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- Title
PRISON ET BOÎTE DE NUIT: LE LIBAN POST-CONFLIT À TRAVERS SES LIEUX-FANTÔMES.
- Authors
BONTE, Marie; FOURNIER, Zara
- Abstract
This article investigates the concept of ghost places as a tool for understanding the post-conflict situation in Lebanon. The reflection carried out relies on two field studies: Beirut's nightscape and memory sites in Southern Lebanon. These spaces have experienced many periods of conflicts, of varying duration and intensity. The legacies of these conflicts raise the dual question of incompleteness and resurgence of memory. We question these legacies through the notion of ghost places; which designates places where traces of the past - conflictual or not - haunt the present and modify perceptions and uses of space. Putting two fields of study into perspective first leads us to question the types ghost places, and the modalities of their persistence or production. These ghost places then appear as dissonants, insofar as they refer to a duplication of the temporalities to which they refer. Finally, the use or instrumentalization of these places by various actors, in particular political actors, is analysed via the often diverted process of conjuration. These three registers of analysis (spatialities, dissonances, conjurations) show different modes of appropriation or instrumentalization of ghost places, which are as many means of inhabiting Beirut and Lebanon.
- Publication
Géographie & Cultures, 2018, Issue 106, p75
- ISSN
1165-0354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4000/gc.7341