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  title info:
    title: Precarious Imaginaries of Beirut
    sub title: A City's Suspended Now
  name:
    name part: Naeff, Judith.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 254 p. 21 illus., 20 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book investigates a shared experience of time and space in the post-civil-war city of Beirut: "the suspended now". Based on the close analysis of a large corpus of cultural objects; including visual art, literature, architecture and cinema; the book argues that last decades have witnessed a gradual shift in understanding this temporality from being a transitional phase to a more durable experience of precariousness. The theoretically rich analyses take us on a journey through Beirut's real and imagined geographies, from garbage dumps to real estate advertisements, and from subterranean spaces to martyr's posters. For scholars of cultural analysis, urban studies, cultural geography and critical theory, the case of post-1990 Beirut offers a fascinating case of neoliberal urban renewal, which challenges existing theories. For scholars of Lebanon and Beirut, this study complements existing work on post-civil-war Lebanese cultural production rooted in trauma studies by its focus on the city's continual exposure to violence.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Beirut's Suspended Now -- 3. The Disposable City -- 4. Surface City -- 5. Excavation and Mourning Conclusion: Ethics in the Precarious City (The Case of You Stink) -- 6. Conclusion.
  note: by Judith Naeff.
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology-Middle East
  subject:
    topic: Fine arts
  subject:
    topic: Peace
  subject:
    topic: Middle Eastern Culture
  subject:
    topic: Fine Arts
  subject:
    topic: Conflict Studies
  classification: GN635.N42
  classification: 306.0956
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319659336
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65933-6
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    record creation date: 171201
    record change date: 20191027001841.0
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