Critical Junctures and Missed Opportunities: The Case of Lebanon's Cedar Revolution

Clark, Janine A.; Zahar, Marie‐Joëlle

doi:10.1080/17449057.2014.924659

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“…CSOs are affected by prevailing sociopolitical divisions, and often sustain and reproduce them (Kingston, 2013), with sectarian elites either penetrating, besieging, co-opting their structures or repressing their actions (Clark and Salloukh, 2013). Researchers distinguish CSOs based on kinship and sectarian ties from those operating on the basis of non-sectarian activism; they also note the power asymmetry between both types, which impedes structural change (Clark and Zahar, 2015).…”

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The promises and pitfalls of disaster aid platforms: a case study of Lebanon’s 3RF

Harb,

Bloemeke,

Atallah

et al. 2024

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PurposeUsing critical disaster studies and state theory, we assess the disaster aid platform named Lebanon Reconstruction, Reform and Recovery Framework (3RF) that was put in place by international donors in the aftermath of the Beirut Port Blast in August 2020, in order to examine the effectiveness of its inclusive decision-making architecture, as well as its institutional building and legislative reform efforts.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses the case study approaach and relies on two original data sets compiled by authors, using desk reviews of academic literature and secondary data, in addition to 24 semi-structured expert interviews and participant observation for two years.FindingsThe aid platform appears innovative, participatory and effectively functioning toward recovery and reform. However, in practice, the government dismisses CSOs, undermines reforms and dodges state building, whereas the 3RF is structured in incoherent ways and operates according to conflicting logics, generating inertia and pitfalls that hinder effective participatory governance, prevent institutional building, and delay the making of projects.Research limitations/implicationsThe research contributes to critical scholarship as it addresses an important research gap concerning disaster aid platforms’ institutional design and governance that are under-studied in critical disaster studies and political studies. It also highlights the need for critical disaster studies to engage with state theory and vice-versa.Practical implicationsThe research contributes to evaluations of disaster recovery processes and outcomes. It highlights the limits of disaster aid platforms’ claims for participatory decision-making, institutional-building and reforms.Originality/valueThe paper amplifies critical disaster studies, through the reflexive analysis of a case-study of an aid platform.

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The promises and pitfalls of disaster aid platforms: a case study of Lebanon’s 3RF

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Atallah

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“…In effect, after the victory of the March 14 coalition at the elections of May 2005, the country got caught in a deep political crisis reflecting the delicate reassessment that the domestic and regional power balances were undergoing (Clark and Zahar 2015). One of the major sources of conflict revolved around the question of the disarmament of Hezbollah which, after the suspicions fallen on the organization for the assassination of the late prime minister, regained momentum after the “July War” fought against Israel in 2006.…”

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Mobilizing the Past in Revolutionary Times: Memory, Counter‐Memory, and Nostalgia During the Lebanese Uprising

Porta

Tufaro

2022

Sociological Forum

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Social movement studies have addressed the issue of nostalgia within two perspectives, focusing, respectively, on emotions and on memory. Our contribution looks at nostalgia in social movements by building upon the combination of these two streams in social movement studies. Going beyond a stereotypical vision of reactionary movements as backward looking and progressive ones as forward looking, we will suggest that while both types of movements look at some aspects of the past with nostalgia, they do it in a very different combination of emotions and memory. To compare how different movements perform their emotional and memory work, we focused on the recent uprising in Lebanon as a critical case in which mobilizations and counter‐mobilizations have been carried out by different actors at the same time. In both cases, nostalgia was strategically developed for different moments of Lebanon's history through the movements' choices of the very spaces for the performance of contentious acts, but also the symbolic meaning attributed to them and the emotional work performed around the protest events. By developing a “tick description” of some main contentious moments where nostalgia emerged in the Lebanon uprisings, we aim to understand the ways in which nostalgia intervenes in the social construction of memories and counter‐memories, in an emotionally dense environment.

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“…Most studies of resilience start with the identification of what is sometimes called a "critical juncture". Commonly defined as "choice points that put countries (or other units) onto paths of development that track certain outcomes -as opposed to others -and that cannot be easily broken or reversed" (Mahoney 2001: 7), critical junctures are slowly making their way from comparative politics (Soifer 2012) to ethnic and migration studies (Clark and Zahar 2014) and to international relations scholarship (Fioretos 2011).…”

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Migration, Resilience and Security: Responses to New Inflows of Asylum Seekers and Migrants

Bourbeau¹

2015

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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The ubiquity of resilience -the process of patterned adjustments adopted by a society or an individual in the face of endogenous or exogenous shocks -across the broad social sciences spectrum is undisputable. Yet, migration scholars have been relatively absent from this vibrant discussion. The present article suggests a theorization of the link between migration, resilience, and security by examining ways in which resilience precedes a socially constructed understanding of international migration as a security issue. The article explores how the surge in worldwide refugee numbers and associated mass migration phenomena were not only interpreted as a shock in post-Cold War France, but also instrumentalised by dominant discourses to underscore the necessity of adopting a particular pattern of adjustments to uphold the status quo against changes provoked by these migratory events. The social construction of refugee movements and mass migration as a significant disturbance requiring France to opt for a resilient strategy has led, ultimately, to the securitization of migration. In a broader sense, the article presents a new lens through which to analyze situations and conditions in which resilience has led to and induced the securitization of migration.

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Critical Junctures and Missed Opportunities: The Case of Lebanon's Cedar Revolution

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

The promises and pitfalls of disaster aid platforms: a case study of Lebanon’s 3RF

The promises and pitfalls of disaster aid platforms: a case study of Lebanon’s 3RF

Mobilizing the Past in Revolutionary Times: Memory, Counter‐Memory, and Nostalgia During the Lebanese Uprising

Migration, Resilience and Security: Responses to New Inflows of Asylum Seekers and Migrants

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