Rønn, Anne Kirstine (2023) Unity through separation: spatial divisions and intra-movement relations in Lebanon’s October Uprising. Social Movement Studies. ISSN 1474-2837
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Within the field of social movement studies, scholars have devoted increasing attention to how protesters reclaim and organize public spaces. Case studies reveal that protesters often split up larger reclaimed spaces by drawing internal, sometimes invisible, boundaries. So far, however, the subdivision of protest spaces remains an under-theorized phenomenon. Through a case study of Lebanon’s 2019 October Uprising, this article contributes to disentangling how spatial subdivisions emerge and shape relations between protesters. The study relies on fieldwork observations and interviews with 51 protesters from Lebanon’s second-largest city, Tripoli, where the protest space was divided into three main zones, reflecting social, ideological, and tactical fault lines in the city’s uprising. By employing Löw’s concepts of spacing and synthesis, it analyzes how Tripoli’s protesters came to associate these three zones with diverging identities, ideologies, and tactical orientations, while also connecting them together as functional parts of the larger movement. Although the separation of Tripoli’s protest space did not alleviate disagreements and conflicts, the article finds that subdivisions facilitated a thin form of order and helped protesters make sense of their internal differences.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
| Divisions: | Middle East Centre |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2023 15:21 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Apr 2024 19:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/120535 |
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