Sextarianism: sovereignty, secularism, a
β Maya Mikdashi
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Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
β Scribed by Maya Mikdashi
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- Stanford University Press
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
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- 288
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- Library
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The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. Together with criminal and civil laws, these laws regulate and produce political difference. But whether women or men, Muslims or Christians, queer or straight, all people in Lebanon have one thing in commonβthey are biopolitical subjects forged through bureaucratic, ideological, and legal techniques of the state.
With this book, Maya Mikdashi offers a new way to understand state power, theorizing how sex, sexuality, and sect shape and are shaped by law, secularism, and sovereignty. Drawing on court archives, public records, and ethnography of the Court of Cassation, the highest civil court in Lebanon, Mikdashi shows how political difference is entangled with religious, secular, and sexual difference. She presents state power as inevitably contingent, like the practices of everyday life it engenders, focusing on the regulation of religious conversion, the curation of legal archives, state and parastatal violence, and secular activism. Sextarianism locates state power in the experiences, transitions, uprisings, and violence that people in the Middle East continue to live.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Introduction. Sextarianism
Chapter 1 Afterlives of a Census: Rethinking State Power and Political Difference
Chapter 2 A Fire in the Archive: History, Ethnography, Multiplicity
Chapter 3 Regulating Conversion: Sovereignty, Bureaucracy, and the Banality of Religion
Chapter 4 Are You Going to Pride? Evangelical Secularism and the Politics of Law
Chapter 5 The Epidermal State: Violence and the Materiality of Power
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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