Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 20
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- I.B.Taurus
- ISBN
- 978-1-83860-377-9
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon’ makes visible the interplay between material and immaterial borders in sites of political and religious conflict. It asks: What bordering practices of the political–sectarian conflict exist in urban space? And: How do the bordering practices of art and research operate in urban space in their attempt to negotiate, document, transform and narrate the conflict mechanisms and borders?
The book is a practice-led research project that employs art processes including interviews, documentations and media representations to work with residents and negotiate conditions of political borders. It proposes a method of negotiating; one that considers how artistic research can itself be considered as a form of a critical spatial practice and, in particular, a bordering practice – what the book terms critical bordering practice. This enables the rethinking of border positions, including those between disciplines – such as between practice and theory – and between spatial conditions – such as between private and public. This proposition leads to the transformation of certain borders particularly the positions of divisive political narratives.
The book is published by I.B. Tauris, (Bloomsbury), and is distributed internationally in hardcover for academic institutions and libraries. It is released simultaneously in paperback after positive critical review by professors Mona Fawaz and Sandro Mezzadra, amongst others, allowing the publication to reach a wider readership beyond academia.
The book’s significance is in its interdisciplinary methodology of working in contexts of urban conflict that attracts academics and practitioners across the fields of border studies, urbanism, media studies and art. The professor of anthropology Ghassan Hage has remarked: ‘the book is particularly useful to read for students of spatial practices from any discipline: reading it actually awakens the reader’s spatio-sensory apparatuses, and sharpens one’s appreciation of the various modes of experience pertaining to the spatial domain.’
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- Non-English
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