The urbicide of Beirut? Geopolitics and the built environment in the Lebanese civil war (1975–1976)

Fregonese, Sara

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2009.07.005

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“…Subsumed under the term 'urban geopolitics' this literature has directed attention not only to the targeting of civilians living within urban environments, but also to the deliberate targeting and destruction of cities as a military objective: urbicide. Urbicide, on the one hand, entails the deliberate annihilation (killing) of the material, built environment (Coward, 2004(Coward, , 2008Fregonese, 2009Fregonese, , 2012Hewitt, 2009;Ramadan, 2009). Here, violence directed toward cities should not be viewed as 'secondary' or 'collateral' to the targeting of civilians and military personnel; rather, the violence must be seen as a practice of intentional annihilation of the cities themselves (Hewitt, 2009).…”

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War and Terrorism, Geography of

Tyner

Henkin

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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War and Terrorism, Geography of

Tyner

Henkin

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…Considering the site/event nexus requires a relaxation of the theoretical assumptions, and the adoption of a sociohistorical approach that emphasises the importance of contextuality and favours the production of 'thick descriptions' of the reality observed-on the model of Bent Flyvbjerg's 'Foucauldian case studies' (Flyvbjerg, 2001(Flyvbjerg, , 2006, Bruno Latour's 'mapping of controversies' (Latour, 2005;Venturini, 2010)-with an emphasis on case study analysis (Castells, 1983) and ethnographic tools (Fregonese, 2009;Till, 2012). At the same time, the researcher's task should not be to look for the 'cause' of the Arab Spring, for a general definition or explanation of the phenomenon itself-the same flaw relevant to much of the literature on 'Islam' or 'civil society'.…”

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Rethinking Cities in Contentious Times: The Mobilisation of Urban Dissent in the ‘Arab Spring’

Allegra¹,

Bono²,

Rokem³

et al. 2013

Urban Studies

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Throughout history, cities have been the theatre of social and spatial struggles. The issue of urban protests, however, has not yet been investigated in detail in the light of the growing concern of the need to rethink urban studies, from theoretical and epistemic assumptions, to methodological issues. It is argued that the mobilisation of urban dissent in the so-called Arab Spring offers a good opportunity to develop a critical approach based on the observation of the nexus between an event (a punctual expression of dissent) and a site (the urban environment in which the former takes place). The goal is to avoid theoretical rigidities inherent to the assumptions about the intrinsic qualities of cities or social movements. The paper also aims at connecting different academic and disciplinary traditions across linguistic dividesand especially the Anglophone urban studies with the Francophone stream of cityfocused political science and political sociology.

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“…I further locate the paper within the recent discussion concerning the thanatopolitical rationalities of military‐related killing. Although geographers have recently addressed the questions of mortality, death and finitude (eg Joronen ; Romanillos ) and focused on different forms of military‐related violence and destruction from several angles (Belcher ; Fregonese ; Hannah ; Hyndman ; Shaw ), thanatopolitics has received relatively limited attention (see Murray ; Tyner ), especially if compared with the quite established corpus of literature related to its counterpart, biopolitics (eg Braun ; Hannah ).…”

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“Death comes knocking on the roof”: Thanatopolitics of Ethical Killing During Operation Protective Edge in Gaza

Joronen

2015

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One of the controversies of Operation Protective Edge, which Israel launched in Gaza in July 2014, is the undepreciated gap between the high number of civilian casualties and the claim of an ethically sound military operation with an extraordinary effort put on minimizing collateral damage. This paper examines one of the cornerstones of the Israel Defence Forces' ethically polished military violence during the operation: the use of preventive warning techniques. By focusing on the technique of “roof knocking”, the paper argues that the ethical justification operates through the three thanatopolitical governmentalities: responsibilization of the subjects, reification of the targeted sites, and the calculative politics of doing “the minimum evil necessary”. The Gaza population are hence not considered as passive victims, merely subjected to the killing power of calculative thanatopolitics, but as an inversion of biopolitical subjects who, instead of improving their own individual capabilities, are made accountable for their own deaths.

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The urbicide of Beirut? Geopolitics and the built environment in the Lebanese civil war (1975–1976)

Cited by 80 publications

References 15 publications

War and Terrorism, Geography of

War and Terrorism, Geography of

Rethinking Cities in Contentious Times: The Mobilisation of Urban Dissent in the ‘Arab Spring’

“Death comes knocking on the roof”: Thanatopolitics of Ethical Killing During Operation Protective Edge in Gaza

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