Elite Strategies, Civil Society, and Sectarian Identities in Postwar Lebanon
This article explains the endurance of sectarian identities and modes of political mobilization in Lebanon after the civil war. This is done by examining three case studies that demonstrate a recursive relation between sectarian elites and civil society actors: on one side of this relation, sectaria...
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| author | Salloukh, Bassel |
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| dc.date.none.fl_str_mv | 2013 2015-11-05T12:44:52Z 2015-11-05T12:44:52Z 2015-11-05 |
| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | 0020-7438 http://hdl.handle.net/10725/2441 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020743813000883 Clark, J. A., & Salloukh, B. F. (2013). Elite strategies, civil society, and sectarian identities in postwar Lebanon. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 45(04), 731-749. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9044724&fileId=S0020743813000883 |
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| description | This article explains the endurance of sectarian identities and modes of political mobilization in Lebanon after the civil war. This is done by examining three case studies that demonstrate a recursive relation between sectarian elites and civil society actors: on one side of this relation, sectarian elites pursue their political and socioeconomic interests at the expense of civil society organizations (CSOs); on the other side, civil society actors instrumentalize the sectarian political system and its resources to advance their own organizational or personal advantage. These mutually reinforcing dynamics enable sectarian elites to penetrate, besiege, or co-opt CSOs as well as to extend their clientelist networks to CSOs that should otherwise lead the effort to establish cross-sectarian ties and modes of political mobilization or that expressly seek to challenge the sectarian system. The article fills a gap in the literature on sectarianism in postwar Lebanon and helps explain a puzzle identified by Ashutosh Varshney in the theoretical debate on ethnic conflict, namely the reasons behind the “stickiness” of historically constructed ethnic identities. |
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| spelling | Elite Strategies, Civil Society, and Sectarian Identities in Postwar LebanonSalloukh, BasselClark, JanineThis article explains the endurance of sectarian identities and modes of political mobilization in Lebanon after the civil war. This is done by examining three case studies that demonstrate a recursive relation between sectarian elites and civil society actors: on one side of this relation, sectarian elites pursue their political and socioeconomic interests at the expense of civil society organizations (CSOs); on the other side, civil society actors instrumentalize the sectarian political system and its resources to advance their own organizational or personal advantage. These mutually reinforcing dynamics enable sectarian elites to penetrate, besiege, or co-opt CSOs as well as to extend their clientelist networks to CSOs that should otherwise lead the effort to establish cross-sectarian ties and modes of political mobilization or that expressly seek to challenge the sectarian system. The article fills a gap in the literature on sectarianism in postwar Lebanon and helps explain a puzzle identified by Ashutosh Varshney in the theoretical debate on ethnic conflict, namely the reasons behind the “stickiness” of historically constructed ethnic identities.PublishedN/A2015-11-05T12:44:52Z2015-11-05T12:44:52Z20132015-11-05Articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article0020-7438http://hdl.handle.net/10725/2441http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020743813000883Clark, J. A., & Salloukh, B. F. (2013). Elite strategies, civil society, and sectarian identities in postwar Lebanon. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 45(04), 731-749.http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9044724&fileId=S0020743813000883enInternational Journal of Middle East Studiesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/24412016-07-27T05:37:23Z |
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| title_full | Elite Strategies, Civil Society, and Sectarian Identities in Postwar Lebanon |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Elite Strategies, Civil Society, and Sectarian Identities in Postwar Lebanon |
| title_short | Elite Strategies, Civil Society, and Sectarian Identities in Postwar Lebanon |
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