Overview
- Uniquely straddles visual culture studies, cultural geography, memory studies, literary studies, Middle Eastern studies and urban studies
- Challenges the more common approach of trauma studies to understand cultural representations of Beirut
- Advances an original concept of a particular temporality, “the suspended now” to make sense of how the urban environment is experienced and imagined
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"Judith Naeff has written a highly original and compelling study of the ‘suspended now’ of Beirut. While examining the roots of post-civil war trauma, she takes her project well beyond this to address the implications neoliberalism has had and is having on both the urban space and as it manifests in the precariousness subjecthood of the urban participant. Using deftly applied theoretical approaches, she analyses fascinating case studies ranging from debris and waste to mirrors and martyrs.” (Claire Launchbury, Independent Scholar, UK)
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Book Title: Precarious Imaginaries of Beirut
Book Subtitle: A City's Suspended Now
Authors: Judith Naeff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65933-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65932-9Published: 19 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88134-8Published: 04 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65933-6Published: 01 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 254
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Middle Eastern Culture, Fine Arts, Conflict Studies