Ireland
state, of a near monopoly of public space enjoyed by Protestants
and unionists, and the break down of that monopoly in more recent
decades. Today policy makers and politicians struggle to devise a
strategy for the management of public space in a divided city,
while endeavouring to promote a new sense of civic identity that
will transcend long-standing sectarian and political divisions. --
.
This volume focuses on a number of research questions, drawn from
social movement scholarship: How does nonviolent mobilisation
emerge and persist in deeply divided societies? What are the
trajectories of participation in violent groups in these societies?
What is the relationship between overt mobilisation, clandestine
operations and protests among political prisoners? What is the role
of media coverage and identity politics? Can there be non-sectarian
collective mobilisation in deeply divided societies? The answers to
these questions do not merely try to explain contentious politics
in Northern Ireland; instead, they inform future research on social
movements beyond this case. Specifically, we argue that an
actor-based approach and the contextualisation of contentious
politics provide a dynamic theoretical framework to better
understand the Troubles and the development of conflicts in deeply
divided societies.
Sociology is interested in the ways people shape the society they
live in, and the ways society shapes them. Simply, it is the study
of what modern society is and how it functions. In the series'
inimitable style, Introducing Sociology traces the origins of
sociology from industrialization, revolution and the Enlightenment
through to globalization, neoliberalism and the fear of nationalism
- introducing you to key thinkers, movements and concepts along the
way. You will develop insight into the world around you, as you
engage your 'sociological imagination' and explore studies of the
city, theories of power and knowledge, concepts of national, racial
and sexual identity, and much more.
The Middle East is often portrayed as oppressively patriarchal and
homophobic. Yet, in recent years the region has become a vibrant
and important arena for feminist and LGBTQ activism. This book
provides an insight into this emerging politics through a unique
analysis of feminist and LGBTQ social movements in the context of
Lebanon's postwar sectarian system. Resisting Sectarianism argues
that LGBTQ and feminists social movements are powerful agents of
political and social transformation in Lebanon. Drawing on
extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book takes the reader inside
these movements to see how they attract members and construct
campaigns, forge alliances, and the multiple ways in which they
generate important forms of resistance to, and change within, the
sectarian system. The book also traces the strong obstacles that
sectarian parties and religious authorities employ to weaken LGBTQ
and feminist activism.
The Middle East is often portrayed as oppressively patriarchal and
homophobic. Yet, in recent years the region has become a vibrant
and important arena for feminist and LGBTQ activism. This book
provides an insight into this emerging politics through a unique
analysis of feminist and LGBTQ social movements in the context of
Lebanon's postwar sectarian system. Resisting Sectarianism argues
that LGBTQ and feminists social movements are powerful agents of
political and social transformation in Lebanon. Drawing on
extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book takes the reader inside
these movements to see how they attract members and construct
campaigns, forge alliances, and the multiple ways in which they
generate important forms of resistance to, and change within, the
sectarian system. The book also traces the strong obstacles that
sectarian parties and religious authorities employ to weaken LGBTQ
and feminist activism.
Civic identity and public space, focussing on Belfast, and bringing
together the work of a historian and two social scientists, offers
a new perspective on the sometimes lethal conflicts over parades,
flags and other issues that continue to disrupt political life in
Northern Ireland. It examines the emergence during the nineteenth
century of the concept of public space and the development of new
strategies for its regulation, the establishment, the new
conditions created by the emergence in 1920 of a Northern Ireland
state, of a near monopoly of public space enjoyed by Protestants
and unionists, and the break down of that monopoly in more recent
decades. Today policy makers and politicians struggle to devise a
strategy for the management of public space in a divided city,
while endeavouring to promote a new sense of civic identity that
will transcend long-standing sectarian and political divisions. --
.
Armies are invariably accused of preparing to fight the last
war. Nagl examines how armies learn during the course of conflicts
for which they are initially unprepared in organization, training,
and mindset. He compares the development of counterinsurgency
doctrine and practice in the Malayan Emergency from 1948-1960 with
that developed in the Vietnam Conflict from 1950-1975, through use
of archival sources and interviews with participants in both
conflicts. In examining these two events, he argues that
organizational culture is the key variable in determining the
success or failure of attempts to adapt to changing
circumstances.
Differences in organizational culture is the primary reason why
the British Army learned to conduct counterinsurgency in Malaya
while the American Army failed to learn in Vietnam. The American
Army resisted any true attempt to learn how to fight an insurgency
during the course of the Vietnam Conflict, preferring to treat the
war as a conventional conflict in the tradition of the Korean War
or World War II. The British Army, because of its traditional role
as a colonial police force and the organizational characteristics
that its history and the national culture created, was better able
to quickly learn and apply the lessons of counterinsurgency during
the course of the Malayan Emergency. This is the first study to
apply organizational learning theory to cases in which armies were
engaged in actual combat.
The book discusses how division affect the fabric of cities,
and people’s sense of identity and agency, and are
reflected in physical features, architecture, and urban
planning. The question of divided cities represents a complex and
multistranded urban Ecology—at once both social and
spatial; it cannot be limited to a single science or discipline,
such as social or spatial fields. This suggests integrated and
cross- disciplinary understandings, as well as integrated or
parallel approaches and solutions. Urban ecologies of division
manifest in multiple forms. One of their most palpable expressions
is conflict, with parallels around the world, and often with
correlations in the spatial fabric. Violence in such contexts is
often a surface expression of deeper socio-economic or ideological
differences. Whether as a result of intervention by authority or by
dissent between groups, a divided city inevitably becomes a
place of conflict in various forms and intensity, eroding the joy
of living and sense of collective belonging to the detriment of
all. In effect, it erodes the collective advantage of being part of
a more unified society. A city exists in collections of social
structures which mutually form a society. A divided city
implies divided social structures and, in consequence, a divided
society. The papers compiled in this book present many case studies
of divided cities, discussing the different causes of divisions and
their effects on societies. Some of the causes can be linked to
conflicts, wars, colonialism, or legislative political
systems. In response to the serious challenges resulting
from these divisions, the book aims to provide opportunities for
new approaches and possibilities for new interventions and
solutions, making it significant to urban planners, architects,
and policymakers.
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