Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut

Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut

<span class="abs_content">This article concerns itself with why and how activists persevere and manage to reproduce themselves as activists in contexts where they experience what is described as routine "failure", taking Lebanon's activist scene as its focus. Drawing o...

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Autor principal: Sophie Chamas
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Publicado: Coordinamento SIBA 2021
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activism
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Political science (General)
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f961bc44f74344fa87f12ea78219facc2021-11-21T15:11:42ZActivism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v14i2p530https://doaj.org/article/f961bc44f74344fa87f12ea78219facc2021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/24245https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">This article concerns itself with why and how activists persevere and manage to reproduce themselves as activists in contexts where they experience what is described as routine "failure", taking Lebanon's activist scene as its focus. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out when Lebanon's civil society was dominated by members of the country's cosmopolitan professional middle class, I emphasise the affective dimensions of activism, the role that personal desires, emotions and anxieties play in enabling activists to persist in the most stagnant of conjunctures but that also, at the same time, keep them from advancing their agendas.</span><br />Sophie ChamasCoordinamento SIBAarticlelebanonactivismaffectclassfailurePolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 14, Iss 2, Pp 530-546 (2021)
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activism
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Political science (General)
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Sophie Chamas
Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut
description <span class="abs_content">This article concerns itself with why and how activists persevere and manage to reproduce themselves as activists in contexts where they experience what is described as routine "failure", taking Lebanon's activist scene as its focus. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out when Lebanon's civil society was dominated by members of the country's cosmopolitan professional middle class, I emphasise the affective dimensions of activism, the role that personal desires, emotions and anxieties play in enabling activists to persist in the most stagnant of conjunctures but that also, at the same time, keep them from advancing their agendas.</span><br />
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title Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut
title_short Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut
title_full Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut
title_fullStr Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut
title_full_unstemmed Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut
title_sort activism as a way of life: the social world of social movements in middle-class beirut
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