LEADER 03879nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910791338003321 005 20230725015543.0 010 $a0-292-79283-2 024 7 $a10.7560/721876 035 $a(CKB)2560000000014593 035 $a(OCoLC)642690017 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10389875 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000426801 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11285580 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000426801 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10404483 035 $a(PQKB)11190324 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443482 035 $a(OCoLC)864844529 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2421 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443482 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10389875 035 $a(DE-B1597)586817 035 $a(OCoLC)1280944463 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292792838 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000014593 100 $a20091005d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReconstructing Beirut$b[electronic resource] $ememory and space in a postwar Arab city /$fAseel Sawalha 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 225 1 $aJamal and Rania Daniel series in contemporary history, politics, culture, and religion of the Levant 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-72187-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBeirut : a city in transition -- Downtown in "the ancient city of the future" -- 'Ayn el-mreisse : the global market and the apartment unit -- "Beirut is ours, not theirs" : neighborhood sites and struggles in 'Ayn el-mreisse -- Cafes, funerals, and the future of coffee spaces -- Placing the war-displaced -- Afterword : reclaiming downtown again. 330 $aOnce the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, Beirut was devastated by the civil war that ran from 1975 to 1991, which dislocated many residents, disrupted normal municipal functions, and destroyed the vibrant downtown district. The aftermath of the war was an unstable situation Sawalha considers "a postwar state of emergency," even as the state strove to restore normalcy. This ethnography centers on various groups' responses to Beirut's large, privatized urban-renewal project that unfolded during this turbulent moment. At the core of the study is the theme of remembering space. The official process of rebuilding the city as a node in the global economy collided with local day-to-day concerns, and all arguments invariably inspired narratives of what happened before and during the war. Sawalha explains how Beirutis invoked their past experiences of specific sites to vie for the power to shape those sites in the future. Rather than focus on a single site, the ethnography crosses multiple urban sites and social groups, to survey varied groups with interests in particular spaces. The book contextualizes these spatial conflicts within the discourses of the city's historical accounts and the much-debated concept of heritage, voiced in academic writing, politics, and journalism. In the afterword, Sawalha links these conflicts to the social and political crises of early twenty-first-century Beirut. 410 0$aJamal and Rania Daniel series in contemporary history, politics, culture, and religion of the Levant. 606 $aCity planning$zLebanon$zBeirut$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aUrban renewal$zLebanon$zBeirut 607 $aLebanon$xEconomic conditions$y1990- 615 0$aCity planning$xHistory 615 0$aUrban renewal 676 $a307.3/40956925 700 $aSawalha$b Aseel$f1966-$01545041 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791338003321 996 $aReconstructing Beirut$93799673 997 $aUNINA