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Inequalities in Wellbeing in Lebanese Children and Different Refugee Subpopulations: A Multidimensional Child Deprivation Analysis
Background and ObjectivesThis study constitutes the first attempt to describe the overlap** deprivations faced by Lebanese children (Lebanese) and...
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“Hospitality” Delegitimised by International Humanitarianism: When Mayors “Take Back Control” of the Political Economy of Solidarity in Lebanese Municipalities Receiving Displaced Syrians
Since 2011, Lebanon hosts more than a million displaced Syrians fleeing from a devastating civil war. This humanitarian crisis directly questions the...
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Conflicting Futures for Non-conflict Archaeology: A Lebanese Case Study
Governance in Lebanon is dispersed between a central state authority and decentralised local actors, and its approach to the research and management...
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Chapter Six: National Food in the International Context II—Gastronationalism and Populism
Building on “ Chapter Four: Food and Diet in ‘Official’ Nationalism ” and “ Chapter...
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Food and Trauma: Anthropologies of Memory and Postmemory
Much has been written about the multifaceted significance of food and eating from an anthropological perspective; the same can be said about the role...
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Sustaining the Memory of Colonial Algeria Through Food
It is now more than fifty-five years since the French ruled Algeria, but the former French citizens of Algeria, or Pieds-Noirs, still sustain...
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Activists Esca** Lebanon: Disruption, Burnout, and Disengagement
This chapter traces the experience of political activists in Lebanon from protests, social movement formation, revolution, to the current moment of...
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Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Lebanese Citizens Abroad
Lebanon has experienced waves of emigration which has resulted in a substantial diaspora population. Economic difficulties at home and prospects for...
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Divergent experiences of Syrian refugee girls in Tripoli, Lebanon: a cross-sectional analysis to inform response and programming
BackgroundIn prior studies exploring the experiences of Syrian refugee girls in Tripoli, Beqaa, and Beirut, especially in relation to child marriage,...
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Arab Families From the Levant (Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian, Jordanian): Adaptation and Mental Health
The region of the Arab Middle East known as the Levant is located on the continent of southwestern Asia and includes the people of Lebanon, Syria,...
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Home care for COVID-19 positive cases: suitability of the residential setting and ability of cases to adhere to the required preventive measures
IntroductionWith the upsurge of COVID-19 cases, Lebanese hospitals were overburdened and hospital care was prioritized for COVID-19 patients with the...
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Encountering (Un)familiar Places in a Place Affected by Displacement: How Young People Sense the (Un)familiar and How It Affects Their Mental Health
In this chapter, Sender, Nagi and Boutelea argue for an expansion of existing approaches to understanding adolescent mental health in contexts of...
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The “Popular Base” of Islamic Fundamentalist Movements. The Case of Hezbollah in Lebanon
Religious fundamentalist movements have grown steadily around the world in recent decades and have very often attracted popular and disadvantaged...
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Women Feed the World: Biodiversity and Culinary Diversity/Food Security and Food Sovereignty
Drawing on the work of feminist ethnobotanists, this chapter addresses women’s central role in the intimate link between biodiversity and cultural...
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Standing Waves: Remittances as Social Glue in Neo-Diasporic Communities
Some diasporic communities are gaining in significance in the twenty-first century. Their persistent cohesion is explained by digitalization,...
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Languages of Food and Dance in East Kentucky: Gathering ’Round the Table and the Dance Floor
How do the cultural constructs of food and dance inform our understanding of place and community? This chapter examines the East Kentucky Food &...
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Mixing Ethnicity, Pan-Islamism, Sectarian Dimensions, and Transnational Networks: One Century of Muslim Presence in Argentina
Based on multi-sited field work conducted in several communities throughout Argentina over the last two decades, the analysis of newly available...
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An Initial Assessment of Community Values, Rules, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Mount Hermon, Lebanon: Key Perspectives towards Biocultural Conservation
Mount Hermon, Lebanon, has a long history of human occupation reflected in the landscape and ecology that makes biocultural perspectives highly...
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‘Urban-itarian’ Ecologies after Displacement from Syria
Over the last decade, displacement from conflict-ridden Syria has converged with an increasing emphasis on the ‘urban-humanitarian’ nexus....