Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920-1958

ISBN-13: 9781108798396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 232 str.

Huntsville) Baun Dylan (University of Alabama

Opis

A cultural and political history of youth culture and youth-centric organizations in Lebanon from 1920–1958.

Recenzje

'Baun's Winning Lebanon is a useful reminder to judge the past on its own terms, not on the basis of what happened later.' P. Clawson, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The future of young men: the construction and performance of youth politics; 2. Producing space: celebrations of organizational life and death; 3. Broadening the base: the poor, the countryside, women, and abroad; 4. In defense of Lebanon: the non-sectarian causes of the 1958 war; 5. Fighting the punks: the routine practices and sectarian outcomes of the 1958 war; Epilogue: centering youth, remembering and globalizing 1958.