UPC: 9781503633865 | Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon (Paperback)

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Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism. The book s essays use the concept as an animating principle within a variety of sites across Lebanon and its diasporas and over a range of historical periods. With contributions from historians and anthropologists this volume reveals the many ways sectarianism is used to exhibit imagine or contest power: What forms of affective pull does it have on people and communities? What epistemological work does it do as a concept? How does it function as a marker of social difference? Examining social interaction each essay analyzes how people experience sectarianism sometimes pushing back sometimes evading it sometimes deploying it strategically to a variety of effects and consequences. The collection advances an understanding of sectarianism simultaneously constructed and experienced a slippery and changeable concept with material effects. And even as the book s focus is Lebanon its analysis fractures the association of sectarianism with the nation-state and suggests possibilities that can travel to other sites. Practicing Sectarianism taken as a whole argues that sectarianism can only be fully understood–and dismantled–if we first take it seriously as a practice.