Negotiation of space: the politics of destruction and reconstruction in Lebanon

» See the place on a map

Conveners

Sofia T. Shwayri

Sune Haugbolle

in collaboration with The Middle East Centre

Negotiation of space: the politics of destruction and reconstruction in Lebanon

Date: Friday 13 Jun 2008 (All day) to Saturday 14 Jun 2008 (All day)

Place: St. Antony’s College, the Middle East Centre library

Research programme: Nation and Globalization

Provisional Programme

Day 1: Friday 13 June

Setting the Stage

Joe Nasr. "Lost Opportunities": On success, failure and learning from the past in Lebanese reconstructions. Toronto, CANADA.

Jens Hanssen. After the War is before the war is after the War: urban crises and cultures in modern Beirut. University of Toronto, CANADA.

Sofia Shwayri. “Centralization” versus “Peripherilization”: The State, the Private Sector, and the Public. University of Oxford, ENGLAND.

Day 2: Saturday 14 June

Session 1: Sectarian Geography and Identity Politics

Sune Haugbolle. Conceptualising Space in the Social and Political History of Modern Lebanon. University of Oxford, ENGLAND.

Lucia Volk. Bearing Disproportionate Sacrifice: Al Mazloumeen in North and South Lebanon. San Francisco State University, USA.

Hanna Ziadeh. Special claims and chronic fears: communal space and post-war reconciliation. The Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark.

Session 2: Reconstruction Politics from Solidere to Nahr elBared

Marwan Ghandour. The Political Implication of Reconstruction Projects: Solidere, Wa’d, Nahr el-Bared. Iowa State University, USA.

Sanaa AlJack. Reconstruction Media War. AnNahar/AlSharq AlAwsat, LEBANON.

Robert Saliba. The Teaching of Reconstruction between Political Engagement and Disengagement. American University of Beirut, LEBANON.

Valerie Clerc. Negotiations of Space, Perceptions and Strategies in the Urban Projects of Beirut’s Southern Suburbs reconstruction. Institut Français du Proche-Orient, SYRIA.

Session 3: Infrastructure and Development Strategies

Eric Verdeil. Water and electricity networks between reform and stress in Beirut and Tripoli: from post-civil war reconstruction to the new Lebanese wars. Universite de Lyon, FRANCE.

Jala Makhzoumi. A Landscape Design Approach to Postwar Recovery in South Lebanon. American University of Beirut, LEBANON.

Maha Shwayb. The Impact of Reconstruction Policies during 1989-2007 on Community Cohesion in Lebanon, The National Foundation for Educational Research, ENGLAND.

Session 4: Comments and Discussion