Deploying a critical juncture agency approach, this paper undertakes a genealogy of the
adoption of consociationalism at colonial state formation in Lebanon to compare different …

For over four centuries, Lebanon was shackled to the Ottoman Empire, whose later decline
was described by nineteenth-century commentators as the “Sick Man of Europe.” This …

The goal of this bibliometric analysis is to summarize publications on the contributions of a
higher education university in arts, humanities, and social sciences and evaluate their …

Divided cities have attracted mounting scholarly attention. Yet, while the focus has largely
been on how divisions are constructed, we examine the potentiality of waves of non …

While research has indicated a significant role for social capital in building resilience to
disaster, this relationship is more problematic in the aftermath of civil war. Social capital in …

How and why do civil society organisations (CSOs) engage with service delivery and with
what consequences for political change in conflict-affected contexts? Most existing work in …

This paper grapples with the impact of the postwar consociational system in Lebanon on the
articulation and organization of political opposition, focusing on the period between 2011 …

The Lebanese Revolution (2019) made two forms of LGBTQ activism visible. While Helem
(2004–present), the first and the most renowned LGBT organization in Lebanon and the …

Divided cities are characterised by intergroup contestation over the wider issue of state
legitimacy. Violent conflict has left a legacy of segregation, weak public services and …

This article adopts a structural, class-based and a political economy approach to the October
17 2019 Revolution in Lebanon inspired by David Harvey's reading of neoliberalism, class …