The Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices from the Revolution

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nDedication\nContents\nList of Figures\nForeword\nAcknowledgments\nNotes on Text and Translation\nChapter 1: Framing the October Uprising in Lebanon: An Unfolding Revolutionary Situation\nPart I: Setting the Stage: Situating the Uprising within the Foundations of the Lebanese Polity, Regional Considerations, and Global Consequences\nChapter 2: Reckoning with the Past: Selected Scenes from the Modern History of Lebanon\nChapter 3: Lebanon’s Postwar Political Economy: From Reconstruction to Collapse\nChapter 4: Wondering about the Social\nChapter 5: Law in Times of Revolution: A Double-Edged Sword of Repression and Resistance\nChapter 6: Filthy Flows of Power: A Political Ecology of Disasters in Lebanon\nChapter 7: “Sectarian Neoliberalism” and the 2019 Uprisings in Lebanon and Iraq\nChapter 8: The Shadow Guardians of the Status Quo: The Lebanon Uprising of 2019 and the International Politics of Counterrevolution\nPart II: Faces of the Revolutionary Uprising: Tactics, Repression, and Alternative Voices and Movements\nChapter 9: How Urban Space Shapes Collective Action: The Lebanon Uprising of 2019\nChapter 10: Alternative Media and Digital Platforms: Empowerment Tools for Civic Engagement\nChapter 11: Lebanon’s Alternative Labor Movement: In between Collapse and Revolutionary Imaginaries\nChapter 12: Appearing as Women\nChapter 13: Clashing with the Patriarchy: The Promise of Potential as Politics\nChapter 14: The Lebanese Uprising through the Eyes of Loyalists\nChapter 15: The Power and Limits of Blocking Roads: How the October Uprising Disrupted Lebanon\nChapter 16: The Different Faces of Counterrevolution and Obstacles for Change in Lebanon\nChapter 17: The Lebanese* Uprising: Revisions from Refugees and Migrants\nChapter 18: Lebanese Diaspora, October 17 Uprising, and Political Transformation in Lebanon\nPart III: Experiencing the Revolution (Thawra): Testimonies and Reflections from the Ground\nChapter 19: The Cycle of Loss: Between Trial and Sabotage\nChapter 20: “A Nation for All”: The Lebanon Uprising and Disability Rights in Lebanon\nChapter 21: A Feminist Revolution Par Excellence\nChapter 22: Student Activism and the October Uprising: We Felt Once More That Everything Is Anew\nChapter 23: Roadblocking, Mass Strike, and the Qantari Collective\nChapter 24: Night of the Banks: Uprising against the Rule of Banks\nChapter 25: The Struggle for the Bisri Valley\nChapter 26: Reconstructing the Uprising in Tripoli: The Revolution that Never Left the Square\nChapter 27: The Mobilization in Baalbeck-Hermel: On the Incomplete Uprising of the First Days and the Dissidents That Carried on Despite Everything\nChapter 28: Experiencing the Uprising in the Chouf and Aley Region\nChapter 29: Reflections from Two Revolutions: From the Ignition of the Tunisian Revolt to the Lebanon Uprising\nChapter 30: From Syria to Lebanon: We Felt Again That Everything Is New\nAfterword: How to Speak Up about a Revolution: A Case Study\nList of Contributors\nIndex