{"product_id":"war-is-coming-9780812248869","title":"War Is Coming","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a postwar era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead, a politics of no victor, no vanquished was promoted, in which the political elite agreed simply to consign the war to the past. However, since then, Lebanon has found itself still entangled in various forms of political violence, from car bombings and assassinations to additional outbreaks of armed combat.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWar Is Coming\u003c\/i\u003e, Sami Hermez argues that the country''s political leaders have enabled the continuation of violence and examines how people live between these periods of conflict. What do everyday conversations, practices, and experiences look like during these moments? How do people attempt to find a measure of certainty or stability in such times? Hermez''s ethnographic study of e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWar is Coming\u003c\/i\u003e…offers a rigorous and sophisticated exploration into…expressions and experiences of the everyday, where violence lurks as both eventful and ordinary…[It] presents us with a long-awaited ethnographic account of violence beyond and against ideas of Lebanese exceptionalism…War is Coming opens an interesting debate not only on the ways people experience violence but the kind of life possible in protracted conflict…[It] is insightful, knowledgeable, and ethnographically captivating…Students and researchers curious about ethnography as methodology will find this book thought provoking and useful.\" * Anthropological Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWar is Coming\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent ethnographic account of how life is lived in situations of ongoing political instability and in the aftermath of war. It is also beautifully written, with evocative descriptions of the ethnographic context and how the interviews were conducted. I would recommend this book to anyone interested more generally in postwar memory, but also those seeking to better understand the ways in which ongoing instability and frustration play a part in contemporary Lebanese popular politics.\" * PoLAR *\u003cbr\u003e\"\"\u003ci\u003eWar is Coming\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious ethnographic examination of Lebanon's long history of instability . . . [O]ne of the strongest virtues of \u003ci\u003eWar is Coming\u003c\/i\u003e:[is] in its ethnographic detail and its determination to not impose closure, it embodies the Lebanese experience, and so humanizes people and processes so often dehumanized and caricatured within social scientific literatures on civil wars and the best-practices lingo of the post-conflict reconciliation industry.\" * \u003ci\u003eMIddle East Journal\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply poignant. An eloquently written and altogether fascinating read about how violence is lived in multiple temporal registers in Lebanon, and how both remembering past and anticipating future violence critically shape lived experience in the present.\" * Lara Deeb, Scripps College *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405729440087,"sku":"9780812248869","price":70.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812248869.jpg?v=1730493423","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/war-is-coming-9780812248869","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}