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The Dissensual Everyday: Between Daily Life and Exceptional Acts in Beirut, Lebanon
City & Society Pub Date : 2020-09-20 , DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12349
Fuad Musallam 1
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In discussing how people make political use of public space from below, recent writings either emphasize the repurposing of monumental spaces, like Tahrir Square, or else look to how the poor and marginal produce facts on the ground through their everyday interactions without explicit political intentions. In the Hamra neighborhood of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, the daily life of politicized youth was, in the years following the Arab Spring uprisings, something more than passivity and something less than constant avowed resistance. Through their dissensual everyday inhabitation they made Hamra a compelling political site that was good to fight for and in which it was good to fight. Building on attempts to affirm possibility in anthropological engagements with urban life and political activism, I suggest that such spaces, containing an experiential, embodied, and enspaced memory of radical engagements, can maintain political actors in the face of defeat and setback, and provide encouragement for future political action. [Subjectivity; The Everyday; Activism; Space; Lebanon] In late 2010, a wave of protests, demonstrations, and uprisings swept across the Middle East and North Africa. At around the same time, various social movements erupted onto the political stage in the Global North: indignados in Spain, the occupations of Syntagma Square in Greece, and the Occupy movements in the US, the UK, eastern Europe, and further afield. These engagements made striking use of public space. Some made demands of the state, others called for the overthrowing of rulers, almost all created commons in the spaces they occupied. And then, in that public and expansive form, these protests were suddenly gone. The squares were cleared. In much of the Global North, there has been a transfer of energy from the street into electoral politics. With a few exceptions, the Arab uprisings have turned into reaction, the spirit and creative energy unleashed in those months seemingly retreating in the face of violent repression, co-option, counter-revolution, and civil war. The original events were exceptional and took place in exceptional spaces: protestors came to the squares and parks, acted, and then they were gone. Where did they come from, and where did they go? Might there be an everyday space of activism, and if so, what might it look like? In this article, I shift away from the repurposing of “monumental spaces”—sites like Gezi, Syntagma, or Tahrir—through exceptional acts of political will to look instead at daily life in Hamra, a Beirut City & Society, Vol. 0, Issue 0, pp. 1–24, ISSN 0893-0465, eISSN 1548-744X. © 2020 The Authors. City & Society published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Anthropological Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. DOI:10.1111/ciso.12349

中文翻译:

异议的每一天:在黎巴嫩贝鲁特的日常生活与特殊行为之间

在讨论人们如何从下方政治利用公共空间时,最近的著作要么强调了塔里尔广场(Tahrir Square)之类的纪念性空间的用途,要么着眼于穷人和边缘人如何通过日常互动在实地产生事实,而没有明确的政治意图。在阿拉伯之春起义后的几年里,在黎巴嫩首都贝鲁特哈姆拉附近,政治青年的日常生活不仅是消极情绪,而且是持续不断的公开抵抗。通过他们平淡无奇的日常居住,他们使哈姆拉成为一个引人入胜的政治场所,值得为之奋斗,而在其中奋斗则为之。在试图确认人类学与城市生活和政治活动主义互动的可能性的基础上,我建议这种空间包含一个经验性的,体现和包围的激进交往记忆,可以使政治角色面对失败和挫折,并为未来的政治行动提供鼓励。[主观性;每天 行动主义;空间; 黎巴嫩] 2010年底,中东,北非地区掀起了一波抗议,示威和起义浪潮。大约在同一时间,全球北方的各种政治运动爆发到了政治舞台上:西班牙的印第安纳多人,希腊的宪法宪法广场的占领以及美国,英国,东欧以及更远地区的占领运动。这些活动极大地利用了公共空间。一些要求国家的要求,另一些要求推翻统治者,几乎所有国家都在他们占领的地方创造了公地。然后,以这种公开和广泛的形式,这些抗议活动突然消失了。正方形被清除。在全球北部的大部分地区,能量已经从街道转移到选举政治中。除少数例外,阿拉伯起义已转变为反应,在面对暴力镇压,联军增补,反革命和内战的那几个月里释放的精神和创造力似乎退缩了。最初的事件是特殊的,发生在特殊的空间:示威者来到广场和公园,表演,然后消失了。他们来自哪里,又去哪里?可能每天都有行动主义的空间,如果是,那么看起来会是什么样?在本文中,我通过特殊的政治意愿,转而关注贝鲁特市哈姆拉市的日常生活,而不是重新定位“纪念性空间”,例如盖兹,宪法广场或塔里尔等地。社会,卷。0,第0期,第1-24页,ISSN 0893-0465,eISSN 1548-744X。©2020作者。Wiley Periodicals LLC代表美国人类学协会出版的《城市与社会》。这是根据知识共享署名许可协议的条款提供的开放获取的文章,只要适当引用了原始作品,该许可就可以在任何介质中使用,分发和复制。DOI:10.1111 / ciso.12349
更新日期:2020-09-20
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